I Don't Care

[arewethereyet]

While your compassion might bring a tear to my eyes, I simply do not have the time nor patience for this sort of sensibilities. Had I been so weak to suicide over an internet comment, it might be a recursive effect. I have contemplated suicide before and none for the weak minded foolishness of an internet insult. It usually runs deeper than that.

You're right, of course.  The internet is the wild wild west, and anyone who's going to be pushed over the edge from internet comments was already pretty damned close to that edge.  There's nobody on the internet for more than a day who doesn't understand that that's what the internet is.  And yet. . . I suspect if you look at the computers of almost all modern suicide cases, you'll find that the straw that broke the camel's back came through that medium.

Even in the most hostile exchanges, when a debating opponent really starts raging at me or getting deeply personal, I still try not to.  Hysterical ALL-CAPS, insulting memes, unbridled cursing and insult-- it's not a good look, and there's just no value in doing it.  There is, on the other hand, value in not doing it.

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I have no idea why it would even matter, but he claimed he was born male, transitioned to female, lived as a female and then began living as a male again, still happy with his female parts. Now you know.

I really wish he'd respond-- because it seems to me infinitely likely that in his case, the anti-woman positions he's expressed are almost surely connected to that history.  Maybe if we can have an embargo on insults for a couple days, we could learn what it's like to go through all of that.

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It's the very misogyny and transphobia that Yonadav comes out with that is a significant cause of the high rates of suicide among trans people. I think he's internalised it and is spreading it to gain some form of acceptance rather than fighting back. If so it's tragic.

In my opinion, this is one of the harms caused by the PC movement.  With all due respect to the struggle of trans people, I think that very much of it is psychological dysphoria.  The "I'm okay, you're okay" BS is likely enabling people to embark on a path of self-harm instead of getting help.

Advice on how to interact with people from someone who throws televisions along with his hissy fits.

There are cooler heads around here to take advice from.