Welcome to drag, been seeing drag on lemmy for a while now so I just accept drag to use the internet as drag likes, making memes and talking in the third person
Except that they’ve co-opted a practice of trans people who are genuinely trying to be true to their inner selves. Instead of doing that, they make a mockery out of it because most people are too afraid to call them out on the “drag” thing being a bullshit troll campaign.
If it is a bullshit troll campaign then it’s obviously designed to get people fed up about pronouns and sow discord. The intention is for more people to decide they don’t care about “this stupid neo pronoun bullshit” and for each person that gets fed up about this, trans inclusivity falls in the community.
If it is not a bullshit troll campaign then it isn’t any weirder than other folks I’ve seen before on the internet. Furries and/or otherkin and/or whatever. I might not understand it, but I’m not about to come out here and tell them their self expression is incorrect. Frankly it’s none of my fuckin’ business. Doesn’t hurt me any one way or the other and it might make someone else happy.
So with that as my perspective, I’m just going in whole hog on absolutely respecting the shit out of this, because if they are a troll then they’ll almost certainly get tired of this eventually, and if they aren’t, then I don’t give half a damn what you want to call yourself. Especially if you don’t make a scene when people don’t comply. I’ve never seen Drag make a scene about other people’s choice of what to call them, I’ve only ever seen other people raise questions about how Drag refers to themself.
So, yeah. Do I think it’s a little weird? Sure, it is. Is it harmful? Nah, not really. The only harmful part I’m seeing is how six people want to interrogate them about it every time Drag makes a post about anything and it always overtakes the comment section. It’s attention seeking behavior, sure, but it isn’t harmful to anyone, that I can see.
You just outlined an insidious possibility that hurts people and then kind of skated past that, as if because you can’t prove it, it’s not real.
That possibility is near certainty to me. It makes them happy to see people annoyed and undermine people they don’t like. That’s all that is. And that’s nothing to defend.
Welcome to drag, been seeing drag on lemmy for a while now so I just accept drag to use the internet as drag likes, making memes and talking in the third person
Except that they’ve co-opted a practice of trans people who are genuinely trying to be true to their inner selves. Instead of doing that, they make a mockery out of it because most people are too afraid to call them out on the “drag” thing being a bullshit troll campaign.
If it is a bullshit troll campaign then it’s obviously designed to get people fed up about pronouns and sow discord. The intention is for more people to decide they don’t care about “this stupid neo pronoun bullshit” and for each person that gets fed up about this, trans inclusivity falls in the community.
If it is not a bullshit troll campaign then it isn’t any weirder than other folks I’ve seen before on the internet. Furries and/or otherkin and/or whatever. I might not understand it, but I’m not about to come out here and tell them their self expression is incorrect. Frankly it’s none of my fuckin’ business. Doesn’t hurt me any one way or the other and it might make someone else happy.
So with that as my perspective, I’m just going in whole hog on absolutely respecting the shit out of this, because if they are a troll then they’ll almost certainly get tired of this eventually, and if they aren’t, then I don’t give half a damn what you want to call yourself. Especially if you don’t make a scene when people don’t comply. I’ve never seen Drag make a scene about other people’s choice of what to call them, I’ve only ever seen other people raise questions about how Drag refers to themself.
So, yeah. Do I think it’s a little weird? Sure, it is. Is it harmful? Nah, not really. The only harmful part I’m seeing is how six people want to interrogate them about it every time Drag makes a post about anything and it always overtakes the comment section. It’s attention seeking behavior, sure, but it isn’t harmful to anyone, that I can see.
You just outlined an insidious possibility that hurts people and then kind of skated past that, as if because you can’t prove it, it’s not real.
That possibility is near certainty to me. It makes them happy to see people annoyed and undermine people they don’t like. That’s all that is. And that’s nothing to defend.