Your reference to Quetzlcoatl slew me. Well done.

Very true. And very scary.

I frakkin' ADORE Samhain. It's my favourite three days of the year!

I love that you know the Irish name for this celebration. LOVE!

Nothing specifically to that is mentioned, but the carving of pumpkins is the new world adaptation to the old world carving of turnips and gourds and placing them at the doorways and windows filled with candles. It was done to help guide the spirits of the dead home to join the festivities. Settings would be placed…

Let's go together!

So would I. If money was no object, I would spend my entire life in study.

Celtic Studies nerd here... actually Hallowe'en has traditionally been a time of giving bread or treats to the less fortunate. In medieval Britain and Ireland, the poor would go souling, which is going house to house and offering songs or prayers for the dead of the household in exchange for food, or guising, where…

Snort. That was fucking brilliant.

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And given how horribly doxing can affect people, that's saying a shit tonne.

1) Spoken like someone who does not understand the psychology of fear. Whether actual physical harm is ever done is totally irrelevant. The mental damage is horrific.

"Uncool" is cutting in a queue. Doxing is more than just uncool, and reducing it to that does real disservice to the level of damage these kinds of attacks can, and obviously do, do.

Yes. Yes they do. Have fun dismissing actual history, love.

Um... Gamer here. Woman. Feminist. I slay dragons on the regular. Kindly don't lump all gamers with #GamerGate. I'm not associated with them.

Right?!

Doxing is a big fucking deal.

Death threats cannot be both made and imaginary. If they have been made, then they are very real. Minimising the horrific damage even an uttered thread can do is not helping your case.

Um, women were very much in play "hundreds of years ago." Here, because self-education seems impossible for you (i.e. - Google is your friend):

I fucking love that man.