No time for trolls

"Do you get trolled?" is something I'm always asked. So, here is the answer.

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“Do you get trolled much?” is a question that people ask me all the time. At dinners, in pubs, at events, on panels. Friends, acquaintances, total strangers. It’s a curious question, a juicy one too — but why do people keep asking me this? Is it because I am constantly doing controversial things that look “trollworthy?” I don’t think so. I am also not sure it is necessarily to do with ‘me’. I have a theory that something else is lurking beneath their question, a subtext: