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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • If this happens please let me know. I’ve never heard of a trans person saying they don’t tell their partners they’re trans.

    Some people may not want to choose to disclose on the first date, depending on the other person’s personality. If there’s nothing there and no second date no harm no foul. If there’s a spark and a wish to take things further I’ve heard (read) many trans people saying they’ll wait until after the date to disclose they’re trans by text to be able to avoid a violent confrontation.

    The climate is extremely hostile for trans people right now and people have to worry about their safety.



  • Personal experience.

    From personal experience about 80% of the harassment I recieve is from straight white american males, not kids either, many times they’re middle aged. There are some females in the mix, rarely people of colour but there have been a few.

    If I were to guess I would imagine it’s because women and people of colour also belong to vulnerable communities and run the risk of attracting the wrong type of attention and becoming targets themselves.

    Not every white american male is a troll or violent obviously but since 2015 the ones who are continue to become active threats.

    Honestly I see them almost as victims themselves. No troll, stalker, mass shooter, etc started out that way. They became radicalized online by getting wrapped up in online activities they were not emotionally nor intellectually equipped to handle.

    An example is the Christchurch massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings

    He didn’t start out as a mass murderer, he was radicalized online in places like 8chan. He even posted on 8chan that they needed to keep an eye on Christchurch because something big was going to happen.

    It’s not just americans and it’s not just white males but so many get caught up in the culture of trolling that there are going to be those who become fundamentally damaged by the continued activity to the point that they take it too far and sometimes that leads to things like mass shootings, or swatting, stalking or other criminal behaviour.




  • I am very grateful that my 76 year old mother is savvy enough to ask me or my brother if something seems off. If she gets a suspicious email or link or pop up and she’s no 100% sure it’s fake she asks one of us and we’ll check it out.

    I’m so glad she’s not an easily manipulated boomer like some of them. Not saying boomer bad, just that because a lot of them were already up there before the internet became a thing it’s easy for them to take something they see at face value because they don’t realize how easy it is to lie on the internet.