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When can we stop inserting politics into every little thing? I know it's a big deal at the moment, what with the fascist takeover of our government, but are Linux devs and their moderators really the people we expect to represent all of us in that fight? They don't have the power to help in that capacity.
We should be able to accept people's help in whatever realm they are offering it without trying to force them to help with everything else at the same time. These guys signed up to support open source software. That's an important and helpful thing but it isn't gay rights activism. That is not their area of expertise. They're not supposed to be representing LGBTQ interests in anything except the right to privacy. Quit making them the arbiter of morality in battles they didn't sign up to fight to begin with. It doesn't help anybody. It only redirects anger away from the people that we really should be mad at, namely our absolute disaster of a federal government.
The political part is the mod intervention, not someone saying "I'm queer"
No, the political part is you forcing your sexuality to be discussed in a non-sexual context. I don't care what you do in your bedroom but I don't want to be forced to talk to you about it. It's not relevant to our work therefore we don't need to discuss it at work. Unless you're trying to fuck me I don't need to hear about it at all and that's probably not something you should be doing at work either, certainly not in this context.
Nothing I have said is exclusive to queer people. They are universal rules that everyone should follow.
Nothing they said was sexual. Even if they were saying they are attracted to men (as a man), that is not sexual.
By your logic, no one at work can say they are married (married people are attracted to each other and have sex, how disgusting to force us to talk about your wife at work.)
And don't you DARE say you went on a date recently (dates are romantic, and that is sexual. Stop forcing your straightness on us!)
Also, the trans flag was included, so they weren't even talking about sexuality, just gender.