Edit: I also just got banned for apparently being a troll. Me. Not the person they believe to be a dragon though.

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    You kind of have a point, to be honest. I started talking about this initially for well-intentioned reasons and still hold some hope that it might be lead to a better exchange of views with the blahaj folks, but it seems like almost all heat no light as of present.

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      6 days ago

      thank you for understanding. please consider repeating this if you agree with it, as it’s going largely unheard

      i personally don’t give a fuck if drag’s a troll or not but HOT DAMB it’s like all the reddiquette to “not feed the (apparent) trolls” we learned in our past is thrown out the window in this one specific case for some reason.

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        Like I said, I don’t even remember the last time I interacted with drag. The admin came out of nowhere and effectively said “We’re backing the idea of dragongender to the hilt” and banned people for saying “But dragons aren’t real???”

        The core issue isn’t drag. The core issue is that the admin came up, all but repeated the Attack Helicopter meme using to attack trans folk, but rephrased as a positive, and then removed and banned people who were astounded by that. And as many commenters in this thread show, that is not entirely unpopular on the instance.

        I’m not going to break bread with people who insist gender is just a roleplay like we’re all three and pretending to be Power Rangers.