About the Rules & Moderation category (Part 1)

That’s bad because you’re calling her a boy.

It doesn’t really matter what you put in front of it.

i mean yes. hence why i said straightforwardly bad

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that would be a sluresque use of the word femboy

Yeah I’m agreeing with you to be clear

Like there’s scenarios where some people just really don’t wanna hear a specific word that people have used to demean them and in interpersonal contexts it can be entirely fair to not use those words because they asked. But that’s not a Moderation Policy situation

Is femboy a slur?

What

Also we ended up with a scenario of somebody who was not a trans woman getting mad on behalf of trans women because two trans women were posting Femboy Fishing memes and at that point it’s like

According to some people yes. As you can tell by the fact that I use the word plenty I don’t agree with them generally

anyway while we’re doing entirely arbitrary powerscaling who would win in a fight between a buffalo and a raven

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i need to know by tomorrow

you’re literally a slur sayer

how is tgirl a slur? is twoman a slur? I can get not wanting to be called a girl and instead wanting to be called a woman but

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Theoretically, how would you consider somebody calling her a tomboy?
Personally I’d still imagine it as a dogwhistle of sorts if heard from an untrusted individual, providing a technical frame of defence whilst still likening her behaviour to that of a boy.

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i think i would ask for her opinion rather than speculate

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I feel like every time I’ve heard the word tomboy it’s never been used in a malicious way

something something coopted by terfs probably

Surely there’s a TierZoo video covering this.