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Looks like my account was banned/restricted for the above interaction, have already sent the mods on world an email asking if they'd be willing to reverse that. Had an episode of psychosis a few months ago where I did say some offensive stuff, (understandably) got a 3 month ban on .lol for that, so could see my account having been flagged.

I uh, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to check others profiles to ensure we are correctly pronouning them… when making a throw away comment that is less than 10 words involving a ludicrously common saying. Jerboa does not show users pronouns. I could switch to an app that DOES show the pronouns, do any Lemmings have a recommendation for a free Lemmy mobile app that has that feature?

Edit: Edie chimed in, Jerboa does show pronouns. It's a formatting issue with mobile vs browser (She has them on individual text lines so they don't appear on mobile).

Was just going to respond to the user in question to let them know I wasn't purposefully trying to offend that individual, to discover I'm not able to post or make comments on world now, so figured I'd see what y'alls opinion on the matter is.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

If it's an ambiguous name you might have to check. Fortunately, Edie is an unambiguously female name, and the clear majority of binary trans people pick clearly gender-coded names.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Fortunately, Edie is an unambiguously female name,

Is it? My first glance would assume it's some variant spelling of Eddie. Never run into anyone called Edie.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose it's unambiguous to you, but I had never heard of the name before

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

I always read it as Eddie πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

It... It is? I am not a native speaker but I would've for sure thought it was a male name...

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's an unambiguos female name in english maybe. OP might be from an english-speaking country, but you really can't make this sort of assumption on a global website

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you really can't make this sort of assumption

That was the original point about gendered language but you seem to have flipped it on its head.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

I just got woooshed. My apologies.