How much do you hide your powerlevel in real life?

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I have visible tattoos and piercings so everyone thinks I’m progressive and all into the gay weirdness.

And then as soon as they bring up adjacent topics to the above they find out I’m an orthodox Christian and completely against things like transgenderism and abortion and am in a straight marriage lol.

So I don’t hide at all, I just am more polite in delivering my opinion when I’m on the clock vs on my free time.
 
I used to strictly talk about safe topics when I'm with unfamiliar people. That was especially true during my college days which made me fucking miserable when other peers were parroting dogma like their lives depended on it. I've noticed that the older I get the less I seem to care about others' opinions, as such that I won't hide my PL anymore. Does it land me in hot waters? Yes. Was it worth it? Absolutely.
 
It depends who its with. I've been selective about revealing my TERF-ness with mixed responses. Very few people know I use KF and some that do don't know I have an account and post frequently.

Most of my views aren't verboten so I don't worry about hiding them. They are well considered and evidenced so I'm not bothered if people try to come at me. Most who do don't bring actual arguments, its crazy how deeply people will defend ideas they clearly haven't thought through.

Generally I find it best not to cause offense or consternation unless I need to. Guess that's female socialisation but also its just laziness. I can't be arsed to get into a tranny debate with an acquaintence so unless they're expecting me to go into a changing room with one in it right now its just not worth the hassle.

I have had my views changed, and changed others, through rational debate so in the right context and with the right interlocutor I'd be willing to disclose most of my values and beliefs if I think they're relevant to the subject.
 
I don't mention the farms or any other internet things I get up to. But I don't particularly care about hiding my power level as I'm rather visibly a more 'traditional' Catholic (I wear a crucifix, always veil outside, have a rosary bracelet, and a prayer card in my phone case) so most immediately assume I'm conservative, anti-LGBT etc etc.

With close friends people are fully aware of my views on things, we're all quite comfortable having political debates etc, but we are a (mostly) right leaning group lol. Nobody bats an eye when someone drops a slur

As I've gotten older I've stopped caring about what people think. I've found having a smaller but close group of friends that have similar morals is what keeps you sane, so I'm not particularly shy about who I am.
 
I think it's attention-seeking edgelord (male) behavior to go around screaming your controversial opinions to everyone like they care. Tranny supporters are cringe and gay and I associate with them as little as possible and people I'm close to know what I think. People I'm not close to, it's none of their fuckin business what I think and if they have stupid opinions, I'll nod and smile while cringing internally because who gives a fuck, I'm not a sperg (male).
 
I have literally never met another person who actually finds the internet interesting. I could name drop the Kiwi Farms and 10 of the most popular Lolcows and all I would get is blank stares. It’s not even worth mentioning that this is one of the few websites I still enjoy.
 
I live in Russia. I have to dial down Farms-related political talk when it's weird, not when it's "controversial" (it's not).

Like, troons and pooners are a problem here to a greater extent than people assume. (RIA, Russia's official domestic propaganda channel, bats for troons and gay surrogacy. Sberbank, the largest bank, does the same through its lenta.ru site.) But If I go on an extended anti-tranny rant, people will be put off by what they think are spurious, lurid accusations, not because they think trans women are women and child castration is lifesaving.

(Also, some of what I post in A&H is trolling. I don't troll IRL.)
 
I've pulled back from most people irl, but I still feel like I need to talk to people online or I will explode.
 
I've got this guy I do business with once a month or so and when we meet we're very jolly with one another talking about this or that, we help each other out, but he always has a tale to tell me about some Jew he dislikes or some rich Jew who purchased this or that. I've known him about 18 months and I've yet to tell him I'm half Jewish.
 
Nobody around knows what KF is and I don't talk about it.
Everyone knows I hate islam and sandniggers, and that's one of the reasons I don't exactly want to show up at a high school class reunion, I don't want to interact with that bunch of euro-liberals and it's both-sided.
My family and some friends know I don't believe in gender. I don't elaborate, they'd ask how come I know so much and why the hell I am so mentally invested in that.
(Why shouldn't I? People I know got lured into that cult and some are about to - I gotta know how it happened and what's so appealing.)
Every now and then I call out some double standard, but I keep terfy thoughts mostly to myself.
 
I like staying employable. The most I express is that I don’t identify with any political party.
 
i live in god-forsaken new england so basically all the time other than with like family
 
I don't tell people irl I have an account on this site because of opsec, but I don't care if they see me browsing while logged out. I've laughed out loud at troons and pooners in public before (not on purpose, it just slipped out). I never bring up trans stuff irl, but when someone else does, I bring up whichever facts are relevant to what they said (e.g. Lupron side effects, autogynephilia, ROGD, trans male crime statistics, etc). I dislike getting into arguments over ideology, but I don't see the trans topic as ideological. I see it as a public disinformation campaign that needs to be deboonked, and I am the 30-year-old deboonker. If people don't like hearing the facts, they can choose not to bring up the topic around me.

A surprising amount of people are trans critical, and once they know you are as well, they feel safe voicing their opinions about it. It's always the ones you least expect, too. The sooner the pendulum swing happens, the better, so people can stop pretending to deny reality for fear of judgment or violence. The emperor has no clothes, and we all know it.

I'm a bit more careful with the slurs. I'm willing to risk being assaulted by a stranger for saying that men are not women, but not for something as small as saying faggot. Retard is the exception, of course, because people who get offended by that word are pussies who have anxiety attacks ordering a pizza over the phone. They'd sooner piss themselves than punch you, and if they do, it won't hurt.
 
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My full name is a name that can generate a bunch of nicknames so I say my nicknames as pronouns and then say I don’t care. If I think the person is young and is trying to be polite I also explain I believe I have no control over what pronouns people use for me, therefore, I don’t think about them at all. I’ve had a few trans coworkers and they don’t even ask pronouns, they will correct you if you seem unsure though.

When it comes to this site, I have like a few friends I will share posts and threads with if they have an interest in a lolcow but don’t wanna join the site because it’s only one cow they enjoy. On the topic of my opinions, it’s only people I feel comfortable debating with that I express my true opinions to, which are the friends I share KF links with and my Dad.
 
The furries i know have no clue I'm anything beyond what i let them know.

My friends? They either think the same as me or we never talk about the subjects that come up here.

My coworker? They know nothing about me. They don't know I'm a furry either.

This site is the only place i kinda act like myself, mask off, outside of around my partner who worries about some of what i do here.
 
I have brought it up in the past - I have a hard time hiding that I don't believe troons are women, and that 'theybies' are not something I will entertain.

I've only told one or two people I use KiwiFarms; one is an actual sperg who later asked me about it when I was on the clock, and my older sister thinks it's a Nazi website. I don't bring it up anymore, because nothing positive has come of it.

I don't talk to anyone but my father about my actually left views, because there's never a real opportunity to talk about it. Most people around me are shitlibs, so I don't bother.
 
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The situations usually are either having to fill out bio info and there's a mandatory field for pronouns without options aside from preapproved list, or real-time moments where everyone is asked to introduce themselves and their pronouns. Sometimes the facilitator is nice enough to add "if you're comfortable", and I take that as an out. There's also usually a question after that, like talk about your role or whatever, and I will "forget" to give my pronouns after my name and just jump into talking about my role. I gave a recorded interview one time where I had to give my pronouns and I cringe thinking about how that exists out there. My colleague conducting the interview even told me she didn't want to, but our advisor wanted it that way.

I have noticed, recently, a little less of the pronoun BS around me, so I'm hoping we are in a trend away from it entirely. I don't ever want to see pronouns in an email signature ever again.
 
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