Five days ago, drag was banned from !politicalmemes@lemmy.world for using neopronouns. A comment explaining drag’s pronouns, and a comment saying “drag” isn’t a nickname, were removed with the reason “trolling”. Drag understands why someone would think that using different pronouns than most people is trolling - transphobia. However, drag is confused how on earth not liking a nickname is a violation of any rules anywhere.
Context of the removed comments:
Drag would like to pre-empt any further accusations of trolling by asking a question: If drag were a right wing troll, and you chose to freely accept drag’s pronouns, wouldn’t that completely neuter the trolling attempt? Trolling is about trying to make others upset. You don’t have to get upset when someone uses unusual pronouns. If you aren’t transphobic, then it’s impossible to troll you that way. And drag promises: drag wants you to not be transphobic. Drag is not trying to upset anyone. If you do what drag wants you to do, then you get what you want too. This is a non-issue, there’s only a problem if you want there to be.
EDIT: DRAG DID NOT TELL ANYBODY TO USE DRAG’S PREFERRED PRONOUNS.
There are two, gender neutral ways of referring to yourself when using the English language: “I” and “Me”, depending on where in the sentence they appear. You’re “preferred pronouns” have nothing to do with referring to yourself in the third person, which just comes off as stupid trolling.
Drag isn’t referring to dragself in the third person.
“I am not referring to myself in the third person”
Vs.
“I isn’t referring to myself in the third person”,
Vs.
“<pronoun> isn’t referring to *self in the third person”.
You are very clearly referring to yourself in the third person, based on how you’re conjugating your verbs.
Verbs aren’t conjugated based on grammatical person, they’re conjugated based on the pronoun. You’ve made a false assumption. You should have realised that the pronoun determines conjugation based on the way we conjugate they/them pronouns. Did you notice it’s different to how we conjugate he and she?
Ok, so you just don’t understand how language works. I’ll let that be your problem to deal with.