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I am reaching the point where I just want to run around the internet and punch people in the throat. Instead, I am going to watch some movies where bad guys get shot and shit gets blown up, and I'm going to leave you with this from poisontaster's excellent post:

So if the choice is between some of us being uncomfortable while the rest of us being blissfully unaware, I say FUCK THAT SHIT. I am not invested in, nor will I buy into a system where only some of us get to be comfortable and that on the backs of other people. We can ALL be afraid and uncomfortable, as far as I'm concerned. Or we can ALL be comfortable, but either way, we're doing it together or I'm going to keep speaking out, raising hell and harshing squee. Because I'm in this too. And as much as you, I GET A SAY.

So if people are scared, I say, "Good! Join the club!" If people are scared of what to write, I say, "Good! Maybe they'll fail less if they think more!" If some people leave fandom because it's too hard to think someone might disapprove, I'll point them toward the long line of people abandoning fandom because it's too hostile of an environment to make it worthwhile and say, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!" And when it's my turn to fuck up and fail and get things all wrong, I hope to everything I believe in that I have the good friends I do now who will come and tell me that I screwed up and I'd better fix this, and I hope that I have the good sense and grace to own up to my mistakes and tell those hurt, hurting people how truly sorry I am.

Because I will be sorry. Because I know exactly what that feels like.