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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
2/this is a bit scary, cause the thing I have to be afraid of isn't truth, it's weaponized narratives carried by people who don't like me and don't care about my actual opinions. The question then becomes, how much should I filter my speech to avoid handing weapons to the enemy?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Floidberg
@floidberg
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@Aella_Girl
Remember, the negative reaction is a function of how Twitter is constructed, not thousands of people's genuine evaluation of you as a person. They might feel like weapons, but ultimately these were people's opinions about something you didn't say.
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Floidberg
@floidberg
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@Aella_Girl
That is true and a valid, practical concern. I was thinking about your state of mind! I have noticed that many people who stick to their guns don't regret it.
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