When Radical Feminists Attack

[rynling]

Because some idiot tagged me on a reblog of a troll post, and because I was stupid enough to try to engage with them like a rational person, yesterday evening I ended up being hit with just shy of three dozen hate messages and death threats on Tumblr. I've been on the receiving end of this sort of thing before, but the people telling me that they want a fictional character to rape my corpse have always been reactionary men, not radical feminists.

I'm sort of at a loss here. On one hand, I don't want the trolls to win. On the other hand, I'm really not doing okay.

Oh man. All I want to do is reblog cute Zelda pictures once or twice a day. What even is this mess?

Comments

[renegadefolkhero]

I'm sorry this shit keeps happening to you. I keep thinking I've finally figured out the level of contention in that fandom, and then someone ups the ante.

There is such a high level of pageantry to these types of "informative" call-out posts people's motives are all over the place. Then some clueless kid pops off about it, and what the hell do you even do with that?

At some point, whether people know what they're talking about or have good intentions doesn't even matter anymore, it's become this elaborate theater to justify treating people like garbage and "shame" people who have the gall to curate their dash in an attempt to avoid being treated like garbage, repeatedly, by the same individuals.

[lassarina]

I'm so sorry. Also, I want to burn those people. That is not how feminism works. that is not how any of this works.

I don't know if you have the spoons for reporting the death threats, but I hope that you find closure and peace in whatever way is meaningful for you.

(Icon is for asshats, not for you, obviously.)

[sarasa_cat]

I am so sorry. I hope you have been finding ways to emotionally de-stress and care for your self because none of this okay.

Not only are their tactics so very not how social justice and intersectional feminism works, that sort of approach ends up souring tired-out onlookers on whatever the issue actually is. And that just makes the problem worse in so many ways.