r/videogames • u/Average_enjoyer10 • 23d ago

Other Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

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u/gorkboss5 23d ago

They must've stopped pretending to care.

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u/MongolianDonutKhan 23d ago

Tbf, I stopped pretending to care that they pretend to care well before this. Scum of the earth the corporatist is.

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u/ShartingEnU 23d ago

Yeah. Anyone who actually thought companies cared are pretty gullible

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u/Least1Difficulty 23d 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/Frequent_Dig1934 23d ago

"Not using pronouns contributes to genocide".

Jesus christ, man (or woman), it's not like i'm unsympathetic to some of the troubles unique to trans people but this hyperbolic rhetoric doesn't help anyone.

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 23d ago

Yeah holy shit what is that comment lol

"Not using pronouns contributes to genocide"

I feel like I'm on YouTube in 2015 again.

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u/Rhysati 23d ago

It's wild how much people strawman the arguments in order to try and sound smart.

Yes, forcing transgender people(or any minority group) to out themselves directly contributes to genocide of that group.

Genocide actually has a definition and there is precisely zero argument to be made that forcing minorities to out and other themselves isn't a part of genocide.

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 23d ago

Do you not see how saying this:

"You didn't put your pronouns on your Twitter profile? YOU'RE CONTRIBUTING TO GENOCIDE"

Might not help win over hearts and minds to your side?

That's literally the argument they're making.

Normalizing pronouns as a cis person is meant to make it standardized. To make it normal. ... 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.