I can’t even imagine. I see so much misogyny on some lemmy comms.
Honestly, you sadly get used to it - along with, uh, degeneracy directed at you.
Yep I get u. As a disabled person I eventually got used to the inevitable ableism on social media, lemmy is “better” than reddit or X, but it’s still shit.
I’m certain you didn’t mean that they are, but the meme format kinda implies it, so I just thought I’d point out from here on that intersection that the two groups aren’t mutually exclusive😊
(also shout out to fellow enby and or agender afabs lol)
Otherwise both this and op are sadly spot on.
Horrible, but still not as bad as exploring it as a girl 🤢 I don’t miss being a kid
Yeah. I look back on all the grooming or inappropriate shit people said to me. I definitely didn’t understand at the time but that shit makes me so angry now. Wtf is wrong with people.
Wait, there’s women on the internet?!
I opened this post knowing 100% that I’d find this comment.
The internet
Where men are men
Where women are men
Where kids are FBI
—1990s USEnet era adage
Yes, but weirdly, none of us play MMOs.
You’re not missing much
I know a few who play as male characters to avoid attention.
Oh, I know. I’ve met a lot of women who do, it was more tongue-in-cheek at the old “Many Men Online Roleplaying Girls”.
I know at least two who are in my coven / crew who play MMOs.
I don’t like MMOs myself, but I’m way neurodivergent and do a lot of single-player and small-group co-op.
I think I steered away from pub games around the rise of gamergate and the alt-right. Folks got scary.
Can confirm. Went as Final Girl on Among Us and wow. Dudes got
viscousvicious inside minutes.I think you mean vicious?
Yes, and corrected.
Though viscous seems applicable as well.
i read this as saying that asholes with keyboards go explore the internet as women and that just sounds like the beginning of a trans comic/webtoon
Yeah… I often received messages of men who wanted to rape me or who harassed me on public Discord servers & (mostly) DMs (Discord Townhall, etc, ). This is why I don’t use the shorten version of my pseudonym anymore anywhere in public (Lluwu) and deleted my Discord account.
::: Discord screenshot
:::I can’t see the screenshot, both from Voyager and the web UI
