While some of you may have seen this before, a shocking number of users appear to not understand that we have this wonderful device.
It can allow a user to look at the things mods and admins have to remove; and if you were ever to wonder why you keep seeing users, mods, and admins leave due to transphobia, you could pursue through it to see what they're talking about.
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The exact wording was "cissies throw a fit" to list of various policy changes. Maybe that was the subtext of the post, but not everyone is going to read it that way, and I certainly didn't, but maybe that's on me.
I was banned for that post, and mods deleted my userunion post as well so I'll put it here:
My point wasn’t that people shouldn’t be mocked for being cis or whatever, I don’t give a shit and I’m certainly not offended by it. My point was that banning people unnecessarily (e.g. that night of drunken bans) and framing opposition to some of policies/questionable banning as transphobia (or in ways that could be easily misinterpreted) could be giving some folks the wrong impression that that’s the transphobia that people are facing rather than the virulent shit you see in the modlogs. I get that the mods have a lot of shit to deal with, deal with a lot of bad faith actors, etc. but I also think the optics of people getting banned for disagreeing with mods aren't helping with folks who are not sure what is going on, and I also think some folks are very quick to assume anyone that was banned or questions bans must've been a cis dude and a transphobe, which again, I don't know is helping for the users who are here in good faith. But maybe the mods/userbase have made a decision that it's more important our trans comrades have a safe space than the people that get banned not thinking it's fair. That's fine, I accept that.
Anyways, wading into this discussion got me banned and labeled cis and a transphobe. That doesn't feel great, but if that's how the community sees me, I'm not sure what to say. I wanted to elaborate because I felt like my post was misunderstood but I'll be taking my leave now and the admins can delete this post if they think it doesn't belong here.
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Again, I wasn't offended by the wording. Clearly my posts are coming off as grandstanding about language that is "offensive" to cis people or trying to minimize the very real transphobia on this site. That's not what I'm trying to say at all.
The only reason I quoted the exact passage was to say that I didn't read that as "nobody understands WHY they enacted the policy," which again, is maybe my problem, but I don't even care to get that bogged down over the language of that particular post. My point was that if the mods are banning people for questionable reasons and that's what you're seeing filling up userunion and sometimes even main or general threads, and you are also seeing some general sentiment about how people getting banned are transphobes and the people who are complaining are transphobes, you might be confused about what is actually happening behind the scenes. It's not on our trans comrades to be expected to educate folks on the harassment they receive, I'm just saying that the optics of some of the bans that are going on are not really helping things and I think it's contributing to the drama which in turn is contributing to the unwelcoming atmosphere on the site... which got me banned and labelled a cis transphobe. :/