TheSaltyArdvarkMar 14

Power Tripping Blahaj Admins ban me for no reason

The power tripping admins at lemmy.blahaj.zone decided to ban me from 196 for zero reason. Citing “Troll” as the one they gave. I understand blahaj has had issues with power-tripping at the admin level in the past over stupid neopronoun debates regarding actual trolls pretending to be fake genders but this is a new low even for them.

Show threadDr. Wesker
They banned me years ago for suggesting in a non-blahaj thread that the word “dude” is not a gendered term in most context.
I apparently got shadow banned almost a year ago from blahaj, for a comment I made on lemmy.world - SDF Chatter

For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter. They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.

Mar 14 at 6:41amWeb
Show threadJorunn (she/her)Mar 14
Announcing that you intend to misgender people is a pretty good reason for us to ban you given the nature of our instance. Notice how at the end of your comment you make it clear you will call someone a “dude” whether they like to be called one or not.
Show threadDr. WeskerMar 14

Notice I did not say that. I said that if someone finds an exclamation of the word offensive they should get over it, which I stand by. I did not say whether I would respect their wishes if they explicitly asked me to stop. You’re just assuming I wouldn’t.

EDIT: this is a hypothetical outrage, I demand to be hypothetically reinstated to piefed

Show threadDr. WeskerMar 14
You know this platform has threaded comments, you could just add a comment, instead of 15 edits to repeatedly reshape your argument. And why are you banning me, yet coming back with baited breath to see if I’ve responded? How did you even get this job?
Show threadPinto, the BeanMar 14

Announcing that you intend to misgender people is a pretty good reason for us to ban you given the nature of our instance. Notice how at the end of your comment you make it clear you will call someone a “dude” whether they like to be called one or not.

Always is the case with transphobes.

Show threadTheSaltyArdvarkMar 14
Yeah that’s bullshit. Dude is 100% a Gender neutral term.
Show threadbreadsmasherMar 14
false.
Show threadEldritchMar 14

Traditionally it hasn’t been. It is getting there in some ways. In the Midwest in the late 80s an 90s people used dude like they were smurfs or something. But it was very regional, not at all universal.

Worked with a younger woman co worker from a female dominated household who used “girl” as most would use “man” in slang. I got a chuckle out of it the first time, and after that I always understood. But you gotta try and understand where others are coming from or how they might feel. So many such slang terms borrowing from heavily gendered words like dude or man can be very erasing and unwanted.

In the end, we don’t have the right for others to not be offended. And if you didn’t intend for others to be offended. The absolute worst way to show it is to say fuck you I’ll do what I want.