#requireshate

a reminder (2014, anonymous source)

"she has changed!" yeah she doesn't send direct rape threats anymore, she just takes the side route and calls queer people she doesn't like rapists and rape lovers (all her comments on het and m/m fiction are this)

Incidentally, she may try to hide it these days but Winterfox/RequiresHate/Benjanun Sriduangkaew's circle was responsible for some of the worst dogpiling of Isabel Fall in 2020.

thread by the person who later originated the "year 1988 as Nazi dogwhistling" line and one of the earliest and most widespread "criticisms" of the story, complete with conspiracy theories about the author being a stealth TERF:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210118200009/https://twitter.com/EffInvictus/status/1215994150094626816

from this user's profile:

yeah, pretty much. they're bitter little freaks, and I'm pleased that 1) considering where most of them live, they'll probably get reinfected by COVID over and over and 2) will not ever amount to anything.

and 3) there's no free healthcare for what those reinfections will do to their bodies. What a pleasing world.

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bonus: deleted tweet

Someone contacted me privately about some remarks I made about this line of speculation. They told me that they had met Winterfox in person, and that her appearance and presentation were consistent with her online descriptions of herself.

The person who contacted me is definitely not Winterfox - they have a fairly large online footprint and a completely different communication style - and I feel sure that they're telling the truth as they understand it. So, my apologies to the people I named as possible Winterfoxes.

So there was this blog, Requires Only That You Hate. (Trigger warning... all of them) Somewhat Internet-famous, once memorably described as “performance rage.” It was kinda amazing, in a horrible way, savagely slagging sf books and authors, playing the sexist or privilege card on everything within range. Apparently some people have been tracking this anonymous troll/drama queen since back when LiveJournal was a thing. I’ve been on the Internet a long while, I like to think I’m as jaded as the next guy. But this trolling was weapons-grade, it wound me up, it was infuriating and made me want to engage. I mean, I’m not white, that’s worth something isn’t it? Sanity prevailed and I stayed out of the fray, but I kept reading and put her blog in my RSS feed reader. It was a great vaccination, because truly, afaik Requires Hate is the ne plus ultra of trolling. Requires Hate got doxxed, outed as Thai blogger and Campbell Award nominee Benjanun Sriduangkaew. So what’s the point, what’s the lesson to be learned? Hateblogging is counterproductive. Hateblogging is stupid. Maybe not a stretch to say that hateblogging is evil. Here’s Laura J. Mixon’s compendious rundown on Requires Hate’s attacks, one of which apparently caused a suicide attempt. Another lesson, social justice rhetoric is easily weaponized. RH bounced around for a while, but settled on social justice language as the perfect vehicle for the vitriol. Vicious righteousness, what more can you ask for? Sriduangkaew’s public apology says “I believed I was doing good and was punching up.” How’s that? Requires Hate is forevermore my touchstone for radfem #killallmen fuckery. Performance rage indeed. Performance and posturing, take a tough stance and shout over everyone, instead of discussion and engagement, or God forbid, compassion and empathy.