"your bullshittery has been revealed... check out thinfaces tumblr page, your internet past has been lurked and revealed... posts have been circulating, showing that you too were fatphobic and essentially are a giant hypocrite. great job... hope some of your followers can see your full of crap now too. :)"

You mean the effort anti-TITP blogs have been making to quite literally cyberstalk me?

You know cyberstalking, harassment, and defamation are crimes, right?

And you know you’re aiding and abetting cyberstalking, harassment, and defamation by sending me messages like this — right?

Consider yourself warned.

For anyone who wants to know exactly what this post is about — how I’m being cyberstalked — I’m not going to link to it for obvious reasons. It very clearly breaks not only Tumblr’s rules but also anti-harassment and cyberstalking laws. Basically some troll asshole who knew me from an old messageboard is now a 4chan /fit/ troll and recognized my fucking picture on this blog (creepy!), then sent a bunch of messages to his troll buddies connecting me with that messageboard. Through there they found an old photobucket account, and connected my RL name through that. Then these gross trolls spent days copy-pasting any link they could find to my name, Wayback Machine stuff from my activist blog, and so on and put it in a big document to pass to 4chan and Reddit trolls so they could form a cybermob to cyberstalk and harass me. This includes personal work info, you name it. Stuff I keep separate from my activist life because activism-related stuff isn’t my bread and butter.

Mostly this was just them wandering my internet trail, flummoxed. They found something they thought was fatphobic, but given that I made that post a full year after becoming a fat activist, I’m 100% sure it was sarcastic. But that’s just it. Defamers and stalkers aren’t after ‘truth.’ They’re out to ruin someone’s reputation. What they discovered (and maybe why they were so flummoxed) is that my internet trail is pretty interesting and fairly normal for an activist going through a process of intellectual revelation and revision. It’s also fairly normal for someone who went through a ten-year ED and suffered several traumatic and abusive events.

I’m proud of my past, how I recovered from a lot of shit, and what suffering, being wrong sometimes, and recovering and learning taught me. And how much of a better person I am for what I’ve learned, and for what I continue to learn.

Also…can I just point out the incredible irony of entire blogs dedicated to fatphobia moaning on about something “fatphobic” that I said (which wasn’t even the case)? Do you really think my followers are so ignorant they’ll miss the fact that you’re all just a bunch of fucking trolls trying to tear me down? And why in the world do you think me being personally attacked, cyberstalked, and harassed by trolls is going to turn TITP’s followers against me?

This troll-logic baffles me, it really does.

And, for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, I recommend Anita Sarkeesian’s video about how she was cyber-mobbed. It’s rather relevant, at the moment, though I wish it wasn’t.

-ArteToLife