• BluJay320
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    Interesting take. I haven’t seen any poor behavior from drag at any point and, unless I’ve missed something, drag seems to be a fine and well-contributing member of this community.

    Grail, on the other hand, I have no doubt is a troll. Aside from their consistent behavior, they were heavily involved with mindtraveller (if anyone remembers them) who was also very clearly a troll. Granted, they may also just be heavily narcissistic. Regardless, I refuse to entertain claims of divinity. The assertion that someone must be referred to as a god/goddess/superior being of any form is an assault on my and others’ freedom of religion, spirituality, or lack thereof.

    No individual is inherently above or below another, nor will I be intimidated into referring to them as such - be it by them, mods, or anyone else.

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      drag seems to be a fine and well-contributing member of this community.

      idk I can respect drag’s neopronoun but I’d imagine drag would get much less hate if it wasn’t for shit like this

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        I don’t really see this as encouraging suicide. Drag explicitly stated that another option is preferable. Could’ve been worded better, sure, and it’s in very poor taste, but… I cant say I disagree…

        Is nazis dying suddenly a bad thing now?

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        Fuck, hadn’t seen stuff like that. Opinion changed.

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        you, you’re doing it right. behavior is not an excuse to knowingly misgender someone. everything else in this thread is beside the point.

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            Banning the user above for anti-trans rhetoric. Explaining the position here because we’re consistently repeating ourselves and it’s exhausting.

            Drag’s user name is Dragon Rider. I would assume the neopronoun “Drag” is a shortening of Dragon but even if not bare with me… Pronouns exist to replace nouns. Our name (or in this case online, our username) is a proper noun. People rejecting pronouns in favor of just using their name isn’t new. I don’t know why the community is so upset about this. You are well within your opinion to not like people. Whatever, you’re allowed to hate Drag as a person. Don’t hate Drag because you dislike Drag’s pronouns.

            Even then, why tf do you care that someone wants to be called Drag? I don’t care about alternate account’s NAMES. We can’t prove whether or not Drag has alt accounts and even then, why do you care? Care about Drag’s actions.

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      The more I end up running into Grail the more they give me narcissist vibes. Especially their stance that “critising narcissism is actually a conservative view point”

      Not to mention the amount of times they seem to find excuses to link back to their blog articles.

      I’m not sure who mindtraveler was/is but looking at Grail’s recent comment history, yeah I hadn’t seen the worst of their behavior as we’re, in general, in different parts of the site.