I love when an IP is so fucking old and ironclad and its core modern audience is so indecipherable and hard to easily segment that their social team just does whatever
it’s crazy seeing someone suggest that terfs being able to recruit use and abuse transmascs, intersex folks and lesbians is a problem with other communities not accepting those individuals, instead of, you know, those susceptible to being recruited by transmisogynist communities have an exploitable transmisogynistic bias that they are happy to exercise to receive whatever passes for community (typically exploitation) over transfems.
is that not literally the exact same logic as “we have to be nicer to men so they don’t become MRAs” but instead of men not being responsible for their misogyny it’s TMEs not being responsible for their transmisogyny? Hello???
from my sources adjacent to tumblr–from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector–im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i’m hearing there are about 25 people left.
If this is truly the beginning of the end, it’s been an honour 🫡
Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers
so long as we’re back to social justice 101 on this stupid website, u need to be aware of the feedback loop that emerges from disproportionate scrutiny: any social group that is placed under extra scrutiny, regardless of the actual prevalence of any particular behaviour, will appear to engage in that behaviour more often.
you see this most blatantly with racialised groups (more cops in black neighbourhoods = more arrests in black neighbourhoods = “omg look at all the crime in these neighbourhoods!” = more cops in black neighbourhoods etc). even if the rate of crime is the same (putting to one side the criminalisation of poverty which is also an important related factor), one group gets away with it way more often and a new generation of racists is indoctrinated with the crime statistics which “prove” that some groups are simply more criminal in nature. we see a similar phenomenon online with particular groups (trans women being a huge example) being subjected to mass stalking, their every move documented by weirdos and broadcast as representative of the group as a whole.
tl;dr - overscrutinising groups based on existing bigotries creates a recurring feedback loop, reproducing those bigotries across generations and nominally justifying them. this is bad, and you need to remember that you are not immune to it.
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