A request to change the docs etc for those of us who aren't human. (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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We were wondering if the docs etc here could be rewritten in such a way so as to not call all of us human since some of us are not.

Much like being transgender, being otherkin, alter{human/being} or transspecies can have a lot of dysphoria attached to it and we have had to at least explicitly tell one person on lemmy that we are not human even though it is in our profile.

We think that being more inclusive is always a good thing and will gladly work with those who can edit the docs etc in order to find more inclusive ways to say what needs to be said without misspeciesing any{one/many}.

Thanks for reading this and we hope this finds y'all well.

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[-] fwygon@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As an otherkin; I can personally attest that I don't personally mind being called human; but that's because one of my OtherSelf entities is an angel; which is humanoid enough to confuse some.

So we don't consider it malicious usually unless it's done in a specific situation/context.

Fwy am also plural too; but we speak in unity as a System via Melody; our resident Flygon/Angel.

I don't mind speaking as if we are human though personally though; and do understand that some Others do not feel the same; as my partner in this realm most certainly dislikes some human terms. Fwy still gets occasionally corrected when fwy absentmindedly drops human words in conversations. It's something we're familiar with; and I'm genuinely glad the admin team is willing to hear things out and make things a little more inclusive where it makes sense when they can.