Looks like my account was banned/restricted for the above interaction, have already sent the mods on world an email asking if they’d be willing to reverse that. Had an episode of psychosis a few months ago where I did say some offensive stuff, (understandably) got a 3 month ban on .lol for that, so could see my account having been flagged.

I uh, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to check others profiles to ensure we are correctly pronouning them… when making a throw away comment that is less than 10 words involving a ludicrously common saying. Jerboa does not show users pronouns. I could switch to an app that DOES show the pronouns, do any Lemmings have a recommendation for a free Lemmy mobile app that has that feature?

Was just going to respond to the user in question to let them know I wasn’t purposefully trying to offend that individual, to discover I’m not able to post or make comments on world now, so figured I’d see what y’alls opinion on the matter is.

  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
    81·
    2 hours ago

    I’ve had people flip out at me on Lemmy for ‘misgendering’ it’s so ridiculous.

    Like we don’t know if it’s a man or woman. It’s the internet, yknow?

    • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      2 hours ago

      God I hate it when people call animals “they”. Like “the dog doesn’t like their squeaky toy” - it’s a dog! Call it “it”! “The dog doesn’t like its squeaky toy”

      • 8osm3rka@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 hours ago

        To be fair, some languages outside of English reserve “it” (or the equivalent 3rd person neuter pronoun) for “non-living” things. For people whose native language is one of those languages, calling an animal “it” may seem a bit too harsh even while speaking English.

      • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 hours ago

        It don’t like your comment…

        “The dog likes his squeaky toy.”

        Like everyone is fighting over gender in human race, I would like that you finally understand that dogs/cats/cows even the squirrel in your garden… Those are sentient living beings… Stop treating them like just a fucking object !

        • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 hour ago

          But even in English - if you are completely gender neutral - “the human does not like its work in the office” is the same.

          • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Hummm… Maybe I don’t get all the grammatical rules in English, but it’s really disheartening to treat living beings as objects.

            As I remember It is an article for objects and I would never consider my dog as an non-living object. He’s way more “human” than most people that I have encountered in my life.