Looks like my account was banned/restricted for the above interaction, have
already sent the mods on world an email asking if they'd be willing to reverse
that. Had an episode of psychosis a few months ago where I did say some
offensive stuff, (understandably) got a 3 month ban on .lol for that, so could
see my account having been flagged. I uh, I don’t think it’s reasonable to
expect people to check others profiles to ensure we are correctly pronouning
them… when making a throw away comment that is less than 10 words involving a
ludicrously common saying. Jerboa does not show users pronouns. I could switch
to an app that DOES show the pronouns, do any Lemmings have a recommendation for
a free Lemmy mobile app that has that feature? Edit: Edie chimed in, Jerboa does
show pronouns. It's a formatting issue with mobile vs browser (She has them on
individual text lines so they don't appear on mobile). Was just going to respond
to the user in question to let them know I wasn't purposefully trying to offend
that individual, to discover I'm not able to post or make comments on world now,
so figured I'd see what y'alls opinion on the matter is.
But on Lemmy I'm fairly certain the demographic is at least 80% male in the same way there's an over-representation of Linux users. If you assume a user is male you're going to be right the vast majority of the time. It's not sexism it's statistically a reasonable guess.
I didn't say or imply anything about behavior. Just that merely having the assumption is not sexist. I didn't even say people should have that assumption, just that it's statistically reasonable which it is. Your comment here does more to chase people away than what I said. Now I see why a lot of people block hexbear.
Just stop using gender specific pronouns at all. Makes things much simpler
Know what else makes things much simpler?