So regarding offensive names...

[Saefinn]

Ah, yes. Was waiting for this exact response. Glad you were so fast on this overused and void argument.

Literally anything will be taken as an offense nowadays. Calling someone a "he" in chat because that's likely the general assumption of many people? Straight to the gulag with you. Commenting on a glam in a way that is not "OMGOSH I LOVE THAT SO MUCHHHHHHHH"? Straight to the gulag as well. Even the slightest bit of constructive criticism is met with the classic "you dont pay my sub" attitude and a report. So, straight to gulag I might repeat. And I stress this again, someone got a ban for using an emote because someone else felt hurt in their bubble by it. Now you try not to laugh while you tell me this isn't a massive overreaction by whiny people that can not for the love of anything holy accept a differing opinion to their own. Go ahead.

“Oh he was just...”
“It’s she...”
“Sorry, she was just...”

This is exactly how it normally goes. It happened to an FC mate when we did a E1S run, the guy kept referring to her as ‘he’ after she corrected him because this guy was very ‘dudebro’ and seemed to not be used to raiding with women? Absolutely nothing happened out of it. Nobody was offended and we just ran the content. People in my FC, myself included are very liberal, so I'd expect to see more of the stereotype?

Like an absolute minority would kick off about this. Literally the only time I’ve seen that happen was when I was handling a complaint from a customer and they were literally doing it to fish for compensation, because as they said themselves “but Amazon gave me compensation”. My experience of customer service is that customers will try any old crap to get compensation. Suffice to say I had more balls than Amazon customer support and still refused and...nothing happened, the guy got the message, no gulags. I have an offensive sense of humour, have yet to be thrown in a gulag and if it offends somebody, I apologise, adjust and move on.

I’ve also been on the receiving end of “you don’t pay for my sub” when I told a tank how to do mechanics. I’m not in a gulag. Added bonus we kicked him out of the party. Still no gulag.

I’ve complemented glamours. I’m not in a gulag. There was a thread where somebody was asking about how to compliment people’s glamours, the overwhelming consensus was “just don’t make it a flirt or be creepy”, which is not unreasonable. It is not the compliment that is the issue it’s the delivery and context.

I get that there are people who do overreact and kick off over very little, but they represent a much smaller number of people than you're implying with your very hyperbolic outlook.

It's also like the "did you just assume my gender" trope, I've never seen anybody trans or non-binary ever do anything like that. They'll just normally correct you or say nothing at all. Before I had facial hair, old people would mistake me for a lady because of my long hair and baby face (as my late teens and very earlier 20's), so I'd correct them or let it slide because, people are human and make mistakes, people misgender and in fairness most people tend to realise that and it's not actually a big deal. Normally people will then have a problem if your response is to double down. And either they choose to confront you about it, leave or ignore it. But as my life philosophy goes, mistakes happen, it's a question of what you do about it, not the fact you've made a mistake.