6:31pm August 8, 2014

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What I get specifically are comments that have to do with being a woman - grotesque things about my looks, whether good or bad, what people would do with me (and I’m not talking about take me on a date,) saying terrible things about how women aren’t funny and just horrible things.

Usually people will say ‘well, those are just trolls in their mother’s basement’, but if you click on their profile it’s like ‘proud father of 2’,…so it’s just…I don’t belive in trolls as the only people that say terrible things. I think that the internet is real life, and…that’s a terrible person who is awful all day and then they went on the internet at night to continue the terribleosity.

So I will continue to throw down.

Just ignore them is a good philosophy for white men, but for women we still need to be loud, I think.
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@jenkirkman on throwing down against trolls on the internet. (via witsradio)

Wow, this is so important. I used to get horrible graphic rape threats online for my activism and I would check out their facebooks and see they worked at normal stores in my town, had kids, etc. and be scared. I’m reading Kirkman’s book right now. I fell asleep reading it and woke up to this on my dash. I really like this post. (via feministrockstar)

I’ve gotten horrible, horrible graphic rape threats online. And I’ve had people actually – and I mean people, autistic people, people in my fucking community, supposedly – read stuff about me from the same blogs that made the rape threats and the death threats and the disgusting comments about my looks, and the homophobic remarks about me, the transphobic remarks about my friends… and read things from that blog and take it seriously and actually believe that they were getting real information that was worthwhile. I even heard them say things like “This guy is a real asshole but maybe he’s right about her, just for once.” And it was like the ultimate betrayal from my community when I heard things like that. Like I thought this was my community and I’m not sure I will ever see it as my community again, when people could turn on me just because people told a lot of lies and half-truths about me on a blog that also contained rape and death threats towards me among many other horrible things towards other autistic people and some of our parent allies. And that anyone can think that it’s ever justified to send the rape and death threats, that anyone who can do that, anyone who could do that, could possibly have anything valid to say about me, I can’t understand it at all, I can’t understand that mentality.