Wow Taylor Swift really is just like Deng, you weren’t kidding.

okay I’m sold, Taylor Swift is obviously a gay communist.

voice of a generation

if microplastics are forever does that mean if i eat enough of them i won’t need hrt anymorr

I think like a lot of trolls, DroneRights honed in on something legitimate (ableist language) and then used it to be an asshole. That’s part of why it’s good to have these convos proactively so we can identify areas to improve before they can be used as wedges.

It's kind of mean, but god damn I've only got so much time in the fucking day jc, we're already on the bleeding edge of societal views

Honestly I don’t even think it’s mean, you just have boundaries and standards for how people need to treat you if they want you to stick around.

I’ve been there too lol

blursed

is this a bit or do you like desantis for some reason

okay this is accurate tho

:jarjar-sicko:

oh damn maybe we shouldn’t have done sanctions against our largest trade partner lol

I am going to try not to be snarky and believe you are acting in good faith. OP has a very new account (less than a month), so probably hasn’t seen the absolute dogshit monsoon of bad faith transphobes.

I also saw you mentioned you were cis. By insisting that DroneRights wasn’t transphobic and instead just misunderstood, you need to understand that you’re actively talking over ND trans people who identified what was going on there.

I tried to give DroneRights a chance and even kinda saw what it meant by criticizing the use of narcissism. Shit-ass way to open with a new group of people, but okay, whatever, that can happen. It kept going though and aside from being pretty shitty to other people, it also kept dropping transphobic dog whistles.

With that said, I’m not willing to entertain any argument that centers the feelings of a transphobe over those of trans and ND people.

I really think you should stop trying to defend that account OP. It makes it hard to take you sincerely when I feel like you’re more concerned with defending a troll you’ve mistaken for a martyr than collaborating with everyone on ways to make the site better for ND people.

Seconding this to say I love /gen and use it in some autistic communities I am a part of. Emoji really do work pretty well as tone indicators though, like Anarchist said.

i wrote this effortpost at 4 am on adderal

respectfully, I can tell. I get writing when you feel inspired, but maybe edit it when you’re rested. This post was really hard to follow. /gen

yeah, sorry, I’m not going to assume that someone is here in good faith when their first interaction with everyone is trying to start an argument. 9/10 that account is going to be a troll.

this is also how I feel about it. banning DroneRights was good moderation.

it’s giving “her pronouns are they/them” tbh

But can we, for the sake of ND users, consider the possibility that DroneRights is infact who it says it is

as an autistic trans woman I do not want anyone taking a transphobic and enbyphobic troll at face-value on my behalf. thanks but no thanks.

regardless it was banned for being transphobic. the response post you linked to is talking about something entirely offtopic from what got DroneRights banned.