• happybadger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Someone stop these Romans!", I yell as I crucify myself beside a highway to prove that I am history's greatest victim.

    I don't get the threat with pronoun listing. If I wanted to be anonymous, selecting "any" would be better for infosec because it's ambiguous. Selecting the wrong pronouns would be even smarter. It's a better system than reddit for that. How can someone be so fragile that the feature even registers for them as some sort of oppression? How dainty do you have to be to hide behind billionaires and fascist nofappers because someone referred to you as the pronouns they'd probably call you anyway? You're going to wage war to preserve WeStErN CiViLiSaTiOn but can't handle someone labeling you as the right branch or rank?

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      If I wanted to be anonymous, selecting “any” would be better for infosec because it’s ambiguous.

      Or, you know, you can always just lie. I don't get why people forget how to do that on the internet.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        If I'm on an account where infosec is a concern, I'm a madlib any time I refer to myself or mention some personal detail where the same message could be conveyed with the nouns swapped out. It's generally pretty easy to figure out gender from how someone writes or where they post so it's just one more thing for people to read into if they're monitoring you for some reason.