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It's wild to watch the phrase "tumblr sexyman" morph into "man that tumblr thinks is sexy," because when I first saw the phrase come into use, I always saw it used in reference to the phenomenon of "when presented with a wide array of fictional characters, tumblr will always pick the skinny white man to obsess over, and if the fan-favorite character has no canonical human appearance, the fandom will inevitably create a popular fanon of the character as as a skinny white man."

Things I think of when I hear "tumblr sexyman":

"is 35 too old for the club?"

the thing you must realize is that the fear of Looking Hysterical is something that can be and often is weaponized against us by those invested in maintaining the institutional status quo. they will simply say "if you're worried about this, you're an irrational hysteric" and SO MANY FUCKING PEOPLE will just immediately go "oh ok! well *I'm* not an irrational hysteric, so I guess I'll just be really skeptical of people who are worried about that :) Because I am so rational and intelligent"

i love how the government can go "we are purposefully going to stop tracking and measuring the harm done by this disease" and everyone just falls in line instantly like "uh oh, we don't have enough information to speculate!" like yeah they knew you would say that. that's why they did it. they know that limiting the amount of information we are able to even have at all is an instant potion of "general public will assume anyone who thinks this is important is crazy conspiracy theorists" lmao