A screenshot from Back To The Future. Doc has Marty and his girlfriend in the car, and is saying “GUI? Where we’re going, we don’t need GUI!”
A screenshot from Back To The Future. Doc has Marty and his girlfriend in the car, and is saying “GUI? Where we’re going, we don’t need GUI!”
I think anyone reading this can gather that I’m referring to this “drag” nonsense. Not for one second has anyone believed you go around IRL requiring people to call you “drag”. It’s blatantly obvious that you’re just trolling because you think you can get away with it.
Drag doesn’t require anyone to use drag’s preferred pronouns, online or in meatspace. But drag’s fiance @[email protected] does gender drag correctly and so do drag’s friends.
Yeah this is what no one believes
Welcome to drag, been seeing drag on lemmy for a while now so I just accept drag to use the internet as drag likes, making memes and talking in the third person
Except that they’ve co-opted a practice of trans people who are genuinely trying to be true to their inner selves. Instead of doing that, they make a mockery out of it because most people are too afraid to call them out on the “drag” thing being a bullshit troll campaign.
Oh I never really thought about it. I thought they just like dragons a lot and were playing a weird internet persona
If it is a bullshit troll campaign then it’s obviously designed to get people fed up about pronouns and sow discord. The intention is for more people to decide they don’t care about “this stupid neo pronoun bullshit” and for each person that gets fed up about this, trans inclusivity falls in the community.
If it is not a bullshit troll campaign then it isn’t any weirder than other folks I’ve seen before on the internet. Furries and/or otherkin and/or whatever. I might not understand it, but I’m not about to come out here and tell them their self expression is incorrect. Frankly it’s none of my fuckin’ business. Doesn’t hurt me any one way or the other and it might make someone else happy.
So with that as my perspective, I’m just going in whole hog on absolutely respecting the shit out of this, because if they are a troll then they’ll almost certainly get tired of this eventually, and if they aren’t, then I don’t give half a damn what you want to call yourself. Especially if you don’t make a scene when people don’t comply. I’ve never seen Drag make a scene about other people’s choice of what to call them, I’ve only ever seen other people raise questions about how Drag refers to themself.
So, yeah. Do I think it’s a little weird? Sure, it is. Is it harmful? Nah, not really. The only harmful part I’m seeing is how six people want to interrogate them about it every time Drag makes a post about anything and it always overtakes the comment section. It’s attention seeking behavior, sure, but it isn’t harmful to anyone, that I can see.
You just outlined an insidious possibility that hurts people and then kind of skated past that, as if because you can’t prove it, it’s not real.
That possibility is near certainty to me. It makes them happy to see people annoyed and undermine people they don’t like. That’s all that is. And that’s nothing to defend.
Point taken I guess. Personally I didn’t view this as some insidious plan, I just kind of assumed the internet is full of wacky folks. Which it definitely is. I like to be inclusive of all who return the favor and personally I’ve never had any sort of beef with Drag before in our limited interactions.
But then again I am not a moderator or admin so my opinion means very little.