This is at least 5 years back but I didn't follow it too closely, IIRC they had a number of people leave over their refusal to go "we are entirely unpolitical" which of course would be a stupid thing to be for a creative writing site. I think it came after they cleaned up shop with their QA and threw out a shitload of grimdark edgelord bullshit that accumulated.

Wasn't Public Universal Friend nonbinary and afab? The male pronouns are throwing me off.

Very much intentional, maybe go through it again

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Very much intentional, maybe go through it again

Either my browser isn't rendering the page correctly (there's a big blank spot in the middle) or I missed something

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What's the last thing you see on the page? There is absolutely a blank spot in there but it's intentional

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Footnotes

'Doc' refers to Jr. Researcher Nicholson's direct supervisor, Dr. James Bendel

I get that the junior researcher was also non-binary or trans, but I don't get why everyone else was calling the PUF by male pronouns. Did people do that during the Friend's lifetime?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 1 points 13 hours ago

I'm not well versed on the History of real life PUF enough to answer that one, but for the SCP:

spoiler

PUF is getting deadnamed is one of the ways the author shows that it's still not safe for trans people. Both the previous institute and the SCP Foundation are part of the problem.

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