Reece
Iceberg Slim is my role model
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That's not at all the same thing and you know it. You can pretend it is, and enforce it like it is, but that doesn't mean it is. Someone believing that a transsexual is just a mentally ill 'Gender X' is not seeing said treating said person without basic decency - unless you think that all the mentally ill are undermensch, in which case it would be; I suppose - it's them disagreeing with a current hot button political topic. LARP'ing that it is otherwise doesn't change that. Them going 'You're mentally ill faggot' is a direct provocation and is them being an asshole, sure. But is the position 'All trans people are heckin valid, and disagreeing is bigotry so get banned!' or is the position 'We don't care, don't insult each other?'. Or is the position 'We don't care, don't insult each other, but you can only hold opinion X otherwise it's an insult'.Nnnnnot quite true?
"I am a human being and fellow forum user, I ask that you treat me with basic decency" is basically just reaffirming Rule 1.
See above- there's no reason for either side to be assholes about it.
I suppose that would be my mild confusion here. I probably should re-iterate I personally don't care, the whole 'trans issue' is a political one. My desire when I come to QQ is to shoot a fat nut from a fun/hot/funny story. Politics isn't really a thing I care for here, but I assume other people do care, and the consternation seems to come from a concern that someone can say a political statement like 'Gender isn't real!' and people aren't allowed to disagree with them under threat of 'You're being an asshole, eat shit'.
I wasn't talking about characters in the first. I was talking about someone using their identify to try and force their ideals on someone else.Both examples are now allowed, but don't be an asshole to other users remains in effect (don't say other users don't deserve to exist, or say they're all mentally ill, or imply they're sub-human, fucking hell).
Freely discussing sexual identity and bringing that up as points when discussing say, character identity, are kinda important to be able to do when talking about sexual-focused stories. This change is to allow those, rather than going "only talk about orgasms, not about character narratives"
To use another example, I have autism. Me bringing this up to try and make people behave in a way I want, is me trying to leverage something innocuous, like autism, into something 'political'. If I go out of my way to goad someone to say something I would find problematic, and then go 'Actually shitlord, I have autism, bigot'; and the report them, that's me using my nature as a way of trying to get one up over someone else. My first example was very clumsy, because I honestly don't really see how you could do that, since I assume the mods read what is posted in threads and are capable of higher thought. So any sort of 'gotcha' would be pretty clearly visible. I was responding to another user who seemed to be concerned about that issue.