[en][blog] On throwing around queerphobia accusations

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 # How to create a new language version of Pronouns.page
 
-<small>06.12.2020 | [@andrea](/@andrea)</small>
+<small>2020-12-06 | [@andrea](/@andrea)</small>
 
 So you're interested in helping us extend the platform to your native language? Awesome! 🥰
 

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+# On throwing around queerphobia accusations
+
+<small>2021-08-19 | [@andrea](/@andrea)</small>
+
+One day we were having technical issues: the emails with login codes were being sent out as requested,
+but for many people they were ending up in the spam folder.
+That day we got the following email:
+
+> “Give me my new code ya homophobes😑”
+
+Another thing that we see quite often in people's cards is a description like this one:
+
+> “It didn’t let me add paw/pawself and boe/boeself kinda transphobic”
+
+Sure, policing someone's neopronouns would be transphobic. And that's why we don't do that.
+Paw can easily link to paw's pronouns by putting in all five grammatical forms
+([paw/paw/paw's/paw's/pawself](https://en.pronouns.page/paw/paw/paw's/paw's/pawself)),
+by using a shorthand notation for nameself pronouns ([:paw](https://en.pronouns.page/:paw)),
+or by using a generator that's available in the [Pronouns](/pronouns) section.
+We talk about it in the instructions to the form –
+if only people would read them before rushing to get angry…
+
+But, oh well… It's not like it's a big deal for us personally. We'll roll our eyes and move on.
+But the issue is a bit bigger than that.
+How many times have you heard someone jokingly say something like
+“They've run out of my favourite pretzels, how homophobic!”?
+It seems to be a common joke in the community, isn't it?
+
+Sure, it might be funny, it might help blow off some steam, or whatnot.
+But think about how it **dilutes the meaning of the word**.
+There's _actual_ queerphobia destroying people's lives all around the world –
+but you use that word to describe a _minor inconvenience_ completely unrelated to your gender or orientation?
+
+Think about it… If you message a group of queer volunteers doing their best to create a free website for the community,
+and you call them “homophobes”, how do you expect allocishet people take queerphobia seriously?