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This 'struggle session' has cut open a sore of cisnormativity which allows plausible deniability of transphobic action and thought. It's senseless and insensitive to push back against what should be a non-issue. Cis and trans alike, set your pronouns so as to normalize an aspect of trans inclusion that goes some way to dispel cishet patriarchal norms assumed default by almost every space, especially online.

There is no excuse (that hasn't been considered and discussed and where applicable, taken on board) to push back against this as we as a community have. We can (and should) do better.

  • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
    8·
    4 years ago

    Me? I haven't typed that phrase once on this site, you're likely thinking of someone else.

    It's not moral policing, it's needless effort directed toward people who stand beside you instead of at actual people that you should be focused on combating.

    This weird grandstanding by a moderator abusing the power to pin posts for a week now has been frustrating. Its only function is to provoke people, that's why she keeps phrasing shit so aggressively towards user accounts with a default blank option.

      • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
        12·
        4 years ago

        "Moral policing" and "performative sensitivity" are in no way the same.

        This bullshit over yelling at users to set flair as if that's in any way solving something is dumb and performative, in turn with pinning that to the top, which is to be expected from someone who chose the name "transcomrade" as if they are any moreso than others here. Who are you preaching to, we're all here for that reason too.

          • Redcloak [none/use name]
            11·
            4 years ago

            That's not an issue of them not being the exact same phrasing. Those two terms mean completely different things. Take the L.

                • the_river_cass [she/her]
                  3·
                  4 years ago

                  the first means "this is inconsequential and this user is forcing it on me anyway" the second means "this is inconsequential and this user is being dishonest about their intentions". is that difference really salient?

                  • Redcloak [none/use name]
                    9·
                    4 years ago

                    Moral police do not consider the actions they are policing to be "inconsequential". That is why they bother policing them, because they consider them to be the exact opposite of inconsequential.

                    I understand that you're extremely nettled about something but can you not try to nakedly gaslight us about words in the English language?

                    • the_river_cass [she/her]
                      2·
                      4 years ago

                      you're misreading what I'm saying. the user calling it moral policing believes it to be too inconsequential to deserve the force that's being applied. you wouldn't call opposition to murder "moral policing", right?

                  • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
                    8·
                    4 years ago

                    You are doing the debate club thing, you literally started this with exact quotes about repeated phrasing of some term you took offense to that you invented.