Spotting the 'cloaked' posters

Hopefully I am not seen as any kind of stooge, even though still fairly new around these parts.

There is one particular rat-fucker here, and I suspect I know who she is IRL too. Does it for her own amusement. I just skip her posts (and so sad that it is a 'her' too).

No such thing as an 'unpeaker', as someone mentioned above, once you have seen it, you can never unsee it.

Maybe they're fans of The Lord of the Rings...?

My ex's new name is Verity, a.k.a. Truth, because I guess the first 35 years of life was all a lie.

All the lurkers #winning tonight! Great thread

But not before they've linked to their blog.
I tend to read threads on catch up (partly because I cant bring myself to post until i have read the whole thing ) & I can really see the nonsense pattern then. When i am there in real time I notice but feel much less sure.
Nice thread OP

I assume Fey = fairy because if you believe in faries then you can believe in any old twaddle...

Fermats

flowers you have transported me back to my schooldays in (insert northern town here) where one of the girls did have a name which was pretty much the equivalent of "Tiffuneh", only coupled to a really prosaic northern surname (think along the lines of "Higginbottom").

"Aye, y'know, the oldest Higginbottom lass. Owur Tiffuneh."

Wigan accent

and their paypal popchyk

I am from Wigan. And I am genuine, honest. Tiffany would sound shit with a Wigan anyway 'Owur Tiffuneh'

I’d be fascinated to see if any studies have been done on name selection.

I know a couple of transmen, both of whom chose names that are - well Not the right generation for them. I’d expect a Dave or an Andy given their ages and they have chosen the equivalent of Noah and Elijah. One of them almost passes, and it was the unusual name kind of gave the game away.

I’d love to know what drives name selection.

I love the name Miranda.

"O brave new world / That has such people in't!"

Is it, like, fey?

It's almost a quick test to distinguish between old-fashioned transexuals, who choose sensible names like Miranda and Helen (waves to Miranda and Helen if they're around - I know they've both posted on MN in the past), and those of the type we are not allowed to generalise about (but about whom Miranda wrote a very insightful blog), who choose names like Tiffany.

Loads of transgender people seem to have Fae as s surname or part of a name.

What Fae stuff?

Oh I dunno. The only Brenda and Joyce's I know are about 80. Tiffany s tend to be about 40-50.
I want to know about the Fae stuff

You never see a Brenda do you? Or Joyce?

Which would be more age-appropriate for a lot of them.

Yup, and they're always called "Tiffany", not some sensible name, or some really witty username (I am in absolute awe of some of the fantastic usernames on here).

Thank you for saying this since I compose most of my posts with the understanding that women are lurking and reading.

OP, I would also like to say thank you for saying this.

I'm afraid I just gobshite out whatever I'm thinking at that moment though - I should probably try harder!

My faves are those folks who use their new female name (or an easy-to-spot variation thereof) as their username on here. They just can't seem to help themselves.

Then someone on here will post "Oh, is that you who was talking about used fishnet tights on Twitter, Tiffany?"

And off they skulk. But not before they've linked to their blog.

I dont like liars

People who tell you what you mean...when your post was very clear....In fact i fucking hate that...i hate having words put in my mouth

And people who say 'bob said....' whan bob didnt bloody say that at all and ive just rechecked a 20 page thread to find the context!!!

and people who say 'im a bit of a lone voice....' WHEN ELEVENTY BILLION PEOPLE HAVE SAID THE SAME SODDING THING

And look.....now I'm shouting!!!!

I stopped commenting for a while because I grew so tired of these types of people. No more.
Well said OP.

We see you.

"Yes. I've also noticed those who claim that they were completely gender-critical until one GC poster or thread said something they disagree with or that might cross the line a bit. Then it's 'I've unpeaked, because of this I'm joining the other side of the debate now.'"

I see this as a not-so-subtle variation on the old favourite of "I used to be a feminist until one feminist, somewhere, in somewhat unspecified circumstances, was a bit rude to me - at which point I realised that the whole of feminism, in all its incarnations, was fundamentally flawed (geographically from Caitlin Moran to Chimamanda Adichie, ideologically from Andrea Dworkin to Naomi Wolf, and historically from Christine de Pizan onwards), and all feminists, everywhere and at all times were horrible bitches." Funnily enough, that's an argument (if one can dignify it with the word "argument") I've seen lots here right since I started posting in FWR many, many years ago.

It did escalate...i cant remember if it was deleted or not