Some people fail to understand the longevity of targeted abuse of women of color on Twitter. One single attack can last for years.
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For example, just yesterday, a kid named John Walker from Vancouver who uses the handle
@drdressup tweeted me this:pic.twitter.com/Hn361lZWVJ
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I was wondering why John/
@drdressup decided to call me a cunt out of nowhere; went to his account, noticed he'd RTd@ErnoldJohnson's tweet. -
It gets tiring and wears me down. I can't have a feminist analysis about a movie without being made to feel like shit for an entire year.
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It's pretty much always men. They're pretty much always white. Travis DuCote is a brocialist; his meme inspires right-wingers to attack me.
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And even as I tweet how worn down and shitty this makes me feel, people like
@Brockaganda are attacking me. Can't you get a life, dude? -
Mute and Block his ass. That's what they're there for.
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See, your response is probably well-intentioned, but pretty troubling for me....
@TallGrrl -
The original person that started all of this? He was already blocked. Yet here I am, a year later, still dealing with it.
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