While reading "What Happened When I Confronted My Cruelest Troll", I felt a lot of different emotions from shock, anger, and disgust on how Lindy West's online trolls have harassed her, not only on her work but for her looks and more. She states that, "the volume and intensity of harassment is vastly magnified for women of color and trans women and disabled women and fat women and sex workers and other intersecting identities" which displays that as we have always been pushed from a young age to embrace our differences, it is these differences that may make us victims of trolling. Society, while striving for diversity and uniqueness, has also created an idea of normal with the "fieriest trolling" coming from straight white males who victimize those outside their circle of normal. So, although we have been told that it's okay to be different, is it really?
"Normal" is subjective. Rather, it's a universal idea of what seems commonplace. In reality, "normal" is non-universal. My point is, your "norm" will always be someone else's "odd" and will therefore ostracize or victimize you. It's okay to be different; you'll be victimized regardless of what you do.
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