Edit: Don’t just downvote and run away, make your liberalism known. If you have an issue with either of these, please let them be known in the comments. C'mon, let's duke it out. :)

For the libs shouting "but muh anonymity", you should have zero issue using the "any pronoun" tag as you will be addressed with any pronouns regardless of whether or not you have it set. The point of having them sitewide is for everyone to use them to normalize explicitly stating one's pronouns as a means of not forcing trans people to request to be addressed with basic respect. The amount of pushback on a meaningful step toward trans inclusivity in this community is pretty fucking disheartening, not gonna lie.

Folks seem to be using the NSFW tag for the spoiler effect on memes, and while it's a funny use of it, it's causing the intended use of the NSFW tag to lose its value. This isn't r/WatchPeopleDie. Personally, I was exposed to that sort of content at a younger age and am desensitized to it now, but not everyone is like me in that regard and I'm probably more fucked up than I like to think for having been as exposed to it as I was. We currently don't have another way of tagging content, so please be considerate and put "[NSFL]" or content warnings in the title so people know they'll be looking at some heavy shit. Not a lot to ask. Please do not start ironically putting "[NSFL]" or other content warnings in the post title. You're more creative than that, I promise.

  • Abraxiel
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    4 years ago

    Probably the easiest way to achieve the goal of pronoun display with the fewest people getting upset because they're being told what to do.

      • the_river_cass [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I think that's the part that gets to me. "hey do this or you're a lib" is a personal attack that people are comparing to all kinds of shit. am I going foggy or is "you're a lib" one of the standard responses to people on this site?

        I'm kind of glad we didn't have the default and this happened. would have sucked to be blindsided by more serious transphobia later on while continuing to believe this place was the same as a couple of months ago (full-throatedly and unanimously in support of trans people).