*Once again with the please no quoting thing*Yeah, here's the thing,
I've explained the no quoting request before multiple times. It did not end well, and I got my email inbox swarmed with hate mail and people purposefully targeting me, among other things.
A.) I'm transgender in a fairly conservative area of the country. Getting outted means discrimination, and
very possibly violence and maybe death.
Or there's that and disownment along with the murder as a thing that might happen. Transgender people tend to get beaten up or dead here, a lot, sadly.
B.) I've been blackballed from working for about two years by a [redacted] who just got convictions for [redacted], because I wouldn't do illegal things like give 10% of all my income.... If I did what they wanted, it would've basically been buying [redacted] and I'd be in prison, etc. It ruined my life. Imagine your boss is super powerful, now imagine he says you'll never work anywhere ever again unless you give him kickbacks.... Yeah. They don't like it when you turn them in and actively work against you for it. No, I don't wanna talk about it more until he's sentenced and his appeal time limit is done.
C.) The job thing is a concern but nowhere near as big of one as the two previous points. That said, I wish I would've never said anything here (I was trying to talk somebody out of making a serious mistake at the time and hurting themselves and others), because it seems to invite everybody who is pissed off to demand I defend whatever policy or law they don't like. Oddly, sometimes I don't like [insert thing here] either, but they don't wanna listen, and I've actually tried to get certain laws changed that weren't fair and paid a very heavy and expensive price for not being corrupt/turning in others who were.
D.) As I've said, it's sad that people are just comfortable posting anything and everything, because it's real that it can be used against you. There are people who do nothing but that and they are banking on you becoming ok with and feeling natural about posting everything and anything online. There is a movement starting for lawyers to vigorously search opposing parties' social and online media for any possible clue to anything, and it's quite scary and increasingly well funded. Do you really want that one thing you posted when you were 16 on some forgotten site to be taken out of context and held over your head forever? Think about all those posters on all those comment threads saying curse words and sometimes unprintable things, gold mine for people looking to hold it over you for no good reason.
This isn't me being "bossy" (I have no idea why I got called that among other unprintable names). This isn't me telling people what to do or being paranoid. I was just trying to inform people of something that would benefit them. I didn't cause it and I don't approve of it. My god, the last time I did it I almost had to leave and never come back because of the sheer amount of hate (e)mail I got. Shooting the messenger doesn't help and I feel I've still got several arrows in my back....