2/ another form of damage it does, which is that when you're the one at the center of this bullshit it also robs you of your own empathic
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3/ faculties. So you start lashing out, and you don't do it in a measured or intelligent way, and you don't focus your attention on the
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4/ people who 1) deserve your ire; and 2) can handle you criticizing them. There have been some ostensibly "anti-harassment" activists
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5/ who have acted so, so disgustingly abysmally during this. People I considered at least twitter-buddies, for what it's worth. I need to
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6/ permanently bar these people from my twitter life, and I've started doing so. But in the meantime I ended up reacting in a mean/snarky
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7/ dickish way toward much "smaller fish" (not meaning they're less important as people, but smaller twitter followings). I was punching
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8/ down, in some cases at people who, yes, in my view misinterpreted what I wrote, but who were approaching me from a place of real and
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9/ legitimate trauma and anger. They aren't the problem here, and I mistook them for the problem. It just *feels* like they are the
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10/ problem when so many of them are coming at you at once. Anyway. I'm furious how some people have acted, and I think I have a right to
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11/ that, but I unreservedly apologize for those punching-down instances, which came during my first bona fide instance of twitter
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shaming at the hands of people who are on paper my "allies." That wasn't the right approach at all. 12/12
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