I mean, it's very obviously not a death threat, but it's equally obviously not productive. I don't think you can compare it to the theatrical "break a leg," in anything even approaching good faith.
I've been arguing with trans people on Medium pretty regularly for around a year now. I'm sure some of the…
I mean, it's very obviously not a death threat, but it's equally obviously not productive. I don't think you can compare it to the theatrical "break a leg," in anything even approaching good faith.
I've been arguing with trans people on Medium pretty regularly for around a year now. I'm sure some of them would like nothing more than to see me banned. Yet I'm still there. I think you underestimate the importance of the way you phrase things.
Maybe it's my advanced age but I remember "drop dead' as, at worst, an expression of mild derision, and often almost comical. A few years ago I was *banned* from Twitter for it.
If you have been arguing "trans" people on Medium and have not been banned yet it is only because none of them has seen fit to report you for "transphobia." I have solid evidence that only one such report is required and the offending response will not be read before throwing the switch.
I have a bad habit of staying on forums I no longer enjoy out of vain pride and not wanting to be driven away. I was on a WaPo community that existed within one of its blogs; all the people I had enjoyed reading were long gone and those remaining had cliqued around a woman I didn't like* and who despised me enough to invent lies about me. Another time I remained on a board where there were only two people I liked out of ten remaining.
Bad habit. Life is too short.
I like this place but if I started feeling combative I would just vanish. I do learn, though sometimes it takes me a while. Like, most of my life.
* this woman was "patriotic" and when the news came out about Edward Snowden's revelations it was a topic of active discussion. She posted about thirty times "I'm so mad I can't even talk about it!" This made me mad. She can't talk about it but she can talk about it by repeating the same sentence, exclamation point and all, over two dozen times. After that I didn't like her anymore.
"'Oh, drop dead' is a death threat?"
I mean, it's very obviously not a death threat, but it's equally obviously not productive. I don't think you can compare it to the theatrical "break a leg," in anything even approaching good faith.
I've been arguing with trans people on Medium pretty regularly for around a year now. I'm sure some of them would like nothing more than to see me banned. Yet I'm still there. I think you underestimate the importance of the way you phrase things.
Maybe it's my advanced age but I remember "drop dead' as, at worst, an expression of mild derision, and often almost comical. A few years ago I was *banned* from Twitter for it.
If you have been arguing "trans" people on Medium and have not been banned yet it is only because none of them has seen fit to report you for "transphobia." I have solid evidence that only one such report is required and the offending response will not be read before throwing the switch.
I have a bad habit of staying on forums I no longer enjoy out of vain pride and not wanting to be driven away. I was on a WaPo community that existed within one of its blogs; all the people I had enjoyed reading were long gone and those remaining had cliqued around a woman I didn't like* and who despised me enough to invent lies about me. Another time I remained on a board where there were only two people I liked out of ten remaining.
Bad habit. Life is too short.
I like this place but if I started feeling combative I would just vanish. I do learn, though sometimes it takes me a while. Like, most of my life.
* this woman was "patriotic" and when the news came out about Edward Snowden's revelations it was a topic of active discussion. She posted about thirty times "I'm so mad I can't even talk about it!" This made me mad. She can't talk about it but she can talk about it by repeating the same sentence, exclamation point and all, over two dozen times. After that I didn't like her anymore.