{"id":1468,"date":"2012-01-18T09:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T09:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/forums\/discussion\/is-your-chat-room-welcome-welcoming"},"modified":"2012-01-18T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T09:18:39","slug":"is-your-chat-room-welcome-welcoming","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/forums\/discussion\/is-your-chat-room-welcome-welcoming","title":{"rendered":"Is your chat room welcome welcoming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope this doesn't come across as being too precious...<\/p>\n<p>TgR is a home for the gender diverse...we embrace diversity and hopefully don't insist that everyone has a dream to become Ms Perfect ( or Mr Perfect for that matter).<br \/>\nWe do have members who are not treading the well worn path of the M2F journey, and I like to think that TgR is welcoming to them, and our response attracts even greater diversity.<\/p>\n<p>So the alarms bells ring in my head when I hear something said that implies that TgR is just a place for boys who wannabe girls.<\/p>\n<p>And in that context I think the greetings some members use in the chat room perhaps lacks sensitivity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bbcode_quote\">\n<div class=\"bbcode_quote_head\">Quote:<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbcode_quote_body\">Evening girls<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbcode_quote\">\n<div class=\"bbcode_quote_head\">Quote:<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbcode_quote_body\">Hallo ladies<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although you personally may consider everyone as stereotypical female it might be appreciated if you said:<\/p>\n<div class=\"bbcode_quote\">\n<div class=\"bbcode_quote_head\">Quote:<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbcode_quote_body\">Evening everyone<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>or chose some other form of welcome that doesn't rely on gender.<\/p>\n<p><i>If I was in a large room full of people and someone shouted out \"Men to the right, women to the left\", I would just stand still.<br \/>\nI don't see that I need to \"fit in\" by pretending to be one or the other. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","topic-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1468","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-tag?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}