Looks like my account was banned/restricted for the above interaction, have already sent the mods on world an email asking if they'd be willing to reverse that. Had an episode of psychosis a few months ago where I did say some offensive stuff, (understandably) got a 3 month ban on .lol for that, so could see my account having been flagged.
I uh, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to check others profiles to ensure we are correctly pronouning them… when making a throw away comment that is less than 10 words involving a ludicrously common saying. Jerboa does not show users pronouns. I could switch to an app that DOES show the pronouns, do any Lemmings have a recommendation for a free Lemmy mobile app that has that feature?
Edit: Edie chimed in, Jerboa does show pronouns. It's a formatting issue with mobile vs browser (She has them on individual text lines so they don't appear on mobile).
Was just going to respond to the user in question to let them know I wasn't purposefully trying to offend that individual, to discover I'm not able to post or make comments on world now, so figured I'd see what y'alls opinion on the matter is.
Gender is an incredibly validating concept specifically for some trans people, to write it off is unhelpful.
I mean in my "very long" years of experience never seen in an anonymous ungoverned platform someone intentionally revealing any peace of personal information about themselves like in hacking platforms for example someone calling themselves "he who hacks" or "her majesty" or such where those are only simple usernames but yet reveal enough to minimize the search area and along with the comments data could trigger enough data to start and osint attack on the user and then eventually dox them..
if you're obligating everyone to acknowledge your personal data don't be nagging when companies be selling your data and making profit out of it since there are people who like Force feeding their informations onto others to be aware of, hell I won't even blame Lemmy instance owner to sell the users data by then.
I'll be talking about myself and the majority of users that immigrated to this social platform based on the idea that it's ungoverned, legally safe for all users and anonymous so when a user Calles someone bro or pal it's if not always meant as gender neutral same as in a random people calling you bro with the meaning of that he/she descending from your mom or dad, like yourself, the logic is the same and intentions were pure, plus with the culture of respecting everyone's right of privacy you'd learn to treat everyone as equal and the same, with the only difference is the mentality and ideas held by individuals not by gender as the only special treat to define a user.
Bad faith argument.
Listing your pronouns isn't force feeding anything to anyone. Observing someone's listed pronouns takes less effort than having this discussion.
Using they/them and gender neutral language is helpful as a general rule, but if someone is absolutely fucking waving a flag of their gender, its wilfully ignorant at best and intentionally malicious at worst to disregard it.
Or just quoting a P.T. Barnum as most people don't like changing quotes for whatever reason and using what is known to be a famous saying is definitely not "intentionally malicious" it's mostly the ignorant's fault for not getting the innocent joke, plus not all Lemmy mobile apps show stuff like flags and pronounces so maybe consider that as well on your side before dropping the death sentence..
Your argument was that everything should be gender neutralised. That has nothing to do with OP's very innocent usage of a quote.
When did I drop a death sentence? Deary me, I advocate for using someone's pronouns instead of applying they/them to everybody and you consider that a death sentence?
Not "should be" but sometimes everyday users would just quote and go without the extra effort of checking into everyone's profile before the already wasted effort of doing the comment then changing the quotes based to fit for everyone's gender perfectly so the easier solution is just considering everyone a catfish and just move on it's just a quote of a meme anyway for all that effort to waste