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I hope this guy goes away now
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I hope so
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It seems pretty clear that he is not willing to read anything in a way that doesn't confirm his own bias so there's nothing I can really do
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He hasn't messaged me back or reblogged me yet so
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And last time he was so quick to tell me off
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For those of you who don't follow me on tumblr I made a post about the BW movie that was cancelled due to a reticence re: female superheroes
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This is a factual thing that actually happened but some dudes really want to argue about it and one was just like nah nah provide a source
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So I said look on Wikipedia it is there and he came back all triumphant with a quote and the idea that I'm reading sexism into everything
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this is why I like the fact that I have, like, no followers on tumblr. I don't have to deal with crap like that.
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I could legit start posting about murdering the world and nobody would notice.
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So I was forced to quote the preceding few sentences which basically summed up what I'd been saying and I have not heard from him since
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It is really hard to quote from an iPad guys, I am ticked
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aw hun <3
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& I was trying to be nice and not reblog to my account where I have thousands of followers
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Having a lot of followers can be an intoxicating power but I usually don't get many of these dudes trying to be contrary
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what a bunch of assclowns
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i like the AREN'T YOU HAPPY THIS THING HAPPENED THOUGH??
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AS A WOMAN AREN'T YOU PLEASED ABOUT THE THING WHY ISN'T THIS ENOUGH FOR YOU
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Now I should either do homework or pretend to be a fictional character on the internet
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Probably with a potato I'm gonna bake a potato
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Women should just be a happy their life isn't the Catwoman movie, asking anything more is just being greedy
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SNARLSSS
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I GOT SO MAD WHEN HE DEMANDED THAT YOU PROVE IT WAS SEXISM I JUST
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furiously points at the fucking Ant-Man movie
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pretend you are a cat
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a n t m a n
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It's really charming how he made me cite sources and then didn't read them
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but anyway I think he's gone!!
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I really wonder what inspires these guys to pick fights with me, like
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do they think they will make me change my mind
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do they think the will win the argument?
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because that's silly
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you know why
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no I honestly don't
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do they just have "someone is wrong on the internet" syndrome?
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SORRY I'M STILL A LITTLE RILED ABOUT THIS, but yeah no it's sexism
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what a perfect emote for this
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i mean it's probably also someone is wrong on the internet, like if they didn't continue to engage you, that's a pretty good indicator that they're like
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but yeah it's just... stupid
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LOL FOLLOWERS LOOK AT HOW I ROASTED THIS PERSON
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hahah I mean there's a definite mansplaining aura that they have but I mean
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do they realize they're on tumblr
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well that's the thing, i don't think they do
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like they probably don't have an anti-sjw sideblog, but they also probably follow a few
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Yeah he's probably in a veeeery different corner of tumblr (and I have no idea how to find that corner but I know it exists)
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this ain't reddit, motherfuckers
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they like to pretend it is
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i follow a girl who sometimes treads into that corner of tumblr where it's like "CHRIST EVERYONE STOP BEING OFFENDED BY EVERYTHING" mocking triggers ect.
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maybe it's just arrogant of me to like think "do you really think you are going to win this internet fight"
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i like to assume most of these people will eventually have a come to jesus moment like i did and realize they're being assholes
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maybe they do… it just seems really stupid of them
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yeah a lot of them seem very freshman year of college to me
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yeaaaaaah
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not like, as an insult, but there's a certain period of your life when you are basically trying on philosophies
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and some people try on the philosophy "asshole"
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you see this on like the extreme sjw side of tumblr too not just the anti sjw side
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and like even if you aren't meaning to try on that philosophy, it's a real easy one to slip into when you've got privileged
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oh no yeah, i agree there like
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i think part of it is the two extreme ends keep running up against each other and everyone else getting caught in the crossfire
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but yeah I just... like, is their goal getting me more notes?
