Comment on Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoThe 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.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
And how do the mods find the transphobes to ban them? They’ll have to wait for an argument to happen and someone to complain about it. Waste of everyone’s time. This way transphobes will get triggered when they try to sign up, throw a tantrum, and get banned. That’s the plan; I have no idea whether it works in practice.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, that’s how moderation works.
I don’t think as many transphobes have a problem with identifying as their birth gender as you think. Also does nothing you stop the bad actors and concern trolling. Might as well have “Black Gay Man” as an option.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Fair. I don’t know how well it works on that instance. I see it as schmuk bait - someone who throws a tantrum over it is not someone you want to let in.