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As the author, I wonder how much me being not quiet but not an asshole about being nonbinary and having furry stickers in the article makes people start hitting

• eropple 5y ago
  You obviously don't need anyone to tell you this, but for passersby for whom this has not been on their radar before: this is almost certainly true. HN commenters will on occasion be superior jerks towards anybody, but this is some loud posters' instantaneously adopted position when they see a name that doesn't code as male--for another example, see many `rachelbythebay.com` posts, where you have randos getting sniffy and assuming she's incompetent or junior for some Real Interesting Reasons. By my estimation it is real, the proprietorship (who I like and appreciate personally, and I think are operating on good faith) of this community has often made noises about how it should be better. It's not, and it should be.
• seebs 5y ago
  As a person who has watched this kind of thing happen a lot: I think a lot. I had a bunch of friends on tumblr who wrote and exchanged very similar fiction and art. The ones who were known to be trans, female, enbies, or non-white got harassed a lot. The one who was understood to be a white cis male got left alone. And this is on tumblr, where the ostensible position of a large part of the user base is that white cis males are Bad People by default... So yeah, pretty sure it's that. I almost never get harassed by people who think I'm cis male, the bulk of the harassment came from people who thought I was transmasc. Probably the furry stuff too, which is honestly sort of terrifying, do these people not know how much infrastructure relies on stressed and overworked furries?