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Banned from comms I haven't posted to in months because I said "Dragonfucker isn't a gender" on another instance
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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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I didn't disrespect Drag's pronouns. As I said in the screenshot, even, I made an effort to not misgender Drag.
Drag explicitly said their gender identification was a Dragonfucker. And they clarified on numerous occasions that they meant a fucker of literal dragons.
How is that not close to the attack helicopter dogwhistle?
Furthermore, Drag explicitly defended and praised the attack helicopter dogwhistle as an example of the kind of genders that should be respected - and numerous folk on Blahaj agreed.
Gender is a construct in the same way that language is a construct. That it is fluid and flexible does not mean that nothing means anything.
Bruh, I'm not on Blahaj. I didn't say this on Blahaj. I haven't said anything on Blahaj since I left.
Not to my knowledge, though I guess I could've missed it? In any case, this isn't about Dragonfucker so much as it's about Ada coming in to a conversation on another instance and deciding to ban me from a bunch of comms that I don't interact with anymore for the sin of saying dragons aren't real.