All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI

[MilkmanConspiracy]

Is BlankEclair a ban-evasion account for Soturnupthelights / Soturnupthefun, or just somebody who happens to have the same posting style who didn't start posting until Soturnupthe* was banned?

Asking for a Checkuser...

I'm starting to suspect we may have a Single Issue Wonk poster on our hands, one obsessed with removing any mention of male or female and insisting on gender neutral terminology. Either that, or they are a nonbinary or pronoun-obsessed person who has something against firmly gender binary terms. The singular they is proper English grammar in some cases, but that would not seem to apply to these suspect edits.

Putting aside any personal feelings I have on the validity of that position, and strictly confining myself to policy, I see no reason to allow this to continue. Most media, even those catered to the LGBT community still refers to people as male or female, and further, their edits tend to be grammatically flawed.

I don't deny there are some works where gender neutral or even blended terms could apply (a few Star Trek novels I've read featured intersex characters who used "hir" to refer to themselves because they were legitimately hermaphroditic in nature), but I would suggest if so, we have these exceptions confined to a new trope if we don't already have one. One character in the anime Majestic Prince leaves the question of their being male, female, or intersex an open question, hence they/them was used for convenience as well, which would also count for that purpose.

I would suggest (given this new account has two edits dating back to August 2024) we ask this user to explain themselves. If they refuse or the Checkuser turns up evidence of socking, we block the account for ban evasion.

If I recall correctly (And if they are all the same person) they were initially obsessed with changing they to he/she or something unwieldy like that (Not a simple "he or she"). When they were corrected with a suggestion to follow the Oxford English Dictionary’s guidance on the subject I think they swung the other way. I suspect this is malicious compliance (Due to repeatedly ignoring attempts by an admin to reach out and have a dialogue), and a weird battle for them to pick.