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.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Wait, there's women on the internet?!

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

[–] cannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I opened this post knowing 100% that I'd find this comment.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 3 weeks ago

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 weeks ago

The internet

Where men are men

Where women are men

Where kids are FBI

—1990s USEnet era adage

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes, but weirdly, none of us play MMOs.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

You're not missing much

[–] babybus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I know a few who play as male characters to avoid attention.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would play as male characters and then dye their armor pink and flirt relentlessly with the boys. It was fun, especially when you’d get on teamspeak with them after playing together for weeks and they’d be like “wait you’re a girl?”

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

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".

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Horrible, but still not as bad as exploring it as a girl 🤢 I don't miss being a kid

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Annie get your Powered Work Loader.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 3 weeks ago

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Can confirm. Went as Final Girl on Among Us and wow. Dudes got ~~viscous~~ vicious inside minutes.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you mean vicious?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, and corrected.

Though viscous seems applicable as well.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If an actual asshole manages to type anything at all on a keyboard, it should get to post whatever it typed.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

ppaproobpbababprapyat

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Get that shit rock hard, dehydrate, eat lots of meat
Get in position above the key you want to press
Let the turd slip out, just enough to press the key
Slurp that shit back up
Repeat.until.done.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What if we all pretended to be women because such harassment to a sufficiently wide audience would be extremely isolating

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

I believe you read this incorrectly.

[–] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Llufollis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 :::

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't see the screenshot, both from Voyager and the web UI

[–] Llufollis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago