re: TERFs, internet teams
@pandora_parrot it's essentially tribalism, right? the capital systems of social networks encourage and reinforce behavior that makes us more antagonistic to each other than we otherwise would be.
I have had productive face-to-face conversations with "truscum" folks about trans identity in the 2010s that weren't adversarial at all, that I'm sure would have gone very differently in a social media setting.