Poll of the Day > fuck yasss mods scorched earth this shit

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slay queens slayyy

what happened now

What'd I miss?

They suspended SKARDAVNELNATE

I got it mixed up with the other guy. I'm a bit high.

good

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80089308

I can't tell what he said but context clues suggest something transphobic.

Presumably, his previous moderation was for comments aling the lines of "it's not a phobia, it's just disagreeing with the concept of trans people" in another topic, and I'm guessing he just doubled down on that same nonsense immediately after coming back from a warning, which is a pretty reliable way to get purg'd.

Nice

there's only so many ways you can spin closeted transphobia before it becomes moddable, and SKARD is very inflexible in his views. he definitely doubled down too many times into purgatory

It seems someone got a taste of power and they have gone mad with it.

adjl posted...

Presumably, his previous moderation was for comments aling the lines of "it's not a phobia, it's just disagreeing with the concept of trans people" in another topic, and I'm guessing he just doubled down on that same nonsense immediately after coming back from a warning, which is a pretty reliable way to get purg'd.

well the literal meaning of phobia is fear

Krazy_Kirby posted...

well the literal meaning of phobia is fear

Yea and?

You can go to google and see a number of papers arguing that hate based phobias do not come from a place of fear going back decades. However, that is irrelevant as we still don't have another term for hate based phobias, no one is confused as to what the term means. The only people I've ever seen attempt to argue over the definition of phobia is bigots trying to claim they aren't bigots because they aren't afraid.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

well the literal meaning of phobia is fear

As a suffix, it's just as frequently used to refer to any aversions. Hydrophobic residues, for example, aren't afraid of water (oil has no nervous system, after all), they just avoid it. That applies socially as well.

Though that's not to say transphobia isn't frequently rooted in fear. A major component of it is homophobic men being afraid that they'll end up being attracted to somebody that used to be a man, which is why MtF trans people face so much more overt hatred than FtM's. There are also people that object on the basis of a poor understanding of science and health, which is less fear-based (although one could potentially argue that it stems from a poorly substantiated fear of going against established science, which could qualify as a phobia), but you certainly cannot pretend fear isn't a factor when so much anti-trans rhetoric consists of explicit fearmongering ("men" sneaking into women's bathrooms and other gendered spaces to rape them, trans women pushing cis women out of sports, etc.).

adjl posted...

when so much anti-trans rhetoric consists of explicit fearmongering ("men" sneaking into women's bathrooms and other gendered spaces to rape them, trans women pushing cis women out of sports, etc.).

It's not entirely different from when people didn't want to allow men to be teachers with young kids, because of the assumption that homosexuals were automatically pedophiles, and also sex-crazed in general.

But it's also more complicated because there is a biological component.

HornedLion posted...

It seems someone got a taste of power and they have gone mad with it.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/5/0/AAXuu6AADdpK.jpg

actual post from an actual mod talking about Trayvon martin. really fucked if you ask me.