What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

vassraptor asked: Hey, asking this as someone who respects you and agrees with you on AO3 and censorship: do you think you've dragged that anti enough? She's a 20yo black probable abuse survivor, you're a Hugo nominee twice her age, and with way more followers, and you haven't explicitly told your followers not to go after her. In fact, you're publishing asks dissing her, which seems like tacit encouragement to harass her. She's behaving horribly, I know, but you have most of the power in this interaction.

I take your point that I’ve got the social power in this interaction, so in case it needs clarifying - and I assumed it didn’t, but that’s on me - nobody should be harassing her. Don’t do that. Stay out of her inbox, keep the discussion to the posts, and don’t be a jerk.

I’ve tried to be very clear that I’m not dragging her as a person; I’m dragging her argument, while also agreeing that telling people to kill themselves is an awful thing to do in any context. I say that as someone whose mental health issues include suicidal ideation: as calm as I’ve tried to be in responding to these arguments, I’d be lying if I said that aspect of things hadn’t had an impact on me. My being Hugo nominated is very nice, but it doesn’t magically fix my brain, either.  

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    Yes; I think that is incidental, not the point; it is certainly a good opportunity to do so.Even though a single user...
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    That’s not what I said, though.The point of “dragging the argument and countering it” is to convince your opponent and...
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