Quote Originally Posted by Kolsykol View Post
Did he say '' that's stupid '' or did he actually harass someone?
Because I think there is a difference.
You can argue that it's irresponsible if you want and I'd probably agree that if you have a large following then you should be careful with that but at the same time you can't expect people with tens to hundreds of thousands of eyes on them almost all day every day to not make mistakes.
No one is that flawless, I mean to put things into perspective just recently one of the biggest Socialist Twitch Streamers blurted out the N-word live on Stream.

It's not Transphobia either, I've never seen him misgender someone who's actually Trans and I'd be *extremely* surprised if I saw that.
Tbh I think that even within LGBTQ communities most people probably think that the hundreds of pronouns are dumb, like at some point it becomes incredibly performative.
That doesn't mean that you hate Trans people or don't acknowledge them or things like non-binary people etc.

To be clear I am not saying it's good, I don't mock people for it I kinda just shrug it off.
But at some point I do think that it becomes dumb and I think that most people would agree even if they're part of the LGBTQ community.
For clarification, I stated "directed harassment", which is a tool that someone with his following can do. He's allowed to have opinions about things, but someone with as large of a following as his saying "people with pronouns in bios are clowns that you should avoid" does nothing but embolden the hateful in his following. The tweet is still up, and was made 3 years ago, so it could be arguable that he has learned and knows better; however, from just a quick search on twitter for the sake of a quick reply, I couldn't find any such tweet as such. People can make mistakes or not know things, but the important thing is to learn and improve, to actually take the steps. I'd also say with the size of a following someone like him has, people like that should very visibly and publically make improvements. Searching "pronouns" from asmon shows no such thing, even if he's had it buried in a stream somewhere.

It's still transphobia, but I believe the term is moreso microagression. As someone in multiple LGBTQ communities, the general consensus is that "people are free to be who they want and fighting with eachother when we have more important things to handle in regards to our status in society achieves nothing". It's like how transphobic tendencies in the Olympics recently led to the ban of some cis women for how their bodies are.

Edit: Yeah, no, I don't think you condone stuff. Apologies if this feels targeted! I'm just trying to do my best to help people get a cool head on their shoulders and understand things from a broader perspective, definitely not here trying to throw accusatory fingers.