Reddit is abusive in an unacceptable way also in the lesbian section.

Based on my experience with reddit, 1) poster was completely out of line, 2) you were in the right to report that, 3) usually moderators are quite strict about such things. Well, I guess every subreddit is different. I hope you got a more helpful answer to your question. (I don't know the answer.)

And, just on a side note, as a native English-speaker I always admire and appreciate other peoples' work at learning my language. Now, naturally we expect Europeans to be more cosmopolitan than, for example, Iowans, but thank you anyway. Now, when I'm in France and try to practice my French, they reply in English, because they want to practice too.

 

I was unclear. I mean, in a somewhat joking manner, that you live up to our expectations and *are* more worldly than some Americans who live in the isolated middle of the continent. I'm sorry that I conveyed a different impression. Please continue with your literate and thoughtful posts.

 

No offense, but are you new to the internet? I'm not justifying this trolls behavior or saying that it's in any way acceptable in any world I live in, but I think you'd be well-served to understand that this type of behavior is rampant on the internet. That being said, learning to ignore people like this is probably going to be your best bet. This wasn't some rational discourse on a subject that needed analysis and discussion; this was some troll trying to get a rise out of you.

Ironically enough, their response paints them as the sheltered one. Trolls are always so completely unaware of their own actions and apparently thoughts.

So yea, learning to ignore these people is the best bet. I've never heard of this series so I can't help you out with where you could watch it at. It's not the type of show I'd watch lol, despite being bisexual I'm still very much a guy's guy. So yea, I watch stuff like Breaking Bad and The Punisher haha good luck finding your show!

 

OMG, that must have tested your patience. Strange to say (no not really) I have known such Americans too!

 

I totally get where you're coming from. People should be more respectful, especially if they're part of the LGBT community and understand what it's like to deal with certain issues. However, I find myself often getting into trouble in thinking about what people "should" do or what I "could" do. Reality is often very different from what we feel "should, could or would" happen and when we let our expectations rule our feelings, we're screwed.

All I'm suggesting is try not to let it get to you and try to ignore people like this. Unless you have some way of affecting change on Reddit as a whole, probably best to just let it go.

I hear you though, it's a shitty response from someone who SHOULD understand where you're coming from. It sucks.

Basically, we all have to manage our minds and our emotions, REGARDLESS of how much of an asshole someone can be toward us! The best bet is to have control over your own mind so you can brush people off like that and not worry about it. It sucks, but that's really the most you can do; control yourself and the way you react to things.

 

I understand how EC's strict moderation can be annoying, but after my experiences elsewhere, I've come to really appreciate the moderation here.

While I never got a response as rude as yours, all the LGBT areas of Reddit I explored either had guys with super fragile masculinity (to the point where they'd be pretty harsh if you were comfortable with non-hyper masculine things) or ready to bang asap. I honestly thing it's just how the majority of subreddits work.

 

It's the internet. Not everyone plays nice. It's probs just an old 70 year old hag with nothing better to do than bad mouth today's youth

 

Reddit and 4chan are pretty much the easiest places on the internet to troll. The quality of a reddit sub is entirely dependent on who the moderator is, and many moderators are trolls themselves so don't actually enforce any of the sub rules.

The fact that it's so easy to create throwaway accounts on Reddit gives people extra trolling courage too. Even if their account gets banned they can make a new one in 5 minutes and keep going.

Subs are almost never shut down no matter how bad they get, it took literally years of complaints to get the "watch people die" sub quarantined (thousands of videos of people actually dying in horrific ways), and then there was the whole "red pill" and "incel" sub controversies where pretty much all they did was insult women and support violence against women and it still took years for them to finally get shut down. Reddit isn't the greatest at being a polite and troll-free community.

 

That being said, you're not wrong for feeling offended! We are, as humans, allowed to expect basic respect and consideration from people to an extent, but in the specific situation of being on an online internet forum, I think we have to learn to let this expectation go and expect the unexpected, in a sense. I'd argue a vast majority of people trolling on the internet are sheltered little suburban kids who've never even met a gay person or seen someone do drugs or witnessed a traumatic event, etc. Not that any of those things I listed are related or in any way required for one to have a realistic or cultured view of the world, but the point is, usually trolls are the type of people who haven't seen much. They're not interesting people and don't have interesting life experiences and don't really understand about anyone who's different from them. Therefore, they tend to make fun of everything, because they don't really have anything else. So making fun of everything helps them dismiss what they don't understand, which is most things.