Their behaviour is weird and self-contradictory and drag is sick of it!
People constantly ask drag why drag uses neopronouns. And then when drag answers, they get mad about the answer. What gives!?
This person here seems nice, no shade on them, but look at the downvote numbers. Three other people upvoted their accepting comment, saying drag should be dragself. But it looks as though those same three people downvoted drag for explaining drag’s pronouns. So they hate drag for being drag, but they like platitudes and symbolic gestures of acceptance. It doesn’t make any sense.
Drag is wondering whether drag should even explain drag’s pronouns to anyone anymore. Last week, drag got banned from [email protected] for explaining drag’s pronouns. Someone asked, and drag answered their question. Drag didn’t agree with the situation and made a thread on yepowertrippinbastards - https://lemmy.nz/post/15935996 - and most of the people in the thread accused drag of changing the subject to dragself and demanding others use drag’s pronouns. Other people clog up the thread with demanding drag explain themselves, and it’s drag’s fault they asked.
Maybe drag should just ignore people who ask drag to explain drag’s pronouns, or tell them no. But surely the transphobes will get mad at that, too.
Drag thinks maybe the reason they get mad when drag evades, and mad when drag complies, is because they just want a socially acceptable excuse to be mad at drag. They want to manufacture conflict so they can attack the trans person and pretend it’s not about drag’s transness.
Drag believes that all sapient beings have an ethical duty to help others. Participation in society is on some level endorsement. We pay our taxes to governments that use them for war and cruelty. We live in homes that were deforested to make way for suburbs. Drag lives on land stolen from indigenous people. We drive cars to work, and eat meat. Our current society is one that is designed in such a way as to make our existence harmful. To twist apathy into evil. Therefore, we can’t afford to be apathetic. We have to be political, to make up for all the evil that is done in our names. Drag is vegan. Drag doesn’t drive. Drag protests for Palestine. Drag argues for medium density housing. Drag tries to support indigenous rights. Drag thinks all of that is the absolute bare minimum to even become a neutral person. Drag wants to be a good person, so drag does more than that.