Thread by @SecretGamerGrrl

So last night I tossed one of those posts up that just sort of inherently generates big numbers and gets a lot of responses, trying to encourage people to speak up about transphobia with a few more teeth than the usual. And that's been happening and all quite positive, except for

one rather striking response from an account not following me or much of anyone else taking pretty huge offense to the whole notion and going off on a ridiculous tirade. And yes, to my lack of surprise, this did in fact appear to belong to a combative sort from the UK. I'd parade

it around as a textbook example of unconscionable behavior, but as is frequently the case with these things, the real point of the post was to try to bait me into saying something aggressive to play victim over. I failed to take the bait, so the bigot in question deleted the post

and blocked me, to avoid any consequences. Apart of course from other people spotting that in the replies, doing an independent confrontation and spilling childish garbage into my mentions all day.

So the reason I'm actually bringing this up is to once again remind everyone that

you should never, under any circumstances, reply in any way to trolls clearly trying to provoke you or someone else. It's always a trap, and you can always criticize that sort of thing without directly engaging with them. Or with their original target. I never want to see that.

The way I look at it you have to treat Twitter interactions like the whole Gom Jabar scene in Dune. There's this downright instinctive hard to resist response (calling out assholes) but you need to resist actually doing that and just give no reaction whatsoever to show discipline