I'd just expect a bit more decorum from actual Patreons.
Not to defend the people who leave disgusting comments (I find them repulsive as well and I agree that they have no place in any comments section), but I am not convinced all of those comments are necessarily meant to hurt her (some of them clearly are though). I can understand that some people don't know how to react to news like this since they are either not used to it or just don't know how it works.
I am somewhat in the same boat in that sense since I don't have any feeling with what she felt before at all, which makes it more difficult to know how to react sometimes since I don't know a lot about the topic at all. That being said, I have tried to somewhat read up on it from time to time over the last couple of years because of this community and because I never want to offend anyone.
I personally always try to be open minded (like I said before, I am very happy for her and I think everyone should be able to live their lives how they want and be themselves), but I can see how some people genuinely don't know how to approach this.
That being said, I have also seen some comments that don't leave any doubt that those people just comment to either hurt/offend and/or because they are assholes.
But if you think about it realistically, there is no way all Patrons all think alike one any topic at all.
It's sad to see them react like that on a Patreon post (I haven't seen it myself, but it might have been cleaned and I didn't go through everything), but I can't say I am necessarily surprised either.
That being said, I am actually positively surprised with how the general reception is (but again, they might have been cleaned a lot, I don't know).
The best thing you can hope for with such a large number of people is that Isla doesn't get too much shit thrown at her and that some people who don't know a lot about it and don't know how to react learn about the topic and learn how to deal with it in a respectable manner. I wish that one day in the not to distant future everyone reacts in a respectable manner even if they don't necessarily "agree" with decisions of other people but we are unfortunately not that far (yet?).
