Ghazi
A community for progressive issues, social justice and LGBT+ causes in media, gaming, entertainment and tech.
Official replacement for Reddit's r/GamerGhazi
Content should be articles, video essays, podcasts about topics relevant to the forum. No memes, single images or tweets/toots/... please!
Community rules:
Be respectful and civil with each other. Don't be a jerk. There is a real human being on the other side of your screen. See also the Blahaj.Zone Community Rules
No bigotry of any kind allowed. Making racist, sexist, trans-/homo-/queerphobic, otherwise demeaning and hateful comments is not ok. Disabilities and mental illnesses are not to be used as insults and should not be part of your comment unless speaking of your own or absolutely relevant.
No gatekeeping and being rude to people who don't agree with you. Leave “gamer” stereotypes out of your comment (e.g. sexless, neck bearded, teenaged, basement-dwelling, etc). Don't compare people to animals, or otherwise deny their humanity. Even if you think someone is the worst human on the planet, do not wish death or harm upon them.
No "justice porn". Posts regarding legal action and similar is allowed, but celebrating someone being harmed is not.
Contrarianism for its own sake is unnecessary and not welcome.
No planning operations, no brigading, no doxxing or similar activities allowed.
Absolutely no defense of GamerGate and other right-wing harassment campaigns, no TERFs and transphobia, racism, dismissing of war crimes and praise of fascists. This includes “JAQing off”, intentionally asking leading questions while pretending to be a neutral party. This also applies to other forms of authoritarianism and authoritarian or criminal actions by liberal or leftist governments.
NSFW threads, such as ones discussing erotic art, pornography and sex work, must be tagged as such.
Moderators can take action even if none of the rules above are broken.
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lmao like Lemmy is any better. every trans related thread is filled with trans-med apologists, or straight up trans-meds. TikTok, Tumblr, honestly also YouTube... all have thriving lgbtq communities and are proprietary. I know there are def downsides and issues with data being sold, but just bc a platform isn't propriety, that does not mean it'll be less filled with bigoted people.
In my experience which instance you're on (and, as a result, which instances populate your feed) heavily influences how much transmedicalism (and other bigotries) you encounter.
From what I see on your profile page, you mostly interact with lemmy.world communities. That's the biggest instance, that received the largest influx of reddit-quitters, notably.
In case you haven't encountered them, you might want to take a look at some of the communities hosted on lemmy.blahaj.zone.
I've been on many instances and have multiple accounts. Yes, I do agree it varies, but unfortunately outside the safe haven of blahaj and some leftist spaces, it's pretty consistently bad.
Fair enough
Not my experience here at all
Just looked up "transgender" for recent posts, here is one with many comments denying the ongoing genocidal legislation in the UK
https://lemmy.world/post/17236126?scrollToComments=true
Another thread I was just in had people saying JK Rowling didn't seem that bad, and had some good points.
Ok fair enough. I don't see comments there, I think I blocked that community
Wtf is trans-med?
The idea that people who don’t experience dysphoria or who don’t wish to fully transition aren’t actually trans. This also excludes non binary trans people.
So like “I feel like a woman inside, though I have boy parts, but I have no intention or desire to change my body” kind of thing?
The feeling like a particular gender inside is an outdated way of looking at transness. Some trans people might describe their feelings that way but it’s mostly used by cis people who try to understand being trans.
To answer your question though: gender dysphoria or euphoria does not have to be about how the body looks. Some trans people only experience it socially, which in an ideal world would mean that they didn’t have to transition.
There can also be many other reasons why a trans person wouldn’t want to transition (fully). Many trans people choose not to have bottom surgery because it’s an invasive surgery and might not be worth it to them.
Transcendental Meditation? /s
To be blunt, there is way more toxicity and extreme views on Lemmy than on Reddit. I've seen worse things in 15 months of Lemmy than I've seen in 15 users of Reddit use.
I have to hard disagree. I went back to Reddit for a few days recently and the comments were a a cesspool of far-right views & alt-right views. It was like 50% off every comment section turned into r/TrueUnpopularOpinion, under any post that's slightly political you'll get downvoted for stating that trans people exist or that misogyny exists, and told how white people are disprivileged and discriminated against
The worst one by far though was under a pizzacake comic about how women dealing with dangerous/creepy men going after them frequently from childhood leads to them being extremely cautious/scared of men, which men then take as the woman being a bitch. You can only imagine how heated that got and the brigade of conservatives and centrists defending the conservatives lol
My feeling is Lemmy and Reddit both suck terribly. Reddit has the advantage of having more people, so left-leaning subreddits are just larger by default, and there is a higher population of people who aren't white IT guys. Lemmy users, in my experience, are also sexist, transphobic etc, but are very eloquent about it and mods will jump on you for telling a transphobe they're an asshole. Lemmy is up it's ass on "civility" rules, but these are enforced unequally depending on what opinions you are sharing. Basically if you downplay genocide but say it without swearing, that is considered somehow more civil than telling transphobes to fuck off.
Just curious, are you on Hexbear? lemmy.world isn't federated with them so you may not have seen their posts/posters. They're pretty harsh on transphobes and are one of the best trans spaces i've been on.
I made an account but haven't used it much, seemed a bit slow and I like to use Lemmy for news. I agree though, the vibe is completely different!!
Understandable, it does get a little slow at times.
Come participate in our trans megathread sometime!