[quote] The tone and message behind these posts are very different from what we saw at DL even a year or two ago. There's been a shift and it's largely due to an influx of trolls with a clear agenda. The sock puppetry is so obvious with all the "finally, a voice of reason!" posts after every diatribe. They're painfully obvious.

True. I'm just not clear on who they are, other than primarily women with one guy, or someone pretending to be a guy. Their obsession with Michfest (which they've toned down lately) and "women's spaces" and "women's bathrooms" and women in general says that they are old women who can't deal with the fact that their music festival wasn't able to support and sustain itself. They blame the trannies because the trannies called them out on their bigotry. The festival had been failing for ten years and if they're being honest it was actually a financial failure long before that.

We know how totally insane the Michfesters are, that's why the Fest has been so notorious (and hilarious) on the DL for so many years. They brought their insanity here because we, unlike their own sites, actually allow them to post (for the moment). Nobody gives a fuck about Michfest but the Festers and us. Most people have never even heard of it, it was so small and insignificant.

I never gave a damn about trannies and I still don't much care other than finding their attackers here to be annoying and intrusive. Trannies are free to live their lives as they wish just like the rest of us and good luck to them. We know our own history, we know what happened at Stonewall. It doesn't send me off the deep end when a tiny minority of people talk shit about it and claim ownership that they don't have. So what? There are lesbians who do the same thing and gay men who never set foot in Stonewall who claim they were at the heart of it. I don't freak out and go into a rage about them.

I can't see all of these anti-tranny trolls being right-wing trolls. I believe that some of our right-wing trolls help the anti-tranny trolls promote hatred and discord on the Datalounge. Mostly they seem like lonely, emotionally disturbed older women who don't have enough to do with their time.