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A series of Tweets.

The first shows no author, and reads:

What does deadname mean?

The second is by Logan☭Lycanthrope @Ciroctopussy, and is a screenshot of the Dragonball Wiki, reading:

in: Terminology

Deadnaming

Deadnaming is the use of the birth or other former name (i.e. a name that is “dead”) of a transgender or non-binary person without their consent

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The third Tweet is by reby @ rebyricks

Why dragonball wiki of all places

  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    33·
    22 days ago

    Are people censoring “consent” now? On Twitter of all places?

    Truly, the last safe haven for free speech.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      39·
      22 days ago

      Twitter would be the first place I’d expect to censor “consent”, since getting bought out by America’s favourite transphobe and serial abuser of power dynamics…

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      22 days ago

      I assume it’s been reposted to Instagram, Facebook, reddit, etc a couple dozen times and the censor happened somewhere in there

  • potatobro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    30·
    22 days ago

    Probly because Vegeta and Raditz constantly deadnames Goku

    Edit: I’m dumb, Goku isnt trans or nb (as far as I know)

    • decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      59·
      22 days ago

      Vegeta : What’s your gender?

      Goku : Fighting

      Vegeta : I mean what do you identify as?

      Goku : A super Saiyan

      Vegeta : What’s in your pants?!

      Goku : Pure Ki energy

    • Maki@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      29·
      22 days ago

      It doesn’t matter whether someone is trans or nb. Imagine anyone changing their name for any reason. Let’s say through marriage. Hypothetically Jane Doe changes her name to Jane Smith or something. When someone then keeps using their old last name, that’s deadnaming too. Goku doesn’t consider Kakarot to be his name. He mentions that several times and some characters just don’t get it. They’re willfully obtuse. Goku is Goku.

      • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        22 days ago

        Names have power. To deadname someone, regardless of why their name changed, is to strip them of the power to determine how they are referred to. It should be just as offensive to cis people as it is to trans people. I had a professor years ago who said it was akin to using slave names to destroy sense of self, its a power play, and a fucked up one at that.

        • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
          5·
          22 days ago

          I think level of offense taken is up to the individual, but otherwise agree.

          destroy sense of self, its a power play, and a fucked up one at that.

          Which makes one question why woman have their name changed at marriage. I hate the “I now present Mr and Mrs MAN NAME” thing that happens at weddings.

          • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            5·
            22 days ago

            Cw: misogyny by proxy

            My religious education had an answer for that, plain and simple that “women are property”. The Master of the Estate and his Mrs.

            Its super gross, it actually made me feel kinda icky that my ex wife took my name, for that reason, but tradition prevailed over my opinion there.

      • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
        91·
        22 days ago

        I think of furries and other online friends like this, yes. Being trans isn’t the only situation in which one has chosen an identity other than the one they were assigned.

        That said, I wouldn’t characterize Vegeta as deadnaming Goku exactly. I can’t recall that Goku is upset by it, and I think it’s mostly there to indicate Vegeta’s continued connection to his home planet even after many years of being an Earthling.

        Calling Steven his mom’s name is deadnaming.

        • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          I can’t say I am that familiar with the source material, its been a long time since I watched DBZ. You could argue that rather than deadnaming, its closer to a nickname perhaps? Or a pseudonym? We all go by different names in different contexts (IRL/online/work), so maybe its closer to that?