The retaliation inherent in the Internet is daunting. Sometimes one uses an unreal persona to hide, and sometimes to harm. I just commented on a racial piece and I am now having second thoughts since the trolls love that shit, or any feminist stuff. But if everyone is either hiding or harming, where do the few exposed people who just honestly want to be real stand? Alone and vulnerable? In my case, I usually make the choice to avoid the stuff that is too incendiary, the topics and sites that are magnets to the unhinged. It just seems like some days the entire world is composed of caricatures, ciphers and ghosts.