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How Twitter can ruin a life
Vox ^ | 06/30/2021 | Emily VanDerWerff

Posted on 07/04/2021 8:17:03 AM PDT by tbw2

How Twitter can ruin a life

Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next.

As a trans woman early in transition, Fall had the option of retreating to the relative safety of her legal, masculine identity. That’s what she did, staying out of the limelight and growing ever more frustrated by what had happened to her. She bristles when I ask her in an email if she’s stopped transitioning, but it’s the only phrase I can think of to describe how the situation appears.

Isabel Fall was on a path to becoming herself, and then she wasn’t — and all because she published a short story. And then her life fell apart.

(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; sciencefiction; socialjustice
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1 posted on 07/04/2021 8:17:03 AM PDT by tbw2
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How Twitter can ruin a life
Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22543858/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter


2 posted on 07/04/2021 8:17:21 AM PDT by tbw2
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Twitter & Twitch are deadly when used by the ignorant. My estranged daughter is a young prosecutor. I have so much video and texts that I copied from her social media accounts. She was (is?) very immature and was openly mocking Attorneys, Defendants, Toxicologists, etc., online. I even have video of her stating that she is “evil in court” and gets “giddy” when people are hand cuffed. If this was ever released publicly, her carrier and credibility would be gone (right Jamie!). What she does not realize is that if I have this all of her heart broken teenage Twitter fans could also have this and release it any time. My advice to everyone, stay off of these platforms.


3 posted on 07/04/2021 8:24:11 AM PDT by RBW in PA
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Wow, I couldn’t finish that. There are many bat-sh!t crazy people out there. If you are male, be a man. If you’re female, be a woman. Each has unique blessings and curses.


4 posted on 07/04/2021 8:24:22 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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"...her legalloony, masculine identity." Fixed it. Anyone who goes along with this lunacy is guilty of enabling it.
5 posted on 07/04/2021 8:25:34 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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6 posted on 07/04/2021 8:25:56 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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“Sometimes you can figure out you’re trans by writing about being trans.” Please, no one let me write about being trans...

I did not read the entire article lol.


7 posted on 07/04/2021 8:29:42 AM PDT by Nabron
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Celebrate Perversity......flag needs a sarc tag for morons. But they wouldn’t understand that, anyway.

or, What Perversity do you go to?


8 posted on 07/04/2021 8:39:11 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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...Fall had the option of retreating to the relative safety of her legal, masculine identity.

If it's masculine, it ain't a HER!

9 posted on 07/04/2021 8:43:01 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Nabron

With genderism we can finally say that the Left is now literally beyond gay.


10 posted on 07/04/2021 8:43:46 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: bk1000
If you are male, be a man. If you’re female, be a woman.

And if you simply can't, please KEEP IT OUT OF OUR FACES.

11 posted on 07/04/2021 8:45:37 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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I read a dozen paragraphs. That is such mixed up, twisted, convoluted, confusing balderdash that I had to a quit reading and down several cups of coffee to straighten out my mind.


12 posted on 07/04/2021 8:47:09 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I’m not a conspiracy theorist....but, I don’t believe in coincidences, either.” ~ Steve Bannon)
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Twitter is evil but it can’t ruin your life if you don’t let it. It is a regressive microcosm of better-than-thou idjits. That includes Christian Conservatives if they still use it.


13 posted on 07/04/2021 8:47:40 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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I rather like the attack helicopter thing. Sounds like fun. But I have no ammo.


14 posted on 07/04/2021 8:56:17 AM PDT by Bethaneidh
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I read a dozen paragraphs. That is such mixed up, twisted, convoluted, confusing balderdash that I had to a quit reading and down several cups of coffee to straighten out my mind.


I thought it was just me. I tried to read the entire thing. i really did..........


15 posted on 07/04/2021 8:56:55 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: RBW in PA

for the sake of real justice release this information.


16 posted on 07/04/2021 8:58:35 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: tbw2

Mental illness ruined his life.


17 posted on 07/04/2021 9:02:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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Using Twitter is akin to taking a dip in Lake Erie back in a year like 1975.


18 posted on 07/04/2021 9:02:39 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Bethaneidh

Forget the attack helicopter, I identify as an F-15.


19 posted on 07/04/2021 9:03:11 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: tbw2

More like, how being delusional and stupid ruins your life.


20 posted on 07/04/2021 9:06:26 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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