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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Removing the mod is telling people they must select a pronoun.

No, it defaults to body type.

This option is literally nothing to people who don't care - and the people who care enough to dislike it, are assholes. They have their private reasons and their private reasons are bad. Bigotry is not an OK idea. We've had that discussion, it went very predictably, and it has a right answer. We don't need to endlessly litigate whether we've been too harsh about demonstrable bigotry.

A website saying 'no thank you' to an act of petty bigotry is a non-event. There is no fucking danger in moderation excluding that. That's what moderation... is. That's why we have human beings reviewing stuff, instead of offering an unfiltered pile of everything all the time.

In this context of moderation: game modifications must successfully and safely do something useful. This fails on two out of three points. It successfully removes a feature. But that feature is easily ignored with no side effects or consequences, and the blindingly obvious motivation behind its removal is overt sexual prejudice. While safe in the sense that it won't brick your computer, it's plainly a threatening message to the people who use this feature - it is dehumanizing. It is treating the possibility of their existence as something intolerable, to be excised. To be physically removed.

You can still install this stupid mod. It hasn't been erased from reality. It's just not approved on one website with clear rules against exactly that sort of thing. Making bad things harder to do is not some betrayal of your right to make terrible decisions. A lot of things that are possible have barriers for good reasons.

And none of you grasping at freedom as an excuse to entertain bigotry seem remember - we all have a right to freedom of association. We don't want to deal with that shit. You can't make us, and still pretend you care about choice.

this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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