Major CW for some truly vile shit including sexual assault threats, enbyphobia, and other generally horrific reactionary seething from a supposed socialist.
I dared to mildly criticize Chapo in the most recent /r/bwf comments for purposefully misgendering Ezra Miller and my notifs have been filled with some pretty remarkable stuff for the past 2 days. The worst of it came from this supposed trans sex worker. I’ve blocked my own username for privacy. For context, I am also trans and mentioned that I have done fs sex work.
It feels like the same mechanism that older people used to have 20 years ago when asked to learn how to use a word processor or internet browser works. Just a visceral negative reaction to being expected to learn literally anything new. Not being able to use the VCR remote was a common meme about tech-phobes and it was never inability that was the problem but just plain blunt refusal to learn because it causes an aggressively negative reaction in them.
Maybe what we need is a drive to make learning new things a cool and positive thing to counteract it? I don't know. Something must be able to get around it.
When people are open to new things they become communists.