the number of nonstandard gendered/sexuality people here and on tvtropes

randomtropeloser

Hmm, I'm not sure whether I prefer "he" or "she," since I guess I could be one or the other.

glennmagusharvey

@ Trash Vortex: Well, apart from the fact that it's not possible since we don't have gendered 2nd-person pronouns (THANK GOODNESS), I'd say that the same set of words means different things to different people, so one person's mere linguistic conveniences may be another person's identity-shaking keywords.

In other news, I should warn myself for coming close to importing drama.

Trash_Vortex

^I suppose. I was thinking about changing the way you speak depending on the gender of the speakee.

Can I be a mod? Please?

Central Avenue

^^ Importing drama here or at TVTropes?

snowbull

How?

glennmagusharvey

Importing drama here from TV Tropes, by criticizing EI.

That said, if you think I ought to change anything about my post at the top of this page, please do let me know.

ClockworkUniverse

Speaking of which, should that Kino thread be locked? It's been fairly civil for the most part, but it makes me nervous...

Central Avenue

If you're locking threads, could you lock that one I made about pronoun preferences? I'm kinda embarrassed by it now. And have been since a couple hours after I started it.

Tnophelia

inb4 lock

snowbull

What is there to lock in this thread?

Tnophelia

So I can see how a locked thread looks on this forum.

snowbull

We don't have any yet?

ClockworkUniverse

Not that I'm aware of.

Tnophelia

So importing "this is why me and X troper aren't at good terms" is importing drama?

I didn't know that.

I thought "This troper is an ass and you should think he's an ass too" or "hay everyone, X is an asshole, doncha agree?"

Central Avenue

I'd start a thread called "HEY MODS! LOCK THIS!" with the first post reading "...so Tnoph can see what it looks like", but I want to be a mod someday so I have to prove I can do things other than shitposting 24/7.

snowbull

I'd hate being a mod. It'd mean I'd have to actually read this crap.

Trash_Vortex

I've changed my mind, please don't make me a mod.

glennmagusharvey

Tnoph: that's borderline, and could go either way depending on where the responses go.

It could become a thread about how to work things out with that other person, or it could be a flamestorm.

Tnophelia

So if everyone is in consensus that "troper x is worthless" the thread gets locked, but if everyone goes "troper x is a pretty cool gal" it stays, and if it goes "Troper x is a pretty cool gal, but shme is kind of a dick" is questionable?

glennmagusharvey

I didn't say consensus; I said flamestorm. :P

That said, it is highly recommended that you actually explain your points in the opening post.  A peaceful discussion about the issue is best--at best, not a discussion about the person in question but an attempt to analyze the problem in the interaction.  The worst outcomes would be either a pile-on or a flamewar.

Super Lazuli

I wasn't on good terms with GMH for a long time either.

I am still unclear on exactly my relationship with him is.

Anyway, we're here, we're queer/bi/trans/ace, get used to it.

snowbull

OH YEAH

Super Lazuli

Kool-Aid Man?

Tnophelia

NO

glennmagusharvey

OH YEAH!

@ MFDY: My main thing about you was that you changed nicknames often, and frankly speaking, I can't do a darn thing about it, and you're far from the only one, and there are people with tons of sockpuppets anyway.  So, as I've said before, I don't really care.

Bob

Re: Gender Pronouns: People can call me whatever. He, she, they, it, I'm cool with it all. I honestly don't see the big deal about getting so riled up when someone refers to you by a gender you don't want them to. I mean, I can get why it'd make people mad, but still, it's not worth it.

glennmagusharvey

I personally take it as a compliment about my ability to appear gender-neutral when people refer to me using the wrong pronoun set.