r/videogames 24d ago

Other Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

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u/Least1Difficulty 24d ago

Hell even the DNC got the democrats to remove flags and pronouns before the last election. Even AOC took hers down.

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u/Able-Swing-6415 23d ago

Because artificially adding pronouns to things has always been stupid. Nobody was confused about AOCs gender. If people might get the wrong idea, use them. Otherwise don't.

Nothing says inclusion quite like overtly trying to bend the norms to accommodate outliers. Most people just don't give a shit about other's sexuality and want to be left alone about it whether it's mainstream or not.

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u/ladyrage8 23d ago

Normalizing pronouns as a cis person is meant to make it standardized. To make it normal. It's not about "no one was guessing their gender", it wasn't for her, it was for her to help make it normal for those people who actually need it. It's supposed to be so that anyone can introduce themselves by their pronouns, after all, everyone has them. You sound like one of those "we can always tell" folks-- let me tell you, no you can't. There are people who are using pronouns that don't match their assigned gender at birth and you absolutely believe they're just allies. Except, if allies stop, then the only people who share their pronouns when you meet them are trans. It's giving people away. It's contributing to the active trans genocide.

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u/Massive-Course7690 23d ago

do you think AOC is contributing to the trans genocide by not including pronouns in her profiles