Edit: Don’t just downvote and run away, make your liberalism known. If you have an issue with either of these, please let them be known in the comments. C'mon, let's duke it out. :)

For the libs shouting "but muh anonymity", you should have zero issue using the "any pronoun" tag as you will be addressed with any pronouns regardless of whether or not you have it set. The point of having them sitewide is for everyone to use them to normalize explicitly stating one's pronouns as a means of not forcing trans people to request to be addressed with basic respect. The amount of pushback on a meaningful step toward trans inclusivity in this community is pretty fucking disheartening, not gonna lie.

Folks seem to be using the NSFW tag for the spoiler effect on memes, and while it's a funny use of it, it's causing the intended use of the NSFW tag to lose its value. This isn't r/WatchPeopleDie. Personally, I was exposed to that sort of content at a younger age and am desensitized to it now, but not everyone is like me in that regard and I'm probably more fucked up than I like to think for having been as exposed to it as I was. We currently don't have another way of tagging content, so please be considerate and put "[NSFL]" or content warnings in the title so people know they'll be looking at some heavy shit. Not a lot to ask. Please do not start ironically putting "[NSFL]" or other content warnings in the post title. You're more creative than that, I promise.

  • kushtot [none/use name]
    22·
    4 years ago

    Fuck this lib shit. Friday, after my 10 hour shift working the line in a factory packing fucking beer, someone told me I wasn't pleasant enough, and that my tired and neglected demeanor gave the space we were in an 'unsafe feel' and could be interpreted as 'politically hostile' (insinuating, in this context, that I was probably racist and sexist, just because I did not smile enough at the woke artist after my shift ). She was clearly disheartened by my amount of pushback against this attempt at opening my eyes to all the oppression my sad overworked ass was creating in the world. Stop with your fucking guilt trips posing as politics. This is empty calvinist bullshit.

    • mall_goth420 [they/them]
      2·
      4 years ago

      Great job on describing a totally different situation to justify your weird opposition to a simple fucking thing

        • mall_goth420 [they/them]
          ·
          4 years ago

          good point, it's easy to get heated about things and maybe I should take few minutes to cool off too before I go angry typing at my comrades 😪

    • Melon [she/her,they/them]
      1·
      4 years ago

      it's not productive to see things on an individual basis all the time. It's more than just you :3

      But in seriousness, what will probably help is changing how you approach social justice issues. It's not about the fight, it's about the liberation that is possible. Wouldn't it be nice if race/gender/etc. wasn't ever a social issue because the toxic underpinnings that led to such constructs all vanished? A body with fewer organs would be nice. Getting to that place involves acknowledgement, not avoidance. And it can be as simple as removing stigma around identifying pronouns :)