Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem

• yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You guys ever get the impression nearly everyone on internet message boards is autistic?

  And I don’t mean that in a mean way, I mean that literally.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve worked with very low functioning populations before and this shit really tries my patience more than my clients did back in the day…

    But yeah man, it’s a spectrum. And when you strip out all the facial/tonal cues and general body language…

    Yeah, everyone is going to act like the people who can’t pick up on that stuff. Because none of us can pick up on it on message boards.

    Hell, think about the “/s” and how people would react if the majority insisted everyone literally say “I’m done being sarcastic now”.

    Obviously you’re going to see parallels in communication issues.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You don’t need “everybody” to be transphobic for transphobia to be a big problem.

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