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I don’t think the person on the left’s a transphobe, but I also don’t think they understand the scale of the harassment trans people face on a daily basis. Like it’s so bad the users would rather just have potential trolls ignored and downvoted than to see well meaning cis people come in and do vigilante justice using the same tactics of abuse trans people go through every day.

That empathetic disconnect looks like transphobia to some users. I don’t know that the users are right, but I understand how you reached that conclusion, especially with the person on the left’s days-long soapbox crashout about how despotic Ada is.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I honestly don't understand the whole problem from anyone. I hit the block button after 1 post, and I'm just shaking my head every time. I did the same for the person who insists on having their pronouns capitalized or something (and I'm reasonably sure it's the same person, but eh, block and move on).

It costs you nothing, it takes basically no time at all, and it makes your life and everyone else's experience better. Like blocking .ml

[–] Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I annoyed myself for ten minutes reading their posts, realized they were a teenager looking for attention, and blocked.

Boom, no problems.

I didn't block anyone, yet the discussion has been the most annoying thing for me. Can we just move on?

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I may be out of the loop:

What's up with .ml?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml is the marxist-lenninist instance. It's VERY marxist-lenninist

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh so thats what the .ml means

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of people on it with very strong opinions that fall well outside the norm. From my experience, most of what goes on there is pretty innocuous, occasionally I’ll see something on the all page from there that makes me raise an eyebrow in disbelief, but like, not often enough to be a serious bother for me TBH.

[–] cccc0@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The more people passionately post about drama on a meme page, the less I care about it.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 year ago

this is a symptom of you caring more about the memes than the community, and that’s fine. :) its good to be aware of your opinions on things /gen

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is nice to see a meme poking fun of and criticizing the "leavers" without twisting and misrepresenting their views.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 year ago

glad to hear you felt this was fair. i had a long conversation with one and so did my best to be as charitable as possible with what i learned.

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Leaving the instance or blocking someone isn't transphobic, but not respecting their pronouns is. It's that simple.

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I'm leaving."

doesn't leave

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

homies this is blahaj, not an airport terminal. no need to announce your departure 😆

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my ass had to take a day off the internet, shit was tiring.

you’re one of the real ones, spujb

[–] TheCoolerMia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

comment for someone's comment that I remember but don't remember where I saw it and I dont care enough to find it and I assume it was removed anyway:

"trans women are women. dragons arent real."

okie Im a neutron star then, those r real :3

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[–] RedSeries@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DISCLAIMER: Any "you" used in this comment is the royal "you", not directed at OP but more at those with attitudes like the person being referenced in the meme.

The drama post I saw around this was full of people being upset that their words both caused harm and had consequences. And I personally feel they were being transphobic. Misgendering and disrespecting another person's identity is where my line of transphobia is. If you think (for example) calling Elon something like "Elonia" is a valid take, I know how seriously you'll take my identity when we butt heads

Like OF COURSE you can leave, why should any of us care? OF COURSE you can disrespect someone's identity, just deal with not being allowed in inclusive spaces. OF COURSE you can post that drama like you're the victim, just don't expect to change the minds of those who deal with your shit every day. OF COURSE you're not "transphobic", you're just a cunt. You'd only ever call yourself a transphobe if it were trendy. You have trans people in your life, so you could NEVER be transphobic. 🙄

[–] mke@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry for responding to your serious comment with such a dumb thing, but shouldn't it be queerphobic or something else? I thought transphobia pertained to cases involving trans folk.

Could ask a search engine, but sometimes communities like this have a more nuanced answer.

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd say anybody who is gender-nonconforming, non-binary, etc, is trans.

They may not always suffer from the same level of transphobia as MtFs or FtMs, but they are no longer identifying as the gender they were assigned at birth. That makes them trans, imo.

[–] mke@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's surprising. But this feels like a nice way to frame it, if so:

... they are no longer identifying as the gender they were assigned at birth. That makes them trans ...

The other commenter mentioned this might be casting too wide a net, and I lean towards the "abolish gender" team, myself, so I'd be curious to hear what others think about it, especially MtF, FtM and similar(?) people.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I'm FtM and have the same mindset of the above poster regarding the definition of "trans" but if a non binary person asks me to not refer to them as trans, then I'll certainly respect that.

[–] RedSeries@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's a dumb thing to ask at all! It might be that queerphobic is a better term. I don't know the best term for the fear or aversion to identities outside of the binary/non-binary that most are accustomed to. I personally tend to put that under the transphobic umbrella.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you can post this meme, but if I post the exact same meme with the speech bubbles reversed it will be removed for "gatekeeping". Do I understand that correctly?

[–] hex@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes no sense reversed

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“what if the roles were reversed?” -mfs in a situation where the roles are never reversed XD

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago

What if YOU were the billionaire!?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You literally made a meme calling out a specific user. The meme explains that if you see a user behaving in a way you don't like to just report, ignore, and let the mods handle it instead of issuing vigilante justice.

Would you consider this post ignoring the user you don't like and letting the mods handle things or would it be vigilante justice?

[–] RedSeries@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which user was called out? I don't see a name in the post.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

The user you replied to with this comment that I can't actually quote because it breaks this community's rules.

[–] hex@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This post is humour + commentary. No one was called out.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 year ago

entire drama communities: freak out about a situation for days on end

me: does commentary

self-absorbed mfs: this must be about me, in particular

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

especially with the person on the left’s days-long soapbox crashout about how despotic Ada is.

This is just generic commentary not directed at any user in particular?

[–] hex@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not aware of the full story, nor am I being told anyone is a terrible person. I guess it's an if-you-know-you-know scenario. I don't think it's villainising anyone.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The OP has recently spent some time arguing with another user. The commentary by the OP is this comment by them except they changed the username to "the person on the left".

Nobody is a terrible person. I just think it's hypocritical to say making posts like this isn't the exact type of behaviour the server admins have requested users not engage in.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can block a few people but I cant get my community back after it was killed :c

(Also my worry is that trolls will eventually kill this instance)

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