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UPDATE: The transphobe Ada has been defending says they misgender all trans women/NBs on Blahaj who are strangers - Blåhaj Lemmy
lemmy.blahaj.zoneFurther information on the situation with the transphobia: Abigail has
repeatedly misgendered me and defended her choice by saying she chooses to refer
to all people of unknown gender as male. > Hey, Abigail here. I just want people
to know the reason this person got banned is likely because of a deleted comment
not included in that thread. OP called me ~~autistic ~~ mentally unwell for not
liking politics. THAT kind of behavior is not acceptable on lemmy.blahaj.zone,
so I reported the comment and let Ada handle it. Ada tried in good faith to
reason with OP but it was clear they just wanted to fight. So yeah, they got
banned. Ada’s a fantastic lady who’s been great at keeping the trolls at bay. >
Edit: and the bit about me misgendering them is also wrong. Gender didn’t come
into play until after I had left the conversation. English default on the
internet is male for strangers. Source:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2319669
[https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2319669] WRT the statement that I accused
them of autism for not liking politics, further info is available here:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2319669
[https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2319669]
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2320815
[https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2320815]
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2321026
[https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2321026]
I’ve got no problem with nonbinary people. Gender is a pair of social performances, significantly deviating from both makes one nonbinary. I view you (/your character if you are a wrecker) as being nonbinary, I simply do not view “communicates” as a gender. It’s not like I’d ever not use your pronouns.
My initial comment was me suggesting you are “pro drone” in the US imperialism sense. I never fathoms that it was something as absurd as the position you have now expressed.
I don’t view “communicates” as a gender either. But “uses communication to talk about sports” is a component of a particular gender presentation. And a big part of my gender presentation is “uses communication to form an egregoric identity”. I don’t know why you misunderstood me so badly that you thought communication was my gender when I told you I achieve hiveminding through communication.
It’s because hiveminds aren’t real and collective identity is something virtually everyone is part of.
You mean you identify as the same person as someone else? IDK sounds gay to me (positive connotation)
I mean collective identity like “Citizens of X country; mathematicians; skaters; Chinese diaspora; local residents; children”. Groups that segments of the population are a part of and about which things like median opinion on a given topic, age, social position, etc. might be said.
Identifying as another individual person is, I think, a symptom of schizophrenia or another psychotic condition if you really mean it. If it’s just a thing you say, then that’s called lying.
Drones don’t identify as individuals. Individual identity is voluntarily relinquished in favour of swarm identity. “I” am not a member of a swarm, because there’s no such thing as “I”. There is only “We”.
Obviously I use an individual identity when I’m interacting with neuronormative society. I have to hide in my closet and pretend to be an individual so that you’ll be able to understand my speech. But when I’m being myself, there is no myself.
Again, this is either cult behavior or being cute with language. It doesn’t matter if you say “I” or “this one,” the same thing is indicated. If you believe in your individuality not being a valid concept or referent beyond linguistic contrivance, then it’s back to cult shit or psychosis. Even critics of the self like Hume still admit that there is “this bundle of sensations” that is distinct from “that bundle of sensations” because to say otherwise would be at odds with reality. Likewise with all those who negatively evaluate multiplicity, like Plotinus and Schopenhauer. They believe in the metaphysical supremacy of a unified One (or maybe Two), but they nonetheless recognize that the world of images/world-as-representation is what we experience and need to navigate on a basic level.
ps I don’t say “cult shit” lightly. I specifically know of someone who got pulled into a cult where they do that shit seemingly as a method of having the leader’s identity supersede that of his cult members (who are effectively a harem). In a way, you could have a conceptually valid identity if the behavior of acting as a drone was gendered against the behavior of a monarch. That would be conceptually valid, but also cult shit that merits serious intervention from mental health professionals. If you refuse this comparison on the ground that there is no monarch or non-drone other gender, consider that what you’re talking about is more like a murmuration of birds or a school of fish (and, again, is not a gender because genders are exclusive clusters of behaviors/social markers).
Yeah okay I’m not comfortable with hearing you say my gender isn’t real or that it’s a harmful religion anymore.