by metonymy » Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:52 am
I'm sorry y'all think that supporting non-hetero people is too SJW to be palatable, but I'm still going to avidly promote those ideas for stickers. After all, they are sticker suggestions. I am not meaning to start a debate - that's already going in the 18+ forums. But instead I am explaining and defending why I think these suggestions for stamps are valid, logical, and a good fit for CS.
CS has already done a stamp in support of equality. It's a natural progression in my eyes to spread that support further. And as I said before, it's really hard to tell somebody's preferred pronouns online! You can't see if they 'look like a girl', after all, you have very little information to work that out. I think some stamps about preferred pronouns - including neutral ones - would be a neat and elegant solution to the problem. You wouldn't need to be queer to use them, you would just use them if you wanted to give people a polite heads-up about what pronoun to use when referring to you.
I think if we're going to create stamps to celebrate people who are geeky or nerdy, let's go ahead and follow through and make sure our non-hetero moderators and players feel specifically welcome. c:
Of course, I think other bits of equality are very worth promoting as well, but they may be less easy to summarize into stamps. There's no flag for racial equality that has quite the same recognition as pride flags. Extending the range of countries who get stamps would be a great way to expand things along a similar line, though! I know a lot of people have posted feeling slightly left out. A good 'list' to go off of may be to go to the international forum and see which countries have threads, and to make sure they are represented.
I would love to see specific genre support as well, especially if it's not just genres in reading. Romance, mystery, fantasy, steampunk... and if steampunk gets in, I will beg on my hands and knees for cyberpunk too! c:
Another good suggestion I saw floating around a few pages back is a better selection of one-square stamps to make decorating easier. I would love to see more of those, even if they're plain dots or rounded squares.
More pastel-colors and perhaps some lace would also greatly please my inner mori girl haha!
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