Came up with the question after an interaction that happened a few weeks ago. Long story short I said circumcision is bad but female genital mutilation is traditionally much worse. A user went through my comment history. They replied to one stating that I was as evil as the BTK killer and champion child abuse.
For saying that my governor (Michigan, USA) has done a decent job they said that she was a demon and that my dog deserved to die in the house fire that claimed her life a few years ago.
Yikes, thats pretty extreme
I’ve also gotten death threats, but that one was the most uncalled for.
Someone called me a deadbeat father because I stopped paying child support… On my now-adult child.
That’s actually hilarious
The whole situation is hilarious, now. The issue was, his mother also has four other children, younger than my son. None of these children are mine, I’ve never even met them. So of course the first month of No More Support, and she’s blowing my phone up demanding I keep paying because of the other children. Where are their father(s)?
racist, misogynist, pedophile.
I’m about as far from those as you can get.
I treat everyone like the equal piece of shit they are.
words don’t bother me like it does other people though.
I know what I’m about and nobody can stick a label on me long enough for me to care. 🤷
words are words, and I am me.
When I said I was a single mum I was told “Shoulda kept your legs shut, love.”
I’m a widow.
I think it’s fair to say that men who say “Shoulda kept your legs shut,” are the kind of men for whom no one is opening their legs.
I sincerely hope you traumatized them back.
GOD DAYUM thats brutal, sorry to here that!
Two in the same vein:
- Someone once assumed that I used a code prettier by asking for my
.prettierrc. Nope. I just write pretty code and was legit offended at that. - Multiple times I’ve been called an AI because I (checks notes) write out my thoughts in full sentences.
There’s been worse, but I’m quick to block, and I don’t dwell on things. It’s actually pretty easy when you step back and think about the kind of person who would go online make personal attacks like that. Once you have that mental image, you quickly realize you don’t give a flying fuck what that person has to say about anything.
What is a code prettier?
I should probably block but I never do. I kinda like seeing the crazy behavior.
If youre on voyager (or maybe some others idk) you can tag other users. You can still see the crazy but you already have them marked.
Helps to understand whether you’ve maybe crossed a line, or have got something wrong, or if its just that guy again.
- Someone once assumed that I used a code prettier by asking for my
Years ago when I was a music grad student I used to participate in several forums for sharing and discussing music. I regularly posted recordings of my work.
One morning I woke up to discover that some gentleman thought enough of me to invest what must have been considerable time and energy composing a several pages-long dissertation on how much he hated my music. I don’t remember the exact language, but I remember that it wasn’t particularly imaginative. Lots of references to garbage and shit I guess. I mean, if you’re going to put that much effort into lambasting someone, at least come up with a couple original metaphors. But apparently my music filled him with so much rage he couldn’t bring himself to do so.
In retrospect though, that music was, objectively, pretty bad. But I haven’t give up. I’m still out there making shitty music.
I would say your music was a true success then, it made them feel intense emotion. That emotion was pure rage but still, it was emotion.
Jeez what a hateful dickhead.
I learned very quickly that there are people in music academia who will very loudly and obnoxiously state their very sound reasons why Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is a pile of hot garbage. And from that I learned to just make whatever’s in me to make, and the best possible outcome is that it gets attention.
