As an enby who’s played around with both masculine and feminine pronouns on the lemmyverse, there’s a more subtle strain as well. People assuming you don’t know things or explaining things to you excessively. Getting more DMs. And a kind of centering of cis men that still happens even in more feminist and trans-inclusive spaces within threads that cover certain topics.
I don’t doubt this at all. But I think it’s just lemmy being a reflection of real life rather than something that developed as part of lemmy culture, as well as lemmy culture inheriting from , where that kind of behavior is endemic.
As an enby who’s played around with both masculine and feminine pronouns on the lemmyverse, there’s a more subtle strain as well. People assuming you don’t know things or explaining things to you excessively. Getting more DMs. And a kind of centering of cis men that still happens even in more feminist and trans-inclusive spaces within threads that cover certain topics.
I don’t doubt this at all.
But I think it’s just lemmy being a reflection of real life rather than something that developed as part of lemmy culture, as well as lemmy culture inheriting from 
, where that kind of behavior is endemic.
Ah. Alright. Didn’t know about that.