ok this dni has me sobbing
proshippers are the ONLY thing on the list
this person doesnât know what they are
I've written at length about the inherently performative and neo-puritanical nature of DNI culture and the stigma and vitriol around the term "proship", including their ties to fascist dogma, historical violence, and anti-queer sentiment but none of it sums up the issue better than this one line written without a drop of irony. "I don't know what this is and openly admit the definition is purposefully so vague that anyone can fall under it when necessary, but it's required that I loudly and even violently condemn it or else I will be labeled as part of the morally degenerate" It's not about safety. It's not even about telling anyone that they shouldn't interact with you. It truly, truly, just exists to loudly exclaim "I AM PART OF THE CORRECT MORAL GROUP BY DECRYING THE INCORRECT MORAL GROUP". You don't need to know what "the incorrect moral group is". In fact, trying to find out is taboo in and of itself. You just have to hate it.
And yet another good PSA to the kinds of people who write DNI:
Only you are responsible for keeping yourself safe online. You have no inherent rights or authority to tell any kind of other people to not interact with your blog. You also are not capable of knowing what kinds of people interact with your blog in most cases. The only methods you have to protect yourself on tumblr are:
The block button
The 'no anon asks' button
The buttons that make your posts non-rebloggable or non-commentable
The 'make my blog or posts private' button
The 'scroll past stuff I don't like' movement of your fingers
People are not required to go to your blog homepage to read about your education level and mental issues (aka, your inability to keep yourself safe).
If you feel like you need to post DNIs, you need to get off the web, honey, it's not safe for you.
DNIs are also a great way to expose yourself to harrassers and trolls. You make yourself unsafe by posting DNIs.
