I feel you on the "compromised" problem. I desperately want to lead a public life, because I'm not ashamed of myself1 but I do recognize that eventually, my students -or coworkers, or bosses, or parents- (in increasing order of problematic) are going to find me.
My secret hope is that by spending a lot of time on the less well known parts of the internet, I will defy my students, who are used to the snapchats and the instagrams.
~Sor
1: I recognize that there are other reasons to want to be private about your identity, but for me it has always been a weaponized reaction to societally enforced shame --if I tell you "hell yeah, I'm a kickass queer poly kinkster" with a voice full of pride, you can't use those words to attack me in the same way. Similarly, ADHD, nonbinary, rape/abuse survivor, "weird", etc.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Pseudonymity
Date: 2018-12-29 06:25 pm (UTC)My secret hope is that by spending a lot of time on the less well known parts of the internet, I will defy my students, who are used to the snapchats and the instagrams.
~Sor
1: I recognize that there are other reasons to want to be private about your identity, but for me it has always been a weaponized reaction to societally enforced shame --if I tell you "hell yeah, I'm a kickass queer poly kinkster" with a voice full of pride, you can't use those words to attack me in the same way. Similarly, ADHD, nonbinary, rape/abuse survivor, "weird", etc.