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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WTF banning trans gamers because of what? Because beating on trans people takes focus from your own gender identity insecurity? Gtfo
Also, and I know this isn't the point. But the word "women" is a noun, the adjective is "female". I know that some misogynistic assholes use "female" as a noun, which from a linguistical POV is just as bad, and it's why some people don't like using "female" as an adjective. But... And it is as I'm writing this, that it dawns on me, that if people should be able to transform, then so should language... Dagnabbit! I just don't like it when people change the language, but I'll wear a rainbow pin, I'll and defend trans people... What does that make me?
Misogyny didn't change "male" and "female" into nouns, they've always functioned as nouns since their first usage in the 1300s, according to some quick research. Also, there's no such thing as linguistic morality, either you can communicate your thoughts with others or you can't.