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.
If it was a legitimate removal, for the sake of the argument, is removing someone quoting the modlog as reason why they’re leaving itself also gatekeeping? And the other two comments of mine that were removed for gatekeeping?
Again, my problem isn’t in pronoun usage being enforced. It’s that additionally, Ada seems to regard any denial that ‘dragonfucker’ is a gender as gatekeeping, and I’m not eager to stick around for that particular path. Principles rarely benefit from being applied without limitation.
“I’m leaving Blahaj but I’m sad” turned to “I’m leaving Blahaj but I’m sad and mildly irritated” when Ada removed my comments for gatekeeping, to “I’m glad I’m leaving Blahaj” when numerous people showed up here to accuse me of transphobia and a dozen other different things explicitly over the case of doubting whether dragonfucker was a gender.
Glory of the Fediverse, right? See you around!
I think it’s disappointing how many people have suddenly jumped to conclusions that you’re somehow a transphobe over all of this. It’s like they were waiting for an opportunity to jump on somebody and attack them. Drag is so obviously a troll that I find it sad that Blahaj is bending over backwards to defend them and damaging their credibility, and that a community supposedly based on kindness and acceptance is being so vitriolic towards you because of this. I’m sure Drag loves the drama this has all caused.
Me too. I don’t think Pug’s a transphobe, but I also don’t think Pug understands the scale of the harassment trans people face on a daily basis. Like it’s so bad the users would rather just have potential trolls ignored and downvoted than to see well meaning cis people come in and do vigilante justice.
That empathetic disconnect looks like transphobia to some users. I don’t think the users are right, but I understand how they reached that conclusion, especially with Pug’s days-long soapbox about how despotic Ada is.
I see that you, also, are misconceiving what the purpose of Ada’s decision. It’s not about protecting drag, it’s about protecting everyone by not letting people be judge, jury, and executioner in the comments.