Reviews for Shinigami Eyes
Shinigami Eyes by Shinigami Eyes
Review by LookingForLoo
Rated 1 out of 5
by LookingForLoo, 2 years agoWanted to write a longer review but the character limit got me, so my main points are:
- Responding with "examine your behavior" and "intersex people are welcome so long as they don't align themselves with TERFs(which in this context means "correctly use a term intersex people came up with to explain their experiences and identities" and is not, in fact, actually aligning oneself with TERFs)" when people point out that your extension is being used to harm innocent marginalized people is unacceptable. Given how much of our lives are online and how much violence, harassment, and ostracization an anti-trans marking invites you absolutely need to have a real solution to people using SE as a weapon. If you can't come up with a solution then I mean this in all seriousness, you need to take this down until you can. I say this as a trans person, the pros in no way outweigh the cons, and it's WELL past time y'all did something about this.
- While SE is helpful in some cases(flagging celebrities, news sources, and other organizations) it has always been exploitable and thus if you do use it, see it as a suggestion, not as an inherently concrete or factual stamp of dis/approval, especially when it comes to individuals. Being able to think critically and understand ideologies and beliefs *on your own* is a vital skill to have. If you use SE you should investigate any people you see marked either way for yourself to decide if they are actually transphobic or not, because recognizing general transphobia as well as transphobia directed at trans women, trans men, nonbinary people, and how it changes based on race, as well as TERF/radfem rhetoric and dogwhistles and, critically, tell the difference between all that and legitimate language/theory used by trans and intersex people is something you should absolutely be able to do yourself if you want to be a good trans ally and forward the cause of trans liberation.
- It is really fucking weird of y'all to rightfully say that Pepe the Frog emotes/memes are alt-right dogwhistles and thus transphobic while claiming "theyfab" a slur made up by alt-right trolls on 4Chan to harm nonbinary people is "out of scope" like?? Make it make sense. Either all transphobia is bad or you don't think nonbinary people count as trans and so violence against them is fine, which is it.
- My faith in this extension continues to tank for ever person I see who is marked green despite having radfem in their bio and regularly interacting with actual self-identified TERFs. Radical feminism is always, ALWAYS transphobic and absolutely no one who claims to be a radfem should ever be marked as trans-friendly under any circumstances. It seems to a lot of the users of this extension that it's okay if blatant transphobia comes out of the right kind of trans person's mouth phrased the right way. And ofc I know this extension does require constant input to function, so I mark these people as red, but they stay green. The standard of what is considered transphobic by the people who use and maintain this extension is really strange, and I say that as someone who has been fighting radical feminism online for over 15 years. It's okay if someone is an open radfem, who spouts gender essentialist bs about the inherent evils of men and virtues of women so long as they include trans people in their nonsense, but intersex trans people trying to use a label they coined and nonbinary folks who would like to not be called slurs are treated like the problem?
This extension isn’t trustworthy atm and honestly even if it was working properly I would still say you should only use it if you're willing and able to vet people yourself. The path of queer and trans liberation is one you must be proactive in pursuing, blind trust, on the other hand, is oppression's favorite tool and it will get you absolutely nowhere.
- Responding with "examine your behavior" and "intersex people are welcome so long as they don't align themselves with TERFs(which in this context means "correctly use a term intersex people came up with to explain their experiences and identities" and is not, in fact, actually aligning oneself with TERFs)" when people point out that your extension is being used to harm innocent marginalized people is unacceptable. Given how much of our lives are online and how much violence, harassment, and ostracization an anti-trans marking invites you absolutely need to have a real solution to people using SE as a weapon. If you can't come up with a solution then I mean this in all seriousness, you need to take this down until you can. I say this as a trans person, the pros in no way outweigh the cons, and it's WELL past time y'all did something about this.
- While SE is helpful in some cases(flagging celebrities, news sources, and other organizations) it has always been exploitable and thus if you do use it, see it as a suggestion, not as an inherently concrete or factual stamp of dis/approval, especially when it comes to individuals. Being able to think critically and understand ideologies and beliefs *on your own* is a vital skill to have. If you use SE you should investigate any people you see marked either way for yourself to decide if they are actually transphobic or not, because recognizing general transphobia as well as transphobia directed at trans women, trans men, nonbinary people, and how it changes based on race, as well as TERF/radfem rhetoric and dogwhistles and, critically, tell the difference between all that and legitimate language/theory used by trans and intersex people is something you should absolutely be able to do yourself if you want to be a good trans ally and forward the cause of trans liberation.
- It is really fucking weird of y'all to rightfully say that Pepe the Frog emotes/memes are alt-right dogwhistles and thus transphobic while claiming "theyfab" a slur made up by alt-right trolls on 4Chan to harm nonbinary people is "out of scope" like?? Make it make sense. Either all transphobia is bad or you don't think nonbinary people count as trans and so violence against them is fine, which is it.
- My faith in this extension continues to tank for ever person I see who is marked green despite having radfem in their bio and regularly interacting with actual self-identified TERFs. Radical feminism is always, ALWAYS transphobic and absolutely no one who claims to be a radfem should ever be marked as trans-friendly under any circumstances. It seems to a lot of the users of this extension that it's okay if blatant transphobia comes out of the right kind of trans person's mouth phrased the right way. And ofc I know this extension does require constant input to function, so I mark these people as red, but they stay green. The standard of what is considered transphobic by the people who use and maintain this extension is really strange, and I say that as someone who has been fighting radical feminism online for over 15 years. It's okay if someone is an open radfem, who spouts gender essentialist bs about the inherent evils of men and virtues of women so long as they include trans people in their nonsense, but intersex trans people trying to use a label they coined and nonbinary folks who would like to not be called slurs are treated like the problem?
