#pride flags for us

Original post by @intersex-ionality [Link] It’s an older post but is still relevant to what’s happening now with the mod changes.

Anonymous shouted: did you see that pride-flags-for-us closed because "mogai is corrupt" and shit? gosh, i'm really sad that a resource is being closed down because "teen lesbians might id as homoflexible for a while" or whatever

Is that why @pride-color-schemes opened up? I was wondering what happened there, but honestly I just try to avoid getting too far into the hellscape that is “mogai is toxic” discourse. Like, I have to pick my battles, and I pick “the ones that actually come to me because there’s already so many, why would I ever look for more.”

Anyway, I’m not going to say I’m surprised about this. Things like mogai-archive and pride-flags-for-us get an enormous, disproportionate amount of hatred, and very little in the way of vocal support because, well, the communities they are fighting for are very small.

After a few years of being told at a rate of 97% that you’re filthy, toxic, rotting waste, you start to wonder if people are right.

They aren’t right, of course, but there’s no way to know that when it’s all you ever hear.

These things happen.

I am very sorry to see another positive resource blog get nuked, but I am very much not surprised.

[Hermy here]: Just clarifying, I originally made my DA pride-flags back when PFFU was still a great blog because I wanted to help out and keep all the flags in one place. (I actually asked several times if they’d like to add me as a mod but always got an “I’ll ask the other mods about it”). I made mogai-flags later (honestly I don’t remember if PFFU was still good or going downhill at the time I made it), but then dumped it for this since I made an entirely different account for it instead of a sideblog and then realized I couldn’t add mods to it. 

But yeah, this is another reason why I’m going to be super careful in adding new mods, so I’ll add people who already know a lot and have strong opinions already on discoursey stuff so we don’t fall for their shit and end up going down the same path if this blog gets super popular. The problem with tumblr (well, one of the maaaaany problems) is that there’s no way to kick admins so if even one mod “goes rogue” or something, they can really mess things up. 

As blah as they are now I do have some sympathy for them for all the shit they have to deal with on a daily basis and hope that one day they’ll turn back around or at least add some mods that can deal with all the negativity that’s thrown at them.