Edit: Don’t just downvote and run away, make your liberalism known. If you have an issue with either of these, please let them be known in the comments. C’mon, let’s duke it out. :)
For the libs shouting “but muh anonymity”, you should have zero issue using the “any pronoun” tag as you will be addressed with any pronouns regardless of whether or not you have it set. The point of having them sitewide is for everyone to use them to normalize explicitly stating one’s pronouns as a means of not forcing trans people to request to be addressed with basic respect. The amount of pushback on a meaningful step toward trans inclusivity in this community is pretty fucking disheartening, not gonna lie.
Folks seem to be using the NSFW tag for the spoiler effect on memes, and while it’s a funny use of it, it’s causing the intended use of the NSFW tag to lose its value. This isn’t r/WatchPeopleDie. Personally, I was exposed to that sort of content at a younger age and am desensitized to it now, but not everyone is like me in that regard and I’m probably more fucked up than I like to think for having been as exposed to it as I was. We currently don’t have another way of tagging content, so please be considerate and put “[NSFL]” or content warnings in the title so people know they’ll be looking at some heavy shit. Not a lot to ask. Please do not start ironically putting “[NSFL]” or other content warnings in the post title. You’re more creative than that, I promise.
?? No it doesn’t. It’s seriously just what you want other users on the site to use for you. If only those using pronouns for gender identity set them then its counterproductive to whats being attempted here. The goal is to normalize using preferred pronouns. You have preferred pronouns of they/them, in this space. Reason is irrelevant, gender identity reasons or not. You don’t have to justify your pronouns, just setting them is all that’s needed.
No username preffered pronouns are nothing more than that. Preffered pronouns. That’s the part of it being normalized. It isn’t about your irl person, just what you want others to say when refering to you. It’s implying anything other than “use they/them when reffering to me on here”. There is no other implication. It just needs to be normal to say pronouns, without any implications. Here that’s just changing a setting.
