And apparently, also when you think that ‘They’ is a perfectly serviceable gender-neutral singular pronoun, but are willing to use other pronouns if asked to.

EDIT: Other removable offenses on Blahaj now include questioning mod/admin decisions and quoting the modlog as a reason why you’re leaving.

  • @PugJesusOP
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    158 days ago

    Literally all genders are made up

    Gravity is just made up too. Doesn’t mean I’m going to take someone preaching intelligent falling seriously.

    why are you getting so bent outta shape over a totally reasonable rule just because one person who stands to benefit from it is kinda annoying???

    Look, if you want to have your fantasy roleplay where dragonfucker is a gender, that’s on you. Like I said in the message I was removed for, I’m no longer participating in Blahaj. You have fun with your faeries and dragons.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 days ago

      You don’t get to complain about other people trolling when you are being this deliberately obtuse.

      Gravity is in the most literal sense a force of nature. It has had measurable effects since pretty much the dawn of time. Gender is a social construct. The only effects it has on the world around us is that which we as a society allow it to, and in the absence of any people who believe in such a concept it would cease to exist in any meaningful sense.

      Nobody is sincerely claiming that dragons, as in the mythological creatures, actually exist in material reality. By adopting dragonfucker/rider as a gender identity, drag is aligning with the concept of them in some kinda nebulous social sense I’m not gonna pretend to understand.

      Maybe drag’s trolling about it, but to be honest, I really couldn’t give a shit about the specifics of Dragon Rider’s identity one way or the other because I think drag’s an insufferable shit-stirrer. What really pisses me off here though is that you’ve actually made me care about this because in spending all day bitching about how drag’s a shit-stirring troll, you have engaged in precisely the behaviour that can make drag such a… drag.

      • @[email protected]
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        88 days ago

        “Gravity is just made up too.”

        I apologize profusely for taking this argument seriously. The internet was a mistake; turn it off and leave it unplugged 😭

        • @PugJesusOP
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          18 days ago

          “Gravity is just made up too.”

          Yes, it’s made up, just like the entire concept of physics and species are as well. Science is a social construct. That doesn’t mean it has no relation to reality.

            • @PugJesusOP
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              might as well take a blowtorch to the wires while we’re at it

              Sorry that invalidating gender as ‘made-up’ with the implication that it has no relation to reality is such an acceptable concept to you.

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                  when asked to respect pronouns of a likely troll, says “no ❤️ in fact people should be allowed to misgender them”

                  Please, quote me saying anything about disrespecting drag’s pronouns.

                  and compares the observation of gravity to gendered language

                  To gender itself. Fuck’s sake, did you not read this conversation you’re jumping into?

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                    nah. change of pace. go listen to trans people. go to the c/main post and see all the trans people being happy their identities aren’t going to be subject to harrassment just because there are imperfect and annoying people out there with fantastical pronouns. maybe understand for half a second that this was never about drag, or you, or gravity, but the endless onslaught of attacks trans people face and how Ada is working to make a space where that doesn’t happen. then perhaps understand that, instead of celebrating the protection of hundreds of trans people, you centered a single trans person and yourself and immediately began to continue the same behavior which Ada sought to prevent.

      • @PugJesusOP
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        Gravity is in the most literal sense a force of nature. It has had measurable effects since pretty much the dawn of time.

        Gravity is just a made-up word applied to a made-up concept used by human beings to understand the universe around them in terms they find palatable.

        Like gender.

        Gender is a social construct. The only effects it has on the world around us is that which we as a society allow it to, and in the absence of any people who believe in such a concept it would cease to exist in any meaningful sense.

        Gender labels are social constructs, just like the concept of gravity is a social construct. Gender is an extremely complex phenomenon with biological roots. Trans folk don’t just get HRT for funsies.