1/ Over the past few weeks I've been thinking more about "public persona" - how careful should I be with it? How filtered? When the bestiality tweet went viral, literally thousands of people assumed I'm a dog fucker instead of realizing I'm a researcher who asks weird questions.
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3/And of course I'm not discounting the practical use of self censorship to avoid stuff like having five thousand people call you a dog fucker, but it does go against a lot of what I value. I want to be uncensored, I want to be as vulnerable as possible as publicly as possible.
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4/I want to be a shameless human who freely offers up the weapons other people can use to throw at me, because that's their choice and not mine. My choice is just to demonstrate the lack of self judgement that I generally feel, and by implication lack of judgement for all
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5/those people and beliefs around me too (I'm still working on astrology pls give that one time). I feel generally capable of being eviscerated, so I want to allow myself to be eviscerated. It's just the internet doing what the internet does.
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6/so while I can't promise i won't self censor a little, I'm always pushing towards less self censorship.
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no one cared who I was until I put on the peel
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There was a fanastic slatestar post about exactly this. I’d dig up the link, but I’m betting you’ve read it.
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link for the class? :D off the top of my head idk which one this is
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You have roughly three options: ignore the enemy, self-censor, or discourage attacks by occasionally retaliating as hard as you can.
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ignoring is a really good tactic for dealing with bullies they don't get the satisfaction they're looking for and move on to weaker targets :/
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