Administrative Snorlax

me: i have a very specific tumblr accent meme im thinking of that surely i should be able to pull up by searching the text in the meme

i did find it btw but having a COMPUTER address me like it’s a person sent me into such an incandescent rage i nearly pitched my phone clear across the room

I don't fully agree. Of course it would be bad and stupid to try and lock every 17 year old out of every social media platform. But I do think there are places on the internet where an 11 year old shouldn't go. There are places on the internet that truly are not made for children. There are scams and predators online that young children are often too trusting to recognize. There are radicalization pipelines you should be kept away from at that age. And I truly do think it's worth it to limit younger(!!!) children's access to the public sphere if it keeps them safer.

Access to information doesn't make people's lives worse.

Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Every single non trans woman who proclaims to be an ally absolutely needs to be posting about how goddamn transmisogynist staff is.

Medievalist here for triumphant fact-checking: this story is, if not true, at least true according to the history of the Danes (Gesta Danorum) written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus. You can read his account of Alwilda’s story in the original Latin here, or in English translation here. Highlights include:

just saw a "tragedies iceberg" with titanic and chernobyl at the top and the bhopal disaster near the bottom...i'm begging you to have even the slightest hint of curiosity about the world around you...the bhopal disaster is literally considered the world's worst industrial disaster!!!!!!!!!

Take a look at the people that were affected by each. The Titanic affected almost entirely rich people from the US, and Chernobyl affected western europeans. The Bhopal disaster? Poor people from India.

first, the iceberg metaphor is exactly about what's most commonly known, not what's more important or severe. op seems to be getting mad that more people don't know about something while also being annoyed that someone else pointed out many people don't know about that thing.

"Chernobyl affected western europeans"

Yes

I assume Peter is already out to his friends and family, it just doesn't come up much.

npr ran a story this morning on air about the recent supreme court ruling in favor of trans youth sports bans, a ruling that specifies trans girls in particular and allows even public schools in red states to do whatever kind of exclusionary policy they want. and for this story they interviewed two people: a teenage trans boy in massachusetts who participates in tons of school sports, and an activist trans man in nyc who runs a nonprofit for trans youth. I'm not saying that either of these people have absolutely nothing pertinent to say about trans youth issues, but the teenager from MA mostly spoke about how lucky *he* is to participate in sports and the activist from NYC spent the entire interview plugging the book he wrote while barely answering a single question. The activist guy mentioned that he actually has spoken to the west virginian trans girl who was part of the case, but only to say how proud/sad he is to watch her become an activist "just like him".

Ugh...upsetting but not surprising.

Hate it when a piece of media ends with the bad guys going to a psych ward instead of jail. “Don’t worry we’re compassionate we’ll send the villain to HEALTHY jail instead of normal jail”

When we talk about the autonomy of suicide, it's almost always discussed from the side of the right to die — which is definitely important and does need to be accepted by more of society. But there's also the side of the right to live. Until society stops punishing people for their existence and depriving them of what they need, the autonomy of suicide for everyone cannot be reached. Because when people are killing themselves because of changeable, societal structures, that is not a completely autonomous decision. It is one that has been forced upon them.

You guys need to recognize that the push to treat ace and aro discourse as stupid infighting that never left tumblr is indeed a manifestation of the continued erasure and devaluing of asexuality, aromanticism, and and ace and aro lives in an effort to pretend that the people who did it weren't part of a reactionary hate movement that completely decimated two entire marginalized communities both on and offline.

I do want to say if you got caught up in this I don't hate you, especially if you learned and changed, because like most reactionary hate movements ace/aro discourse was always presented as righteous and fun, and also it was EVERYWHERE and the people stirring shit were very well articulated. A lot of us were teenagers joining queer spaces for the first time ever and we wanted to belong and sometimes that means hating who the people who already belong tell you to hate. I get why people fell for it, I came close a few times myself when I was at my lowest and most desperate to feel like I belonged again. I get it.

Reblogging again after seeing YET ANOTHER person say ace/aro discourse wasn't mainstream and didn't leave the internet. People got kicked out of irl queer spaces behind this, stop fucking lying about what happened. At this point more someone pushes the "ace/aro discourse was bad but not mainstream/offline/as bad as what's happening now with [xyz group]" the more I think you have a vested interest in making it out to be not a big deal and that doesn't say anything good about you.

"Discourse" is such a weak euphemism for bigotry.