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When somebody pushes back, I know how to push harder.
The ability to persist is often a greater indicator of success in this field than raw talent.
Your voice has meaning. If it didn’t, people wouldn’t work so hard to try to silence you. Remember that.
The utopia of flying cars and space colonies isn’t the future we’ve built. I came of age reading science fiction after 1980. I was promised a cyberpunk dystopia ruled by corporations, complete with violent reality TV and authoritarian governments, and well—here we are.
As, I suspect, is intended by this societal obsession, spending time dedicated to the body meant less time dedicated to being an actual politically powerful member of said society.
Your haters are not here for a conversation. They are here to keep you from doing your work.
Anita Sarkeesian, the creator of the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games YouTube series, analyzed her own rabid trolls and found that many of them played trolling the way they would play a game. Folks got together and played for “points.” Did you get a reply? How many people got angry with you? Did you make them angry enough to block you? Did they run away from their house? Did you get them to cry? These are all points. Trolling is a game.
