BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoCan't we just start calling it "Formerly Twitter" instead?message-squaremessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1164arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1144arrow-down1message-squareCan't we just start calling it "Formerly Twitter" instead?BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square74fedilinkfile-text
minus-square𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up66arrow-down11·6 months agoAs a trans person, I like to remind everyone you are not just allowed but encouraged to deadname Twitter
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down2·6 months agoCalling it deadnaming implies Twitter chose the name X. Twitter did not make that decision, thus calling Twitter Twitter is in no danger of offending Twitter.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up16·6 months agoGoing to deadname Twitter as long as musk is deadnaming his daughter
minus-squarePrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoOohhh that’s a good one.
minus-squareflicker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·6 months agoOoh. Excellent point. I will be disrespectfully deadnaming Twitter from now on.
minus-squareBoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months ago…what the heck is “deadnaming”?
minus-square𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-26 months agoUsing a trans persons’s birth name rather than their preferred name. If done purposefully, it’s extremely insulting.
minus-squareBoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoThanks, I hadn’t heard the term.
minus-squareSorse@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoDoesn’t have to be a trans person
minus-squareTired and bored@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down12·6 months agoAs a cisgender person I’m so sorry for the shit other cisgender write on Twitter
minus-squareArcane_Trixster@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down18·6 months agoYour virtue signal is a little bright. You should adjust the wattage.
minus-squareTired and bored@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down5·6 months agoI’m sorry I did not understand? Sarcasm perhaps?
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·6 months agoAre you asking whether you’re sorry?
minus-squareTired and bored@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI’m asking what the other person wrote
As a trans person, I like to remind everyone you are not just allowed but encouraged to deadname Twitter
Calling it deadnaming implies Twitter chose the name X. Twitter did not make that decision, thus calling Twitter Twitter is in no danger of offending Twitter.
Going to deadname Twitter as long as musk is deadnaming his daughter
Oohhh that’s a good one.
Ooh. Excellent point. I will be disrespectfully deadnaming Twitter from now on.
…what the heck is “deadnaming”?
Using a trans persons’s birth name rather than their preferred name. If done purposefully, it’s extremely insulting.
Thanks, I hadn’t heard the term.
Doesn’t have to be a trans person
As a cisgender person I’m so sorry for the shit other cisgender write on Twitter
Your virtue signal is a little bright. You should adjust the wattage.
I’m sorry I did not understand? Sarcasm perhaps?
Are you asking whether you’re sorry?
I’m asking what the other person wrote