Drama is when your friend starts talking to your crush behind your back or spreads rumors and shit. People being attacked and belittled for the way they are and their accompannying struggles is not "drama," its bigotry and it could literally turn this site into some kind of stupidpol or redscare fucking cesspool or much worse.
If you dont wanna stick your nose in any of these issues, thats ok, but just dont minimize the struggles of trans peoples. Literally pretending none of this is happening would be more constructive than punching down on people who just want to be treated with respect and have their voices heard. But ideally, please be a true ally and try to activelly push back against transphobia.
Just felt like i had to get that off my back, thanks my sexy commie comrades :heart-sickle: .
Well said!
I've stupidly used the word drama to describe it, but what I really meant was the people who think the mods have been heavy handed. It's a fucking message board, these measures are not a big deal. Just let the transphobes deal with heavy handed banning, let's sacrifice our "tolerance for transphobes" to instead make it a good place for trans comrades. The damage might have been done already though.
:trans-hammer-sickle:
Also to add, I'm cis so it's unlikely but not outside the realm of possibility that I'd at some point unknowingly say some transphobic shit. But if I got banned I wouldn't be fucking whining about it, I'd just feel bad and possibly grateful to have learned that what I said hurt someone - just so it won't happen again, on here or IRL.
You're reaction to what I had to say should serve as an example to anyone in a similar boat. Of course us Cissies are gonna say shit that's just straight up wrong some of the time, our brains have been inundated with all of this reactionary American propaganda and social conditioning since birth so there's naturally going to be some latent layers of transphobia and bigotry within, what matters is that people are ever vigilant of these blind spots and put forth the extra effort to listen to the voices of marginalized groups and do the little things to help said people feel respected and heard.
You have responded perfectly in this respect! Upon hearing my reasoning, you looked inside and made the conscious decision to modify your behavior and outlook to accommodate the needs of our trans comrades, and that's based as fuck my dude.
See people: all you have to do is be like @grisbajskulor . Its that simple, you don't have to perform some kind of insane liberal self-flagellation and build a fucking light-blue and pink alter (though that might be cool I guess), contrary to whatever all of these reactionary fucking stupidpol redscare shitfucks would have you believe. All you have to do is take 2 seconds out of your day to make a small decision to be better, and internalize it.
We can do this Chapo, I believe in yall! :heart-sickle: :stalin-heart:
Yeah that's the only drama that I'm actually kind of fed up with. First they came for the transphobes, and I kept out of it because fuck those people. Some people seem to have a tendency to go all slippery slope on these things happening. In reality, there is no slope. Just a pothole in the road that the mods are trying to fix.
First they came from the transphobes...
Yeah, good, ok. :yes:
and then they didn't come for me because I wasn't being a dipshit online :pog-dolphin: