Looks like my account was banned/restricted for the above interaction, have already sent the mods on world an email asking if they’d be willing to reverse that. Had an episode of psychosis a few months ago where I did say some offensive stuff, (understandably) got a 3 month ban on .lol for that, so could see my account having been flagged.

I uh, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to check others profiles to ensure we are correctly pronouning them… when making a throw away comment that is less than 10 words involving a ludicrously common saying. Jerboa does not show users pronouns. I could switch to an app that DOES show the pronouns, do any Lemmings have a recommendation for a free Lemmy mobile app that has that feature?

Was just going to respond to the user in question to let them know I wasn’t purposefully trying to offend that individual, to discover I’m not able to post or make comments on world now, so figured I’d see what y’alls opinion on the matter is.

  • ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lolOP
    131·
    4 hours ago

    I did not know that was the trans flag. Appreciate ya letting me know >_<

    “The them, the myth… the X”. Forsure, that does seem more meme anyways.

    • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I was staring at that username for quite a bit after reading the comment saying that it was in their username. I did not get it, either.

      Even knowing that there’s a trans flag, and that that’s what is in the username, I wouldn’t know what pronouns to use.

      • ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lolOP
        31·
        3 hours ago

        There are a lotta flags out there. Like dog, most Americans in NYC ouldn’t even point to Iraq on a map, many even pointing to the US when asked where Iraq was… As we were actively invading them post 9/11.

        Id bet 100$ if there was a test of the general populace on knowing what that flag was, the pass rate would be below 5%.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          2 hours ago

          As soon as I realized that it was similar to the Costa Rican flag but with 1 inversion, and switching the vowels of the latter out yielded “Cis”, I had to make the pun.

    • SparrowHawk@feddit.itEnglish
      41·
      3 hours ago

      Happy to help, and don’t feel down for the restriction, in today’s hellworld where people’s identities are constantly and violently challenged it’s hard to not be jumpy when something doesn’t seem right