• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
    0·
    6 months ago

    Blahaj said you have to respect everyone’s pronouns, even if you think they are trolling, because it’s not up for debate and you don’t get to set conditions before you start calling someone by the right appelations. Fair enough.

    A user figured out that meant they could identify as a dragon, tell everyone their pronouns were “drag,” and get people banned from blahaj for not saying “drag,” or trying to tell this person that drag weren’t actually a dragon. Blahaj, in the mode of overly well-intentioned leftists throughout all history, bought into it hard and obediently virtue-signaled by banning anyone who pointed out that drag was taking the piss. Presumably, drag laughed dragself out of dragr chair every time it happened. Drag also tended to display other fun behavior like encouraging other users to commit suicide, if I remember right.

    Apparently, blahaj has finally figured it out. I eagerly await whatever overcorrection or other type of continuingly-counterproductive drama is going to ensue now. Presumably, some new user will emerge with some other type of bizarre edge case in the “official correct morality” that everyone is required to agree on, to instigate everyone to get into slap fights over.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      6 months ago

      It’s a nice story, but it’s not what happened.

      Drag was active long before I made the pronoun post, and that post is the second post I’ve made on the topic in the last couple of years.

      Drags pronouns are to be respected. Everyone’s pronouns are to be respected. It’s pretty simple.

      The need for some people to need to put an “except…” at the end of that last sentence is something I will never understand.

      That hasn’t changed, and the position long predates your account being created.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        appreciate your consistent and calm attitude to such a frustrating and consistent onslaught of criticism ada, as always <3

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        6 months ago

        FYI, that post was incorrect (and the user has been banned for comments made elsewhere). You can see some clarifications in my reply to the comment.