Comment on Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months agoI mean, it’s unverifiable and unenforceable. Personally, I wouldn’t sign up for anything that requires identifying myself like that. I can just loom at someone’s comment history to see if they’re strongly pro or anti tolerance. As it stands, this has as much value as as North Korea calling themselves democratic.
leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Unverifiable maybe, unenforceable, no. They simply ban anyone who refuses.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What if I just lie?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The point is not to make you reveal your gender, but to make you explicitly choose a gender, thus normalising the idea that gender should not be assumed. Transphobes will object to this and get banned. At least, that’s the theory.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just default to gender neutral terms if context clues don’t suggest a specific one.
Just make a rule that transphobes and other bigots will be banned like everyone else.