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Maybe it’s just a natural consequence of getting older, but if you’ve been around the block enough times, you tend to suffer fools a lot less and tend to take “drama” a lot less seriously.

Now, a consistent thing that puts me at odds with certain folks is that 1) I don’t treat the idea of “being told what to do” as if it’s actually oppressive and 2) I don’t pretend as if simply being snapped at once or twice on the internet is a real form of abuse.

This puts me in a position where I tend to be dismissive of the alleged ideas of destructive feminists, sjws, wokescolds, tumblrinas, tenderqueers, hoa/dei beraters, etc., these are all just paranoid, irrational obsessions at the end of the day and ways to be unrelentingly vindictive towards anyone who slights you.

Let’s talk about Chanty Binx. She was the thumbnail of every “feminist destroyed” video from YouTube in the 2010s. But what was framed as a “destructive feminist”, was actually just someone being followed around for an hour until she finally blew up.

This is all a "social justice warrior" really is most of the time, people who have faced fierce opposition for most of their life until they finally grew a backbone, blew up, and stopped asking politely.

I’m always stunned whenever people believe this bullshit, like, whenever someone is like "marginalized folks need to be kind and patient when advocating for themselves or else the people won't listen" and I'm just like, wow, so what's it like being born yesterday?

I'm sorry, no, but you don't get to feel hurt by that.

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And if someone jovially ever finds a new "Chanty Binx" to make an example out of, chances are they were the ones to help engineer that situation to begin with, they've been acting melodramatic, sneering, and antagonistic until someone eventually just blew up on them.

Ultimately, "I need to protect myself" is just the social media ghoul's "Stop Resisting".