diff --git a/locale/en/blog/creating-new-language-version.md b/locale/en/blog/creating-new-language-version.md index 1e53156c..decd8def 100644 --- a/locale/en/blog/creating-new-language-version.md +++ b/locale/en/blog/creating-new-language-version.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # How to create a new language version of Pronouns.page -06.12.2020 | [@andrea](/@andrea) +2020-12-06 | [@andrea](/@andrea) So you're interested in helping us extend the platform to your native language? Awesome! đŸ„° diff --git a/locale/en/blog/throwing-around-queerphobia.md b/locale/en/blog/throwing-around-queerphobia.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..709163b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/locale/en/blog/throwing-around-queerphobia.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +# On throwing around queerphobia accusations + +2021-08-19 | [@andrea](/@andrea) + +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?