Those users use neopronouns and apparently for a lot of people it’s beyond the limit of their ability to not gatekeep queer people. There was an announcement about it from the admin that was basically “yeah neopronouns are valid, don’t misgender anyone period” and several people completely lost their shit and made threads to bitch about it in.
It’s a much different conversation to say “it hurts to be called something I’m not” versus “I want you to call me something specific”. One is a generic behavioral change, just refer to everyone as they/them, it’s super easy!
But I’m not going to capitalize it for random jokers with a god complex, they get the blanket generic pronoun same as everyone else. Frankly, it’s rare I even read the username of a comment before replying - the pronouns are entirely irrelevant to the actual purpose of the comment.
Those users use neopronouns and apparently for a lot of people it’s beyond the limit of their ability to not gatekeep queer people. There was an announcement about it from the admin that was basically “yeah neopronouns are valid, don’t misgender anyone period” and several people completely lost their shit and made threads to bitch about it in.
It’s a much different conversation to say “it hurts to be called something I’m not” versus “I want you to call me something specific”. One is a generic behavioral change, just refer to everyone as they/them, it’s super easy!
But I’m not going to capitalize it for random jokers with a god complex, they get the blanket generic pronoun same as everyone else. Frankly, it’s rare I even read the username of a comment before replying - the pronouns are entirely irrelevant to the actual purpose of the comment.