Sorry for the deluge of top posts but if you are having this conversation on Medium I would counsel caution. If just one of these people complains that you are "bullying" you will be banned. Not suspended, banned, and any partnership program money you have coming won't come.
A week ago I posted a watered-down version of the post you pra…
Sorry for the deluge of top posts but if you are having this conversation on Medium I would counsel caution. If just one of these people complains that you are "bullying" you will be banned. Not suspended, banned, and any partnership program money you have coming won't come.
A week ago I posted a watered-down version of the post you praised as a breath of sane air; I had two responses. One was a woman screaming about "transphobia" (what a dumb word) but the other was some guy whose entire profile was a recitation of his "queer" credentials who admitted (and boasted) that he had not read past my opening sentence. He said that he was gathering a crowd to report my post. I blocked him and deleted the whole thing.
I was banned from Medium a year ago when one of those "nonbinary" twits reported me for "bullying"; my offense was to state, as I do often, that I will not use "they" as a singular pronoun. This person's responses to me were jaw-droppingly savage, bringing my dead mother into it, about the worst I've seen in my three decades online. Red-eyed savagery. Her avatar was a cartoon of a girl snarling in rage.
I had lobbed no insults, not said anything about the buffoonery that I regard "nonbinary" to be, I had just laid down my refusal to concede to an abuse of grammar. The fact that what she wrote to me was monstrously worse than anything I had written made no impression on Medium, they answered me with form letters. I lost a thousand followers and nearly a thousand dollars in PP money I had coming. To say nothing of a year of writing.
All I had done was say that I refused to refer to her or to any other single person as "they." Not that I had any reason to refer to her at all; I had already blocked her.
You have a commanding presence on Medium, but beware; the curators have swallowed the hook, line, and sinker along with the bait on this "trans" thing and if you write about this stuff you're playing with fire.
Sorry for the deluge of top posts but if you are having this conversation on Medium I would counsel caution. If just one of these people complains that you are "bullying" you will be banned. Not suspended, banned, and any partnership program money you have coming won't come.
A week ago I posted a watered-down version of the post you praised as a breath of sane air; I had two responses. One was a woman screaming about "transphobia" (what a dumb word) but the other was some guy whose entire profile was a recitation of his "queer" credentials who admitted (and boasted) that he had not read past my opening sentence. He said that he was gathering a crowd to report my post. I blocked him and deleted the whole thing.
I was banned from Medium a year ago when one of those "nonbinary" twits reported me for "bullying"; my offense was to state, as I do often, that I will not use "they" as a singular pronoun. This person's responses to me were jaw-droppingly savage, bringing my dead mother into it, about the worst I've seen in my three decades online. Red-eyed savagery. Her avatar was a cartoon of a girl snarling in rage.
I had lobbed no insults, not said anything about the buffoonery that I regard "nonbinary" to be, I had just laid down my refusal to concede to an abuse of grammar. The fact that what she wrote to me was monstrously worse than anything I had written made no impression on Medium, they answered me with form letters. I lost a thousand followers and nearly a thousand dollars in PP money I had coming. To say nothing of a year of writing.
All I had done was say that I refused to refer to her or to any other single person as "they." Not that I had any reason to refer to her at all; I had already blocked her.
You have a commanding presence on Medium, but beware; the curators have swallowed the hook, line, and sinker along with the bait on this "trans" thing and if you write about this stuff you're playing with fire.