I like your fambly. It reminds me of mine a bit. :3
I guess I line up mostly with the stereotype of the internet activist: White cislady, US citizen, able-bodied (mostly), middle class, not very activist IRL.
But then, like you, I grew up in a family pretty committed to social justice and skepticism of the world and culture, so activism kind of came naturally to me.
Also I'm not very active in general IRL because I am kind of terrified of social interaction. This does not stop me from opening my big mouth in RL spaces where I feel comfortable (around friends and family, mostly) but it does keep me from pursuing larger activist groups.
I often feel like the idea of the Dogmatic Activist Fandom Witch Hunt thing is more fiction than fact. At least, I almost never see anything like that when I read discussions, and certainly never to the extent I've seen of anti-activism attacks. Possibly it's an outgrowth of the tone argument thing?
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I guess I line up mostly with the stereotype of the internet activist: White cislady, US citizen, able-bodied (mostly), middle class, not very activist IRL.
But then, like you, I grew up in a family pretty committed to social justice and skepticism of the world and culture, so activism kind of came naturally to me.
Also I'm not very active in general IRL because I am kind of terrified of social interaction. This does not stop me from opening my big mouth in RL spaces where I feel comfortable (around friends and family, mostly) but it does keep me from pursuing larger activist groups.
I often feel like the idea of the Dogmatic Activist Fandom Witch Hunt thing is more fiction than fact. At least, I almost never see anything like that when I read discussions, and certainly never to the extent I've seen of anti-activism attacks. Possibly it's an outgrowth of the tone argument thing?