BronxWench

Well, if you count bending pipes and pulling wire, there’s a good bit of upper body strength required for an electrician. However, my daft one (who retains his membership in good standing in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) has met female electricians.

Those trades don’t require any more upper body strength than say Policing, or Military, which have females in their ranks. I find these “blue collar” trades are a bit of a boy’s club thing. I had a friend that was trying so damn hard to become a plumber but no one would take her on as an apprentice. 

@BronxWench
Really? It never rains fire where I live. Well, virtually never.

It’s dragon weather here….

We have a line for melting witches, and it starts all the way back there…. ::points vaguely in the direction of Europe::    

w00t!

::pounces and hugs::  Hi, KoKoa!!!

The thing is, people make a bigger issue out of a breach here at AFF than a breach at Equifax, which exposed highly detailed personal information and financial accounts to bad actors. They wouldn’t have given a free year of credit monitoring to anyone whose data was exposed otherwise—Equifax hates to give anything away. 
Here, you’re just going to be embarrassed when your friends and family find out you read dubious porn about mainly fictional characters.
(And frankly, if you’re that conflicted about your taste in reading materials, maybe you shouldn’t be reading things on AFF in the first place. Just sayin’… )

I’m not upset at you at all! Sorry if it seemed that way, but it was one of those things last year that was endlessly frustrating. In the scheme of things, it wasn’t a big deal although we had a few people who wanted to make it more than it was. Quite frankly, I was a LOT more worried about the big players—Equifax, banks, phone companies—because those guys DO have data on me. AFF is not in possession of any information that will lead back to me without some effort, and even then, I’m not all that worried about people knowing where I play and read. I’m too damned old to care what they think about me.  

You and me both.  Now the internet writing sites won't know what hit them again .  Lol. (And the trophy is for a win, not so much thanks .)

You can tell if you’ve really upset BronxWench around the time a Banshee begins shrieking on your roof.

I’m not upset at you at all! Sorry if it seemed that way, but it was one of those things last year that was endlessly frustrating. In the scheme of things, it wasn’t a big deal although we had a few people who wanted to make it more than it was. Quite frankly, I was a LOT more worried about the big players—Equifax, banks, phone companies—because those guys DO have data on me. AFF is not in possession of any information that will lead back to me without some effort, and even then, I’m not all that worried about people knowing where I play and read. I’m too damned old to care what they think about me.  

No you’re not.  I’ve given you a lot of opportunities to make jokes at my expense or insult me, and you haven’t done so.  As for accidental awkwardness, I do that all the time.
Speaking of which…
I’m sorry.  I didn’t mean to annoy you, BronxWench.  I was just trying to make a guess based on my own personal experience.  As it happens, I’m honestly not even sure why you’d need an account just for reading (unless you’re really dedicated to reviewing stories that don’t allow anonymous reviews).  Again, sorry if I bothered you.

Walmart has toys…  

Walmart has toys…  

Speaking as someone who has written incest, rape, bestiality, torture, gore, snuff, mpreg and, earning me forever a place in the lake of fire, furry anthro, I totally support this statement. I tend to go for the jokes when they pop up, but I am sorry if I grossed you out too much. Maybe the reason I’m convinced there’s no nasty people on the forum is that I am the nasty person.
Those quitters! *Shakes fist*
Target does have some adult oriented objectification anyway :p
 

I’m mostly grumbly because things tend to get magnified simply because we’re an adult-oriented site. Hacking Target and getting someone’s credit card information seems to pale in comparison to finding out their email address is linked to AFF somehow.  I’ll also say that the majority by far of the “Oh, gods, delete my account now, man!” emails I got were from readers only, not writers. 

I’m mostly grumbly because things tend to get magnified simply because we’re an adult-oriented site. Hacking Target and getting someone’s credit card information seems to pale in comparison to finding out their email address is linked to AFF somehow.  I’ll also say that the majority by far of the “Oh, gods, delete my account now, man!” emails I got were from readers only, not writers. 

No, I developed the email I have listed here exclusively for AFF purposes.
Okay, I know that was a joke, but seriously, while I find incest a powerful fantasy and story element, both on a physical and emotional level, that’s in the abstract.  Thinking about that with my actual family members is seriously gross.  Some fantasies really only work when detached from any personal experience.

Assuming you didn’t sign up with an email attached to any of your real world stuff it’s pretty unlikely they’d make a connection anyway. I only use Joandoe@gmail.com for fanfic related stuff so I figure the most they’d have for me from a fanfic site would be the site username, password (different to other sites!) email address and maybe a dynamic IP. So, meh.
There’s never really been any jerks on the forum. There was one dude who wanted to have hard-right flame wars on religion or guns or whatever a couple times but got kinda an apathetic response. I guess sometimes you get jerks in reviews, especially with the anonymity. I got the odd ‘die in a fire’ email over the years.
“I’m heartbroken, son!”
“Mom, I-”
“Why did you write it with the sister,” *scoots close*, “and not the Mom?”
*Old Folks at Home begins to play*

I think it may have to do with the way other people look at you afterward.  Personal data mined from Equifax?  You’re a victim of malicious hackers and you have everyone’s sympathy.  Family and personal acquaintances find out you wrote stories featuring incest or rape?  Suddenly the fact that your data was hacked matters way less than the stuff you wrote.
Again, I think the worry is less about the stuff you read and more about the stuff you write.  Explaining The Woman in the Statue to my parents would be awkward, but if they found out I wrote Little Brother’s Lesson over on Literotica, I guarantee you there would be a very painful conversation about why I wrote a romantic incest story.
I...suppose I could leave, delete my accounts here and on Lit and delete the stories from my computer.  The conflict there is that I am actually enjoying writing WitS and happy about the fact that other people are apparently enjoying reading it.  In addition to that, everyone here has been really nice to me, and I can’t accurately communicate how much that means to me.
I don’t know.  Maybe I’m just rolling the dice and hoping that hackers figure I’m not significant enough to screw with.

Yep, it’s Australia
 

I just hope that the spam will stop… or at least lessen, now that I’ve flagged everything, and reported spam and phishing and all that crap… but man, Charlie Cox was busy  
 

I was recovering my other gmail account, and had hundreds of spam crap addressed to Charlie or Charles Cox…    And everything that had a country domain thingy at the end, ended with the Australian domain name. At least I think . au is Australia…  

Those bad actors were no joke, either. Hugh Grant rang me up and mocked my credit score.