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.
They/them is supposed to be the neutral option we wanna normalize. There isn’t a Trans Queen out there that decreed this, but “they” is the common usage now. There is no such thing as “no pronouns” because people are not pronouns. Pronouns are words used to refer to somebody without using their name, it’s a perfectly functioning part of the English language. They is the pronoun to represent many types of folks, including those who would identify as no gender.
Adding “no pronouns” seems like it would be a good idea if the goal was pronouns, but the goal is gender inclusivity and the problem is “white male” being the default assumption in online spaces.
There are people that just don’t want to be reffered to with pronouns though and I’m ok with just using their name/username. If we wish to be inclusive of them it should be an option. It being technically accurate or not, and the fact that the linguistic tools exist is irrelevant to people that do not want those tools used for them.
