Board 8 > I can still ignore preferred pronouns if they are Fae/Faer right

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Tom Bombadil posted...

MYC and Michete walked so we could run

I'm still sore over the way MYC was treated tbqh

Same...

Who is Neato?

This topic sucks and is now about trains?

i never realized this board was unwelcoming to trans people tbqh.

we've always had a decent amount of non-straight people here and that was never a big deal at all, so you'd think we would have been a little more accepting of trans people!

MrGreenonion posted...

I'm still sore over the way MYC was treated tbqh

Can you elaborate on this? Because if I'm not mistaken I thought we treated her pretty well, and it was 2007-ish so this was well before most of us were conscious about how to support transgender people.

The negative reactions people have to trans rights stuff always baffles me, because in 2007 my reaction to MYC wanting to transition was literally just "do what makes you happy" and I tried to support that as best I could. And I was fuckin clueless back then lol

also y'all skipping over my banger of a joke was unkind

Also MYC was on the high end for comedy and was EXTREMELY abrasive about it before transitioning, so if she faced down some shitty behavior it's probably because that became an easy target for users who she'd pissed off. And like I said, we were all pretty clueless back then.

But like lasa said I think we're one of the more accepting communities in general.

*RKOs ExTha*

*oversells*

Mr Lasastryke posted...

i never realized this board was unwelcoming to trans people tbqh.

we've always had a decent amount of non-straight people here and that was never a big deal at all, so you'd think we would have been a little more accepting of trans people!

Are you high?
I am sweating and shaking at the very idea of expressing my opinion on this subject ever again
Anyone who is not welcome to the trans community in this board will get a lot of shit coming their way

Nanis23 posted...

Are you high?
I am sweating and shaking at the very idea of expressing my opinion on this subject ever again
Anyone who is not welcome to the trans community in this board will get a lot of shit coming their way

Is this a "Actually, I'm the victim" post? I'm gonna need you to decipher this.

ExThaNemesis posted...

Also MYC was on the high end for comedy and was EXTREMELY abrasive about it before transitioning, so if she faced down some shitty behavior it's probably because that became an easy target for users who she'd pissed off.

yeah, for once i agree with extha.

MYC was kind of a douchebag, so if people responded negatively to her, it was probably "people reacted negatively to her being abrasive" rather than "the board was super transphobic back then."

Tom Bombadil posted...

MYC and Michete walked so we could run

Thanks, Bison

For me it was Tuesday

Only serious post I'll make in this topic.

If you think MYC was treated poorly for being trans, and not for being a dick, that's some great revisionist history

I legitimately didnt even know MYC was trans until this topic, they were just an asshole.

Pretty much declaring pronouns across the board is dumb and silly, but if it makes someone happy, then what harm is done by trying your best to do so if it causes nothing adverse to yourself or others in doing so.

Corrik7 posted...

Pretty much declaring pronouns across the board is dumb and silly, but if it makes someone happy, then what harm is done by trying your best to do so if it causes nothing adverse to yourself or others in doing so.

This is basically my stance on the topic-- I just want to make that clear. I think it got lost because I was saying things too abrasively, but when I say I'm judging someone for it it's not that I think they're a horrible person-- there are plenty of amazing people out there who excessively crave attention. It's just a character flaw that you need to overcome-- we all have them. Ultimately I will respect your wishes and call you by your pronoun if I can remember and not bring it up unless you're a dick about it because I mean if it makes you happy whatever, and on the grand scheme of things it just doesn't matter much.

Like on a linguistic spectrum I think it's totally idiotic (pronouns are MEANT to be generic and capture things into very large buckets, not be an excuse to dive into a lecture in gender studies) but I'm willing to just shut up and humor it, and long term it isn't really going to reflect much on my judgment of you, so functionally doesn't matter.

Also just for the record if someone identifies as a Fae/Faer and doesn't insist on using a specialized pronoun and is cool with they he or she, I have no issue with them whatsoever. It's no different than my mom who thought she was a dragon <_<

I don't remember MYC being an asshole, just hilarious.

I used to talk to MYC a lot back in my pre-egg days for some reason lol

The Extreme Left and the Extreme Right both suck.

UltimaterializerX posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/1/AABxG1AACsSH.jpg

baby/dog/smoothbrained shit lmao

The Extreme Left doesn't actually exist in the United States and Canada so we're good.

Also what the fuck is that ulti lol

edit: Doesn't exist as far as the power structure of either country go, which is what matters

Ah yes, the party that tried to over throw the government didn't move farther right of course

board 8 being flooded with alpha/beta crap was the low point.

the LoL/draven invasion was also terrible but at least that lasted a very short amount of time.

Kenri posted...

I don't remember MYC being an asshole, just hilarious.

Your memory fails you. MYC wasn't just an asshole, she was incredibly good at it. I feel like MYC from back then would have bullied the fuck out of you Kenri, no offense.

The alpha/beta part led to the whole feminism vs anti-feminism part that I was a huge part of and I feel like that's when I least enjoyed Board 8 even though I was here the most.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why I couldn't just "agree to disagree" on shit and move on instead of arguing incessantly. How did I think that was a productive use of my time lol

ExThaNemesis posted...

