Foone🏳️⚧️
Working in tech while trans is often a very weird experience because the associations you have with various organizations are constantly proven to be not be universal.
Like you'll be talking to someone who is implementing a auth system with the company that protected a site with a known death toll, and when you had gently suggested on your Twitter that they stop protecting that site, you got doxxed and death threats.
Or your boss suggests we buy a tool from a site that doxxed a friend.
Foone🏳️⚧️
Or when the community is like "open source project Z is the best!" and all you can think of is how one of their main developers harassed another friend of yours, a friend who is sadly no longer with us, in part because of harassment just like that.
Foone🏳️⚧️
And you can't really go around yelling at everyone who deals with these sites and projects and companies or it becomes about you. The issue becomes "foone has a problem with Y and Z", not "Y and Z have done bad things".
So you just gotta shut up, most of the time.
Foone🏳️⚧️
(don't ask who any of these people or organizations or companies are. That's not the point of this thread)
Foone🏳️⚧️
It's like when someone outside the LGBT community mentions J. K. Rowling and you realize their own context for her "activism" is "she said Dumbledore was gay"
✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧
@foone or become sufficiently feared that you having a problem with Y and Z gives people pause
Foone🏳️⚧️
@whitequark indeed. Sadly at the moment I don't have that reputation in my professional life. Now, if they were asking about floppy disks, I'd be able to apply my reputation...
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