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Hashtags
As annoying as they can be, some sort of implementation of hashtags can be useful. For example, if I'm attempting to find a study on o/STEM on puberty blockers, this can act as another way to pull up related posts assuming the OP tagged it as such.
Tumblr also ran with a really creative use of the hashtag system when developers observed individuals talking in the hashtags to each other as a means of adding more quiet thoughts and commentary without wanting to detract from the original post. I'm not suggesting this to be implemented here (it makes less sense here for that imo), but I am raising this as just a creative example of a hashtag system being used beyond the means of just filtering content and adding to user communication. More features that add to communication and filtering in small ways allows for a culture to be created out of such features in surprising ways, in which a greater system can then be built and shape platforms uniquely.
It's also, and this is just a thought, something that might be useful to gage user interest in a topic if there was a way to track how often users assigned a specific hashtag to something (1.2k #asphalt), which may be visible to just you as admins or visible to users as a whole. It can be a feature within circles (i.e., searching "#possum" in o/whatever only pulls up posts with this tag from o/whatever), or it can be used as a general site tool (#possum would pull up whatever is tagged as #possum across the site). The search bar does a lot of this already, but I'm just voicing ideas.
Hashtags might be a more appropriate suggestion for later rather than sooner to prioritize other things and allow the site to evolve, or they might not be relevant to how this platform is designed, but I wanted to leave that idea here nonetheless.
Edit: Perhaps hash tags are sort of similar to flairs? So maybe the flair feature can be more refined, or replaced, or whatever.
The alphabet soup group focuses on gender now. They are the gender ideologist group. LGB is the only sexual minority group left anyway. Those who still recognize sexual minorities and their sex-based attraction as a meaningful frame don't fit in the alphabet soup. And the alphabet soup is full of straight people pretending to be sexual minorities, just as much as it is full of people pretending to be the opposite sex. There's also an alarming number of bisexuals who think they're gay or lesbian because they prefer feminine or masculine styles. They don't experience exclusive attraction to one sex and assume it doesn't exist. So, alphabet soup is a bunch of roleplayers who just aren't satisfied with being themselves.
There's also an alarming number of bisexuals who think they're gay or lesbian because they prefer feminine or masculine styles. They don't experience exclusive attraction to one sex and assume it doesn't exist.
Yeah, I kinda can't get over the bisexuals who keep saying "everyone is a little bi" and pushing "sexual fluidity" on lesbians. I can't get over it because you think they would know better! I mean, I can understand straight teenagers thinking it's "special" and "cool" to call themselves "queer" and not realizing the harm they're doing by co-opting our oppression, but bisexuals should really know better. And yet, they don't.
I think some of them are just dumb and legit don't understand that some people are 100% straight or 100% gay.
Like on some other forum, I saw some bisexual people talking about a "lesbian" who liked occasionally sleeping with men. They were calling her a "lesbian" just because she was butch, but it's like . . . Bisexual women can be masculine, too. So can straight women!!!
But no. Because this masculine woman was banging men and women both, these bisexuals held it as proof that lesbians secretly like men and everyone is a little bi and "lesbian" is just a label for women who only date women (rather than the correct definition: women only ATTRACTED to women) . . . Just utter stupidity.
People are so deeply brainwashed by gender roles and stereotypes, they don't realize that a woman can be masculine or feminine regardless of sexual orientation. Those two things (personality and sexual orientation) have nothing to do with each other!!!
They really can't wrap their heads around someone being homosexual and wanting nothing to do with the opposite sex. If I had it my way, I would be living in female only communities. I've even heard gay me say they want to be around only men all the time. Doesn't bother me. I get it.
I also read that on autostraddle (back when I still read stuff from autostraddle) that apparently lesbians don't mind sleeping with men, and I thought no, if a woman don't mind sleeping with men, then she definitely isn't a lesbian. I used to be quite upset that they portrayed Julian Moore's character in The kids are alright as a lesbian, because she was bisexual. No real lesbian is going to jump a guy's bones or watch male gay porn when you're having sex with a woman. That movie boiled my blood!
bUt... wHaT aBoUt tHe CIVIL RIGHTS oPpReSsiOn of "agenders", "demiromantics", "freysexuals", "plurisexuals", "sapio-non-conforming-demipansexuals", "AFAB trans girls", etc?
At this point I'm ashamed to admit I'm a lesbian.. Not because of conservatives saying it's a sin, but because of the idiots who are associated with LGBT. Fuck everything past the B. Embarrassing at best, and setting us back at the worst.
Get the L out
LGB are sexual orientations.
Everything else is gender identity.
They have nothing in common.
I feel the exact same way.