i will face God and walk backwards into hell

I started masturbating analy with one finger and it felt good but not great like i never got anywhere and git kind of bored

Every time tumblr implements some wildly unpopular and unnecessary update to make the website function more like twitter, they do so with the justification that they need to attract new users to the website to stay financially viable. To that end, they make changes that are unwanted by the existing user base to try and emulate the features of other, more financially successful social media platforms. They do this routinely without much regard for how it disrupts the existing functionality and culture of the platform.

I think we need to look at the targeting of transfems through this same lens. Despite all the animosity we face here from users and staff alike, tumblr is one of the few public forums around with this many open and proud transfem users, and it is genuinely a center of transfem culture on the internet. That is something that cannot be said of more financially solvent platforms like twitter and instagram (at least in proportion to the platforms’ overall user bases), whose success tumblr wants to chase. Here, we get into some really uncomfortable economics. There are far more people on the open internet (that tumblr might consider potential new users) who are disgusted by transfems and our culture than there are transfems. Many advertisers see a large presence of transfems as a liability and a risk that they don’t want to associate with their brands. These are the people tumblr wants to attract to the site regardless of how it impacts current users and communities. It’s not just staff being bigoted — it is a company trying to cater to the bigotry of society on a much larger level.

If I understand correctly, medieval French folk tales considered chestnut-colored horses to be deceitful and tricky; the Old French word for a chestnut or dun horse was fauvel, and so the Old French expression correier fauvel, literally "to brush the chestnut horse", meant lying or being hypocritical for personal gain. This turned into "curry favel" in 15th-century English, and then mutated into "curry favor" over the next few centuries as people forgot about the horse.

So "currying favor" is really "brushing the Horse of Lies", and the reason you can't curry goodwill, or love, or hatred, or even disfavor is that we didn't have Horses for those.

I realize, looking back on this post, that regular readers of my blog may have thought I made this up. Making up a ridiculous etymology is certainly the sort of thing I might do; in fact I've been meaning to start a sideblog dedicated solely to sufficiently accurate etymologies, and have a notebook with dozens of them jotted down, I just haven't had the time to do anything with them.

But I want to stress that this is not one of those cases. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the very real etymology of the phrase "curry favor".

The Old French fauve or falve referred to the light-brown color that's sometimes called "fallow" in modern English, but since it also sounded similar to faux, meaning "false", it was also associated with deceit and trickery ; the idiom estriller Fauvel literally meant "to groom the fallow one" but idiomatically meant "to lie or trick people".

Then in the 1300s we get the French poem Roman de Fauvel, a satirical poem about a fauve horse, whose name is derived both from the color and from the fact that FAVVEL is an acronym of Flaterie, Avarice, Vilanie, Varieté, Envie, Lascheté (Flattery, Greed, Vileness, Fickleness, Envy, and Cowardice) - all the different vices that this horse embodies.

Fauvel (purportedly modeled after Enguerrand de Marigny [source], an advisor to King Philip IV) is a sinful, conniving, and very rich horse who has various religious and secular leaders fawning over him and brushing him; it was well-known enough that "grooming Fauvel" came to mean "sucking up to someone powerful" more than just "being evil", and when it was translated into English the grooming was translated as currying, which specifically is grooming a horse with a curry comb [wiktionary]. From this we got the Middle English expression "currying Fauvel", which then mutated via folk etymology (in the "reinterpretation of unfamiliar words as more familiar ones" sense, not the "people are wrong about etymology" sense) into "currying favor".

Curry favor in:

Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curry_favor

Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curry%20favor

As Rabbi Brant Rosen, co-chair of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council, writes:

“How will we, as Jews, bear witness to the unjust actions committed in our name? Will these olives inspire us to be bearers of peace and hope for Palestinians — and for all who are oppressed?”