The prominent user who left recently made me realize that while this place is a lot less full of bigotry than reddit, that is a low fucking bar.
What are concrete steps users and mods can take to make this a more welcoming space? I'm assuming the majority of the bigotry is coming from inside the house, bar the occasional raid.
Banning shitstains is good and all, but that is only a part of community management. How do we proactively create a better user culture here? How do we better establish norms of behavior?
One thing that stood out among the concerns was the misogyny, and cis-white dudebroism. I know that we engage in a lot of deliberate irony-poisoned gross-out humor (such as the Sandy Cheeks giantess cock vore in the anti-V*sh pasta), and I can absolutely see how that would come off as abhorrent. Cum jokes are rampant. Scatologial humor, usually directed at genuine scumbags, make no mistake, abounds. A lot of what we do tends to be a monkey-see, monkey-do of the Hosts' own twitter behavior with what they like and RT on media, which is pretty fucking reactionary at times, not gonna lie. This sort of culminates in me wondering if I have, even unwittingly, engaged in such behavior here to the point that it seriously hurt another user, to the point of considering leaving.
I'm genuinely at a loss about potential suggestions because I'm really not a "solutions" person.
Lots of the stuff is baked in and means relearning basically how to talk about stuff. Something as simple as "hey dudes" can be problematic in a given context. Not great at it myself, for sure
Fuck. That's stopped now, right?
Haven't seen it in a while, I honestly thought it was revisionism at first.