This extension isn’t trustworthy atm and honestly even if it was working properly I would still say you should only use it if you're willing and able to vet people yourself. The path of queer and trans liberation is one you must be proactive in pursuing, blind trust, on the other hand, is oppression's favorite tool and it will get you absolutely nowhere.
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- Rated 1 out of 5by explodingcows54, a day agovery commonly see transmeds (people who police transness) marked as green and trans men marked as red, with no evidence theyre anti trans or trans friendly. lacks unbiased review.
- Rated 1 out of 5by hi, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EmpurressNepetaIII, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by betseg, 4 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by tsintzask, 5 days agoIt works fine. Of course anything with a community-sourced database is gonna have its misfires, but overall it serves its purpose well enough.
I'd like the ability to mark stuff on mobile firefox too, though. Or at least to be able to manually import an override list, or something along those lines. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16876736, 7 days agoif you are a trans woman you NEED this extention. if you are a trans man who knows transandrophobia is not an actual axis of oppression and wants to be more of a transfeminist you NEED this extention.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19938679, 7 days agoHorribly transphobic extension! It marks trans men/mascs, nonbinary people, and intersex people as "transphobic" for simply talking about the oppression they face, meanwhile trans women/fems are allowed to be as racist, ableist, and laterally queerphobic as they want, and they're somehow fine. The creators of this extension should be ashamed of themselves. At best, there's no oversight or verification of any kind to prevent this, and at worst, this is something they actively encourage. Absolutely disgusting.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20016844, 7 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by mina, 8 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by BB, 12 days agoRather than correctly marking people as trans friendly/anti-trans it's being weaponized to pit Trans siblings against each other. Unless you're purposely trying to fracture the trans community, DO NOT INSTALL. Shinigami eyes cannot be trusted.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Winter, 14 days agoall the people review bombing this addon are just crying about being called out on their discrimination and microaggressions towards transfems
- Rated 1 out of 5by calicoCatkind, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NixDrgnslyr, 16 days agoIf you have basic information parsing skills you'll be fine using this extension. False positives are real but they can be fixed if more people use the extension lol
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17829284, 17 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19975913, 18 days agothis is not useful, easy for misinformation to spread via mass flagging campaigns. it is better to make your own opinions of someone. similar to AI it is not good to outsource your thinking ability.
- Rated 5 out of 5by lurby, 24 days agofantastic extension. It's very nice if you do a lot of research or news reading. I only wish that someone being colored by it included a little blurb on hover that quickly summarized why they got colored.
Don't be scared by the ratings. From what I can tell, the review bombing seems to be transmisogynists doing the DARVO thing, similar to when white people say "you know, calling people racist is the REAL racism". - Rated 5 out of 5by suiqune, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by matrix900, a month agothis might actually be THE most transphobic extension ever created. like genuinely this thing hates trans people so much its unreal
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19976373, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 19975055, a month agoLook, regardless of your opinion on whether "transandrophobia" is real or not, being transphobic towards trans men is still transphobia and is still bad. There should never be a kind of trans person that it is acceptable to be transphobic towards, and just because you are trans yourself doesn't make what you're saying any less transphobic. A gay person can still be homophobic, a trans person can still be transphobic, and I have seen far too many transphobic trans people marked in green because they support trans women while oftentimes putting down or even parroting TERF rhetoric in regards to trans men or nonbinary people.
Giving it two stars because it served its purpose for a good while and I think it would be disingenuous to pretend it never worked; I have had it installed for years at this point and used to regularly contribute by going into transphobic threads and marking every transphobe in red so others knew and could block them, but I've seen too many false greens by this point, along with people marked red that have never said anything about trans people at all let alone say something transmisogynistic. And I don't want to hear the "multiple reports have to be made to get a red mark" argument, it's known there's groups that target people en masse to get a false flag in amidst the genuine flags. And if you are one of the people saying that all the people marked green are trans friendly, you've either successfully blocked and avoided all the transphobes or you're blind to transphobia directed at anyone that isn't transfem.
Finishing up by saying this tool no longer follows its own rules. It has never been exclusively a transmisogyny detector - it is even supposed to encompass exorsexism (listed as "enby-phobia"). Read the extensions own guidelines (shinigami-eyes dot github dot io) before claiming otherwise. - Rated 1 out of 5by marie, a month agounfortunately it's useless when you can't see why someone was flagged. a lot of people criticizing anti transmasculinity get flagged as red and a lot of straight up bigoted, enbyphobic, people who hate trans men get flagged green with no way to correct that. I'm very disappointed
- Rated 1 out of 5by hatsune piku, a month agoHaven't had this extension installed for years. Went to see just how bad it's supposedly gotten and. Yeah they weren't kidding. Tons of trans-friendly blogs marked red, and people who will say the most hateful things you've ever read about a group of trans people will be marked green. It has been taken over by those pushing the new wave of radical feminism with a "trans-friendly" coat of paint. And make no mistake: it is absolutely repackaged radfem rhetoric. It serves only to divide the community and isolate vulnerable transfeminine people.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lvnya Rose, a month agoWorks exactly how one would expect it to. If you can understand the tenants of transmisogyny, you should be able to find people who also do on your dash. I haven't seen an unjustified green or red mark since using it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by EvilEye, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18765486, a month ago