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Holly MathNerd's avatar

FYI on comment threads: I banned someone from commenting here, and refunded her, because she pretended to be offended because I sometimes swear (as if anyone who followed me on Twitter or has read my Substack could have failed to notice this) and then pulled a stunt my parents pulled, diagnosing me with a disorder that they themselves actually had. I have made absolutely no secret of my psychiatric diagnoses. Indeed, I comment on them with great regularity. The idea that whipping out an amateur diagnosis that's inaccurate will work to make me pretend that a stupid argument is anything but stupid is silly, but then again, this is the internet.

I likewise refunded someone a couple of days ago, a smarmy asshole who pretends to believe that children don't have a biological sex. That anyone could imagine arguing to *me* that children aren't fully human would go over well is farcical. After he started that crap here I was notified by more than one person that going from female writer to female writer engaging in sophistry to gain the fuel of replies is one of his years-long habits. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Both of their emails now go straight to trash without being seen by me, but narcissists gonna narcissist, so it's likely that one or both of them will turn up here again. I'll keep an eye on it and keep refunding and banning until they get the point.

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Erin E.'s avatar

This is beautifully logical and clear. In several non-American cultures, it’s common for male friends to hold hands, as just one example. In Israel, everyone serves in the military regardless of gender. I love baking and sewing but I’ve also built a deck. My husband was in the police and the military but he also knows how to knit. There’s an awesome male YouTuber I follow called The Quilting Marine: he quilts as a therapeutic art to deal with his PTSD.

When supposedly progressive people insult “normies” with this kind of language manipulation, I instinctively feel like, fuck off.

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