Always fun to write a lengthy effort-post only for a thread to be closed. We'll see, I guess.
People were just asking for a "yes" or even a "no" response to a question, and things could be discussed from there; I feel that want was very clearly stated by a lot of people? Assuming people would attack you over doing that and specifically that this makes it not worth doing is what is actually dismissive; even if some people may have said that (and frankly - fair enough?), it is clear that many others just wanted clarification on this point. I think if you engaged further with trans people here, or even just took in their posts on this, you would see you're really not stuck in quite the situation you think you are.
Regarding the bit about Black Chamber, with all due respect to them: if I were someone who did not want to become engaged with the issues around Cyberpunk, I would simply not post Cyberpunk threads while sporting a Cyberpunk avatar, and become known for doing the former? Because to my understanding, literally the entire reason that Cyberpunk threads are still around here is to keep discussion of its issues alive. So while they are free to talk about the game itself, I think they should absolutely be expected to regularly engage with that if they want to be in those threads, let alone making those threads. Constantly interrogated, obviously not, but I would the best solution would be to make your stances pretty damn clear, even bluntly so, and that's all people wanted from them.
People were just asking for a "yes" or even a "no" response to a question, and things could be discussed from there; I feel that want was very clearly stated by a lot of people? Assuming people would attack you over doing that and specifically that this makes it not worth doing is what is actually dismissive; even if some people may have said that (and frankly - fair enough?), it is clear that many others just wanted clarification on this point. I think if you engaged further with trans people here, or even just took in their posts on this, you would see you're really not stuck in quite the situation you think you are.
Regarding the bit about Black Chamber, with all due respect to them: if I were someone who did not want to become engaged with the issues around Cyberpunk, I would simply not post Cyberpunk threads while sporting a Cyberpunk avatar, and become known for doing the former? Because to my understanding, literally the entire reason that Cyberpunk threads are still around here is to keep discussion of its issues alive. So while they are free to talk about the game itself, I think they should absolutely be expected to regularly engage with that if they want to be in those threads, let alone making those threads. Constantly interrogated, obviously not, but I would the best solution would be to make your stances pretty damn clear, even bluntly so, and that's all people wanted from them.
