small thoughts part 10

In ‘small thoughts’ posts, I’m posting a collection of short thoughts and opinions that don’t warrant their own post. :) It's been a while! ☁️☁️☁️ I have a hard time finding the words, but I am sad that so much of our inventions seem to reinforce shame we already have culturally in real life. I think I feel it the most with the internet - it's like a place you get to have a second life in where you can have a different name, different looks, different gender, different presentation, voice, interests, whatever you want. But commercialization of it all and the need to have a real name presence in some places or industries online destroys it; people wanting to hunt you down or misuse your material destroys it; social media sites linking your profiles together and letting people find you by number, email, or suggestions by default destroys it. You always have to be afraid of someone linking it back to you, of it costing you your job or career, of someone tracking you down, whatever. I…