I don't understand why HQ deleted that thread, either. Since it was pro them and anti people who want to shut them down.
In terms of FWR - behind one other board, AIBU, I think, it's the most popular access point for the entire site.
In terms of it being rude, or viperish, I wandered onto AIBU the other day to find someone had called someone else a pathetic bitch, over something so unutterably innocuous, it was difficult to believe.
But what is really getting my goat is the assertion, or more likely assumption, that deletions on FWR directly correlate to transphobia.
For example,
So many posts get deleted and many posters have been banned. How does this happen if the comments weren't deemed offensive?
And
We yes. But many of us agree with those rules and think that posting against them, is offensive, vitriolic or abusive.
When this is the reality:
Oh drat, I accidentally said something factual and true without using approved language. Sorry MNHQ.
I'll rephrase.
A large person of the sex that produces small gametes known as sperm barges past two much smaller people of the opposite sex (the sex that produces eggs) grabbing the microphone from the older egg producer sex person and literally shoving the small child (who is of the sex that can be criminalised for attempting reproductive autonomy) in an attempt to dominate the entire proceedings.
There.
No talk guidelines broken, no accidentally calling sperm-producers by male pronouns, and in accordance with MNHQ rules I've only mentioned biological sex where it is permissible and relevant without resorting to language like man, woman, girl.
Please don't delete this version MNHQ.
Reduced to entire paragraphs that make no sense unless you're willing to forensically interpret them word by word.
But yeah, that's 'vitriol'. 🙄