• Gaywallet (they/it)
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      32 months ago

      I’m going to treat you with good faith and assume you were using “cool man” in the same way someone might say “that’s just like your opinion man”, as a saying, but I will remind you that this person has their pronouns in their display name and you need to respect them.

      • prole
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        If I offended anyone, I apologize. But man… People like you make this shit look bad (I know this is old, I just saw it).

        I respect people’s choices with respect to gender expression. What I don’t respect is people who use that shit as a cudgel to censor opinions they don’t like that are entirely unrelated to that subject.

        That person had NO pronouns listed next to their name. I frankly don’t clock people’s usernames before commenting so had no idea what their username even was. That said, one could argue that the name Emily implies nothing about a person’s preferred pronouns. Unless you know them personally, or they complained personally about this, then YOU are the one assuming gender and pronouns. Fuck dude, why am I even assuming that the person’s username is their real name? Oh no, I just said “dude” are you going to ban me?

        Two people who have never seen/heard/spoken to one another discussing something on the internet, and one is supposed to, what, intuit the other’s preferred pronouns? What if Emily did not identify as a woman, and you just corrected me? It’s almost as if “cool man” isn’t gender specific anymore, and you know that.

        • Gaywallet (they/it)
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          11 day ago

          The pronouns are right there, in the display name . I’m confused, do they not show up for you? You’re on our instance so I’m guessing it’s not a front-end difference, but maybe you’re browsing on an app that doesn’t show it appropriately? Although I would mention their username itself includes the words “IsTrans” and is sourced from lemmy.blahaj.zone so those should be other key indicators.

          I was hardly about to ban you over a small mistake. The only reason I even replied to this, is that multiple people reported it and Emily herself came in and corrected you. The action was more about signaling to others that this is a safe space.

    • Emily (she/her)
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      2 months ago

      Not a man. My pronouns are in my username. Even you can connect the dots here.

      • -Emma-
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        22 months ago

        Even on mbin where I can’t see your pronouns, your username itself is Emily. There’s no excuse for their behavior.

    • -Emma-
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      22 months ago

      I’d love to know why you think it’s okay to insult her like that.