#fandom toxics

[matchgirl42]

Reminder

If I see you putting known fandom toxics on my dash, and we’re long-term mutuals, I will give you a friendly heads-up.

If you put them on my dash again, I will unfollow and block you.

I also check my followers, and if you’re reblogging from known fandom toxics, I will block you as well.

This is a hard limit for me.  You want to interact with people known to unapologetically and continually engage in racism, misogyny, ableism, and other types of bigotry, that’s your business and your prerogative, but you’ll no longer be interacting with me.

[matchgirl42]

Thankfully, through judicious weeding of my follow list/dash cleansing, my exposure to the fandom toxics is way, way down.  But I still see today, some of them just breezing right by Tom’s answer to the question in his BBC interview about how he tries to keep his attention outward, and doesn’t pay attention to it/ignores the haters, I see them trying to downplay it, and some even editing that part of the interview out.

It’s just such a cognitive disconnect.  Some will probably even take that as carte blanche to do and say whatever they want in regards to Tom’s personal life.  I love that Tom is so polite, but on certain people, subtlety just flies right over their heads, or allows them to willfully ignore the chastisement.