Came up with the question after an interaction that happened a few weeks ago. Long story short I said circumcision is bad but female genital mutilation is traditionally much worse. A user went through my comment history. They replied to one stating that I was as evil as the BTK killer and champion child abuse.

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    When I said I was a single mum I was told “Shoulda kept your legs shut, love.”

    I’m a widow.

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    Two in the same vein:

    1. Someone once assumed that I used a code prettier by asking for my .prettierrc. Nope. I just write pretty code and was legit offended at that.
    2. Multiple times I’ve been called an AI because I (checks notes) write out my thoughts in full sentences.

    There’s been worse, but I’m quick to block, and I don’t dwell on things. It’s actually pretty easy when you step back and think about the kind of person who would go online make personal attacks like that. Once you have that mental image, you quickly realize you don’t give a flying fuck what that person has to say about anything.

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        If youre on voyager (or maybe some others idk) you can tag other users. You can still see the crazy but you already have them marked.

        Helps to understand whether you’ve maybe crossed a line, or have got something wrong, or if its just that guy again.

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    For saying that my governor (Michigan, USA) has done a decent job they said that she was a demon and that my dog deserved to die in the house fire that claimed her life a few years ago.

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    Someone called me a deadbeat father because I stopped paying child support… On my now-adult child.

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        The whole situation is hilarious, now. The issue was, his mother also has four other children, younger than my son. None of these children are mine, I’ve never even met them. So of course the first month of No More Support, and she’s blowing my phone up demanding I keep paying because of the other children. Where are their father(s)?

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    Crazy: Years ago I sent a girl from one of those “meet people here” subreddits like 10 photos of myself because she seemed interesting from her bio and promised me photos in return. In the photos I was doing stuff like hiking and exploring abandoned buildings, and there was a badass one of me posing triumphantly on a massive rock in front of a glacier lake. What did she do? Wrote me back a nasty message accusing me of being hideous or having a horrible disfigurement because none of the photos were close-up clear shots of my face and she couldn’t figure out how to zoom in on my face with her phone. I guess my hobbies and interests weren’t relevant, not to mention my face was totally visible if she’d zoomed in.

    I sent those same pics to another girl a few months later and six years later we’re still together.

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    racist, misogynist, pedophile.

    I’m about as far from those as you can get.

    I treat everyone like the equal piece of shit they are.

    words don’t bother me like it does other people though.

    I know what I’m about and nobody can stick a label on me long enough for me to care. 🤷

    words are words, and I am me.