Re: Privacy, Anonymity, and Compartmentalization
I don't do the technical forums stuff too much, and my "forte" would be art, biology and evolution, anyway. And as far as I can recall, my first handle was cporter9 on AOL, and I've kept that in some way ever since. So I don't value anonymity because I don't find it important to me, I will be as rude or as polite as I want to be, whatever name it is, and it usually is my name. Also, I changed my name in high school, so I'm perhaps overly satisfied with it, because it's my personal choice.
I do use a "non-gendered" names for gaming characters, and I'm reluctant to join gaming groups of strangers. So I do know that I'm sometimes reluctant to say I'm female on portions of the internet, but that comes after years of various stalkers which have mystified me and made me slightly more aggressive that I would normally consider myself. Fuck with me and I will stab you, you poltroon miscreant!
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