I cannot for the life of me figure out why I couldn't just "agree to disagree" on shit and move on instead of arguing incessantly. How did I think that was a productive use of my time lol

alpha energy tbh

Sigma male

UltimaterializerX posted...

Extremist far left communities are only accepting of their bubble. Its why people are being dumb and saying 2016 was the boards low point, because progressives think any opinion outside their bubble is omg right wing extremist rhetoric.

The low point was LoL people invading us in 2013 and that will probably never be topped for garbage behavior.

Low point was L-Block yeah I said it

Forever took away the beauty that was x-stats and perfect brackets.

ExThaNemesis posted...

The alpha/beta part led to the whole feminism vs anti-feminism part that I was a huge part of and I feel like that's when I least enjoyed Board 8 even though I was here the most.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why I couldn't just "agree to disagree" on shit and move on instead of arguing incessantly. How did I think that was a productive use of my time lol

you were taught by the GOAT

https://ultiourgod.ytmnd.com/

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

baby/dog/smoothbrained shit lmao

I feel like this image is accurate, but also that Ulti doesn't realize what a crippling indictment of himself it is.

imagine looking at that graphic and not thinking that the people who are standing still/not moving aren't the ones at fault

I feel like if you run and chase the liberal stick figure it still yells bigot at you if you're still standing only slightly rightward of it.

Source: SEP in this topic lmao.

PerfectChaosZ posted...

I used to talk to MYC a lot back in my pre-egg days for some reason lol

y....yeah

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I feel like this image is accurate, but also that Ulti doesn't realize what a crippling indictment of himself it is.

its not accurate, the republicans have absolutely been moving righter in recent years

Tom Bombadil posted...

y....yeah

Yeah MYC was a pal

Funny that the consensus of multiple trans users is "MYC was someone I liked to talk to" and the consensus of multiple cis users is "MYC was an asshole"

Might go a long way towards explaining why we don't all agree on how accepting of a place this is/was

Let's make this neopronouns topic go all the way lol

500 pronouns lets go

Lopen posted...

I feel like if you run and chase the liberal stick figure it still yells bigot at you if you're still standing only slightly rightward of it.

Source: SEP in this topic lmao.

Again, I never actually said you're a bigot. I said the strawman you created, that somebody would look at neopronouns and go "NO, THIS RUINS TRANS ACCEPTANCE FOR ME FOREVER, FUCK TRANS" would be somebody who is probably bigoted to begin with.

All I did was question your own argument that you willingly choose to look down on people, and thus say that they probably are right to not care what you think since you've already made up your mind. You're the one that said you automatically assume the worst of somebody who uses neopronouns, so...

Our disagreement was over your assertion that people in the trans community should care more about what people who look down on them already think than the people in their own community.

Yeah, I'm going out on a limb and saying that anyone who thinks 'this is a little annoying and silly to me think I'll turn on the entire trans community in favor of the people that want them to die and have horrible lives' is an asshole.

ExThaNemesis posted...

Your memory fails you. MYC wasn't just an asshole, she was incredibly good at it. I feel like MYC from back then would have bullied the fuck out of you Kenri, no offense.

It's not like I wasn't here when MYC still posted, if she was gonna try to bully me she had the opportunity to do so

You might be right about my memory failing me though idk

MrGreenonion posted...

Yeah MYC was a pal

Funny that the consensus of multiple trans users is "MYC was someone I liked to talk to" and the consensus of multiple cis users is "MYC was an asshole"

Might go a long way towards explaining why we don't all agree on how accepting of a place this is/was

MYC was a major asshole to the board at large but very, very personable in 1-1 settings. Don't make this an issue of acceptance as it is not at all at play here.

Think what you want

MrGreenonion posted...

Yeah MYC was a pal

Funny that the consensus of multiple trans users is "MYC was someone I liked to talk to" and the consensus of multiple cis users is "MYC was an asshole"

Might go a long way towards explaining why we don't all agree on how accepting of a place this is/was

extha is 100% correct about MYC being an abrasive bullying asshole. the fact that you're trying to paint me as "less accepting of trans people" just because i thought MYC was a douchebag is pretty insulting.

uh oh Lasa is feeling insulted, everyone go to cover <_<

HashtagSEP posted...

Again, I never actually said you're a bigot. I said the strawman you created, that somebody would look at neopronouns and go "NO, THIS RUINS TRANS ACCEPTANCE FOR ME FOREVER, FUCK TRANS" would be somebody who is probably bigoted to begin with.

No, you did, and I'm the one who pointed out a strawman you made. Then you started backpedaling to "I'm not even necessarily saying Lopen is a bigot" and then now to "I never said Lopen is a bigot." I assume it's because I wasn't giving you the "nuh uh I'm not a bigot because ___" argument you were fishing for.

Why? Because I simply didn't give a shit what you were calling me because I know how far offbase it is as does anyone on this board who knows me at any sort of personal level. You keep being that left stickman-- I'll just ignore you from now on. Very easy.

I was literally reacting to you, nobody else, saying "Yes, I choose to assume the worst of people that use neopronouns, and yes, it hurts the community. It doesn't matter what the trans community actually thinks, I'm the authority here."

How else is that supposed to look, exactly