Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net to traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months agoPronoun discourse on twitter is making me lose my mind. CW talks of misgendering and defense thereofNSFWhexbear.netimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up183arrow-down1imagePronoun discourse on twitter is making me lose my mind. CW talks of misgendering and defense thereofNSFWhexbear.netNakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net to traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square80fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agoHot take, the slur filter doesn’t understand context, and as a result, clamps down on various kinds of queer slang. And I think that’s cringe. Like, look at this section from My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstien, where trans people are describing their experience of gender: These are beautiful, amazing, and I absolutely adore every single one! But the Hexbear slur filter would butcher these so bad, they’d read like a Papa Roach radio edit
minus-squareAngel [any]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·2 months agoSuffocation. No breathing. Don’t give a removed if I removed
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months ago subversive queermonger -monger never disappoints, fucking gathering up all the queer into a big pile. for evil
Hot take, the slur filter doesn’t understand context, and as a result, clamps down on various kinds of queer slang. And I think that’s cringe.
Like, look at this section from My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstien, where trans people are describing their experience of gender:
These are beautiful, amazing, and I absolutely adore every single one!
But the Hexbear slur filter would butcher these so bad, they’d read like a Papa Roach radio edit
Suffocation. No breathing. Don’t give a removed if I removed