I'm not even intimidated per se, it's just that most of the people who supposedly agreed with me on things have either moved on or just stopped engaging in any kind of activism there, and meanwhile I'm STILL just being targeted by reactionaries. They have no argument, no clue about any context whatsoever, no policies aside from "people who are different from me are wrong", and yet they have to poke their heads into every conversation about oppression there is. For instance, the moment I say anything about positive trans representation, truscum are all over my blog. I didn't sign up for this and just reading their gibberish about how ALLLLL trans people must be dysphoric and how I don't "count" is killing my brain cells, let alone responding to it. And then just posting on tumblr becomes a reason to have anxiety, because even if most people know these bigots are objectively wrong, that doesn't make it any nicer to be harassed by them.
Which is a terrible use of my time. I'm literally too old to waste my energy on someone's lack of information, especially when they don't even respond to sources that were good enough to get a Master's with.
THIS WAS A BIG RANT SORRY BUT IT'S BEEN BUGGING ME FOR AGES NOW
UGH YEAH THIS. if I'm feeling bored I'll just read through all those dumb """arguments""" they leave on ur posts. i imagine replying to all that shit gets real tiring real fast :/
twitter is a pretty decent outlet for personal stuff and fandom talk usually but sometimes u need something more long form haha. i might start posting on lj again if i can make the time for it. and ofc I'll be keeping up with u and che!
This isn't targeted at you or anyone specifically, but it would help a TON if people ever at least reacted to me arguing with them. But then the main result is that they start harassing the next person too so it's understandable most just stay away. Still, when you feel like it makes no difference how much time you spend debunking this crap and the only outcome is that you've been harassed for hours on end, that's just. Not worth it.
I don't like how short-form twitter is, lol, and it also feels like such a hard-to-follow medium where in a minute you have 50 new posts. Maybe eventually I'll get one for "work reasons" if I can be bothered, but right now my attention span's been messed up enough by tumblr as it is. Anyway, thanks for keeping in touch! And I'm sure no post topic is too small to make. :D
I'm not even intimidated per se, it's just that most of the people who supposedly agreed with me on things have either moved on or just stopped engaging in any kind of activism there, and meanwhile I'm STILL just being targeted by reactionaries. They have no argument, no clue about any context whatsoever, no policies aside from "people who are different from me are wrong", and yet they have to poke their heads into every conversation about oppression there is. For instance, the moment I say anything about positive trans representation, truscum are all over my blog. I didn't sign up for this and just reading their gibberish about how ALLLLL trans people must be dysphoric and how I don't "count" is killing my brain cells, let alone responding to it. And then just posting on tumblr becomes a reason to have anxiety, because even if most people know these bigots are objectively wrong, that doesn't make it any nicer to be harassed by them.
Which is a terrible use of my time. I'm literally too old to waste my energy on someone's lack of information, especially when they don't even respond to sources that were good enough to get a Master's with.
THIS WAS A BIG RANT SORRY BUT IT'S BEEN BUGGING ME FOR AGES NOW
Reply
twitter is a pretty decent outlet for personal stuff and fandom talk usually but sometimes u need something more long form haha. i might start posting on lj again if i can make the time for it. and ofc I'll be keeping up with u and che!
Reply
I don't like how short-form twitter is, lol, and it also feels like such a hard-to-follow medium where in a minute you have 50 new posts. Maybe eventually I'll get one for "work reasons" if I can be bothered, but right now my attention span's been messed up enough by tumblr as it is. Anyway, thanks for keeping in touch! And I'm sure no post topic is too small to make. :D
Reply
Leave a comment