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If they're not enforcing it or planning to, why even do it? Ballerinacat69 will just say their name is ballerinacat69 and then what has anyone gained? In the e
by stormbrew 9y ago
If they're not enforcing it or planning to, why even do it? Ballerinacat69 will just say their name is ballerinacat69 and then what has anyone gained?
In the end they're going to get users reporting people or even harassing people for having "obvious" fake names (and many of those reports will be against trans people using the name they actually use).
So either they're going to have to do something about fake names or they've just established a cultural norm for their site that will be toxic for many of their users.
Or you could just assume people are being hysterical as your first default assumption I suppose.
- dvt 9y agoYou're making it seem like my default assumption is completely off-base, and yet I think that "harassing people for having 'obvious' fake names" is reaching so hard, my assumption is almost innocuous by comparison. I mean, just think about it: why would people harass someone with a name of "xyz123" but not harass someone with a handle of "xyz123." The distinction is a non-distinction and, yes, people are being hysterical for no good reason. Publications like The Verge (and Vox, and Kotaku, to name a few others) pander this kind of social hysteria as a means to get clicks, and by extension, ad revenue. I personally think it's disgusting.
- stormbrew 9y agoPeople harass trans people for having 'fake names' all the time. Trust me, it's not something I'm making up.
- draugadrotten 9y agoAnd worse, like this case from Philly illustrates. http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a47329/transgender-woman-beaten-shot-to-death-by-group-of-men/ http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a47329/transgender...