I'm not gonna reblog that tumblr staff post because it's a cesspit, but I do think the huge number of comments saying stuff like "trans women are the people who built tumblr" are categorically nuts. Tumblr has always been the Fandom Teenage Girl website since its inception. Many of the teenage girls just grew up into men and enbies, but it's still the Fandom Girlie Website
I keep seeing this revisionist narrative of Tumblr's demographics and it's bonkers to me as someone who has been here since 2010 and seen a dozen mass influx and exoduses from the porn ban to musk buying twitter, and tumblr only started getting a significant transfem population after the bullshit with twitter and reddit.
And this is gonna be a hot take, but I think the rancid tme/tma discourse that's been going on the last few months is just reinventing misogyny with new labels. It's ludicrous the amount of vile unconscionable and, let's call it what it is, bullying, I've seen targeted at (specifically) transmascs on this website who were here for years and years before the people screaming at them were old enough to post here.
Like... yeah, it sucks when there's bias in moderator decisions, but you don't need to lie about the history of the website and its community to push back against it.