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and if you're not already aware or have a solid idea of what social justice is, it's really easy to get shunted to one side or another
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I think everyone could probably benefit from the liberal use of the unfollow button
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this is the internet
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if you see someone on tumblr that really annoys you, you can just... not follow them anymore 
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well that's the policy I use with tracked tags
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that's silly though, because it won't work
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but yeah I wonder if people are like "oh well this is a popular post I bet if i disagree I will be a champion"
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there's always going to be one of their followers who likes the post based on what they said, it makes them feel justified
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that's why i wish tumblr tracked what specific posts people liked, as someone who occasionally gets into pointless internet fights, this is basically how you keep score
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hahah one time someone was like "I have a hundred followers so I am right"
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yeaaaah, that's a mindset that's easy to fall into, but like... okay
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when i get in an internet fight with someone or i post a really noisy opinion, i kind of keep track of who's liking what and who's reblogging what from where
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which is silly, because having a bunch of followers doesn't make you right, it just means yeah
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people are more likely to "like" or "reblog" you
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it's primarily about being seen and seeing who agrees with your opinion
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the more people who agree with your opinion the more justified and secure you feel in it
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right
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like I happen to agree with almost everything I say
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natch
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but if I didn't I still wouldn't try getting into a dumb internet fight with me because
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it's not gonna be a conversation it's just gonna be a reblog war
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as opposed to getting into an efight with me on a message board, or in the comments section where you don't have these extensive social networks behind you
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oh and
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I credit my ability to not just lose control and curse w/the overzealous moderating at CBR
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tumblr fights have this weird kind of... culture i guess is the word for it and i think to some people having that social network to back them up gives them a heady sense of power
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okay yeah that's fair
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you aren't allowed any form of "personal attacks" and outright calling people sexist is like a personal attack
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I have never been banned or warned and I have 4000 posts :')
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sometimes I have needed to like leave the room and shut off the computer though
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so you basically have to perfect the form of calling someone an arrogant sexist shitbag without actually doing that
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I definitely agree that having followers can result in a feeling of invincibility
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but yeah, I have a lot of practice at using very calm language in the face of sexist neckbeardery
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that is actually a really good skill to have, since it's really easy for people to dismiss you when you're like me and start dropping fbombs and rageful capslock
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like i'll switch to proper punctuation and start dragging out the big words when i'm in a fight i have a personal stake in
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it is, though I hate the idea that distance is the best barometer of truth
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it's easy to dismiss profanity laced rage, it's a whole lot harder to dismiss cool calculation
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i do too honestly
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Really the opposite in many cases!
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I mean I'd probably be more honest if I just told people to fuck themselves
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but I know it's yeah much harder for people to dismiss calm wordings and I know also that dudes who want to dismiss me would prefer it if I went into a bunch of ad hominems
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for that reason
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exactly
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while there is a weird sort of... i guess brutal satisfaction in telling someone to fuck off, it lacks precision and it's easy to have that turned against you
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maybe that's what they want, for me to respond with gibbering rage
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that's exactly what they want
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not to change my mind but to "reduce" it
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yeah that is probably what cite your sources guy wanted
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"cite your sources" guys are literally the worst and those are usually the sorts of fights where i desperately wish i could have them in person because words just aren't enough sometimes
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"cite your sources" guys will never read your sources, they're baiting you because they believe that A) you don't have sources and B. you don't have legitimate sources
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and well he fell into the trap of not reading the source
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exaclty
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it's the weakest attack, but they're still banking on the idea that you, as a passionate female fan, will react with passion and capslock and that in and of itself will discredit you
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yeah thinking about this that does sum up most encounters I've had with "cite your sources" guys
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it's like continuity nitpicking in a way
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yeaaaah
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the trick is to get me around a cat
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then I will be very stupid and incoherent
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oh god, never let them know, alex, they'll try to revolt against you
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but
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they will bring me lots of cats
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STAY STRONG
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now I'm tempted to post a cat picture