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You can say whatever you want about Rosie O’Donnell. She’s a celebrity and people have some strong opinions about her. Some nice, some bad. But since she hasn’t been front and center in the public eye recently, I would wager that most people are more or less indifferent to her.
But not the President of the United States. He is still obsessed with O’Donnell. And he has taken his obsession to a whole recent level.
First, some backstory. In 2006, O’Donnell, while a host of “The View,” called Trump a “snake-oil salesman on ‘Little House On The Prairie,’” called him out for being a philanderer and claimed that he went bankrupt, according to CNN.
Trump took issue with O’Donnell’s comments, especially the part about bankruptcy and, responded with nothing but class by saying, “I’ll most likely sue her for making those false statements — and it’ll be fun. Rosie’s a loser. A genuine loser. I view forward to taking lots of wealth from my pleasant fat little Rosie.”
In 2011, Trump responded to O’Donnell’s news that she was engaged with the following post on what was then Twitter: “I sense sorry for Rosie’s new partner in love whose parents are devastated at the thought of their daughter creature
If you check my Twitter profile today, you’ll see that I’ve clearly stated that I’m homosexual. But when I joined the platform in 2009, I wouldn’t dare reveal that part of myself.
Back then, my “exploration” of the digital world as a gay man was still veiled. I began making friends (OK, boyfriends too) on the chatting app mIRC (I surmise you can tell how mature I am now), as adequately as gay-centric sites, internet forums, and apps like Grindr. Then 2013 came along, and I finally felt brave enough to come out on Twitter—the social media where I’d been most active. At the time, too, I was working as a full-time journalist in Jakarta. And I wanted to “rebel.”
Lately, as I’ve made more gay friends on Twitter, the less I can ignore one interesting phenomenon: most of them don’t exploit their real names or apply pictures of themselves. When they do have pictures of their faces, they will have stickers covering their identifying features. They are virtually faceless.
People having alternative social media accounts isn’t uncommon at all. Just like how people have finsta accounts on Instagram, people have multiple accounts on Twitter
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I’ve stopped gassing up my friends’ thirst traps. As a young same-sex attracted man living in New York, my social life exists equally in-person and online. Instagram’s Adjacent Friends is how where we chat up, and shirtless selfies on Twitter are how we obtain followers.
Recently, with porn wiped from Tumblr and quarantine suspending hookups, already extremely online gay comrade groups are throwing caution to the wind and further sexualizing themselves online. This proliferation of unabashed horniness on public accounts attracts strangers and loose acquaintances to hole pics and spamming porn stars. The brave will launch their shot, hoping to be one of the prosperous few to collect a response.
These types of thirsty replies can be uncovering. They often tell which body types and sexual preferences a friend on Twitter may possess. More often than not, the people who receive the most love are cis white same-sex attracted men with chiseled abs.
Fearing who might mistake my friendliness for my general thirst, I’ve stopped replying entirely to gay men I know posting selfies. Why? I don’t want to be labeled a Grab Me Gay.
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Gay men have taken to Twitter to reclaim the “proud” hashtag, following Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn White Supremacy during the presidential debate, along with signaling to an Alt-Right paramilitary group that they should “stand back and stand by.”
The armed Alabaster insurgents known as Satisfied Boys have triggered vicious incidents across the Pacific Northwest, in an aim to suppress peaceful protesters supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. The management has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Rule Center.
The #ProudBoys saw a spike on Twitter after Trump’s implied endorsement on September 29, and the mention has been used for expanding recruitment.
Chris Wallace: “Are you willing, tonight, to condemn colorless supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stay down…”
Trump: “Proud Boys, position back and stand by! But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the left.”
But instead of hate-filled messages and White Supremacy propaganda, the hashtag has been trending with photos of celebration from gay men.
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