mmm_burrito

Ask your female friends specific questions about their online experiences. I bet you'll find this is more common than you think.

This may be of interest to you, or it may not, I dunno:

My girlfriend suffers from misophonia and I've developed a kind of pseudo-misophonia after being together for 9 years. I'm constantly monitoring for her triggers so I can redirect her attention, take action to drown them out, or at least warn her.

This has caused me to develop a stress response to these triggers. It's dwarfed by the magnitude of her experience when hearing the same thing, but my stress response has grown over the years. It fades a bit if we're apart for a week or more, but I'm never not constantly on a swivel and I will mentally tag and track any such trigger in my vicinity no matter what.

Edit: It's been surprisingly welcome to hear that I'm not alone in going through this. I love my girlfriend and I'm not sorry I look out for her, but it's nice to know people understand what it's like to experience this phenomenon.

I agree that this privacy issue is concerning, but considering the state of internet polarization and hostility these days, calling it a minor issue seems somewhere between a deliberate lie and a state of laughable naiveté.

There's a reason we have words like doxxing and swatting. These things happened often enough we had to name them. I've known women who have had guys track them down IRL to harass them when they didn't get satisfaction from their online trollery. I've seen reddit mods go from popular staples of the community to having to scrub their entire social media presence over a weekend because their grandparents were receiving death threats.

God, I'd love to hear what people in the industry think of that switch.

Explanations != excuses