Something I knew intellectually but didn't grasp emotionally

Hey so the thing about how being in fanpol circles where you absorb a very dogmatic set of beliefs that, if someone disagrees with you, they're either someone who's too stupid to know better or someone who is wilfully against you, really does seem a lot like social justice internet circa 2012 doesn't it?

Like this explains why I sometimes run into people responding to posts on pro-shipper accounts who clearly aren't there just to say slurs and tell people to kill themselves, but have that edge of "You're wrong and it's my duty to save you from your wrongness" that sounds a lot like how people described me when I was deep in radfem indoctrination hell.

And both groups also prey on the vulnerable and cause them to become more alienated from people who they could have healthy relationships with, with some of them ending up perpetually angry loners who glean a sense of community from distant parasocial figures but can't actually get along with anyone on an one-to-one basis.

No wonder the moment I was medicated and emotionally better off, I just couldn't hold onto the idea that queers on the internet writing about anime boys having buttsex is a legitimate problem to address.