Things I Learned From Tumblr

Never let people’s actual lived experience detract from your loyalty to academic theories. The proper response to a lived experience that falls short of your theory’s outcome is pity, not a rethinking of the usefulness of theory.

I'm just hating on you for being crazy as balls. There is nothing at all wrong with me doing this.

We think it may be a case-by-case thing? Like, the term may be used that way sometimes but not all of the times we've seen it used.

We do have a disclaimer in our sidebar - but looking at a lot of reactions we've gotten, we figure specifically noting that certian posts are sarcastic is probably a good idea.

Being white means you aren’t oppressed in any way, shape, or form. Even if you’re disabled. Or female. Or trans. White privilege erases all these oppressions!

(For previous Anon)

hidden-agender replied to your post:

I just default to singular they. There are still people who feel misgendered by it but they’re usually quick to say so, and it’s by far the most neutral option out there.

spider-kitty replied to your post:

We've been mulling over this one for days and we really don't know how to answer. :(

Magic!

There is only ever one All Important Cause, and if someone calls me out on something else while I’m defending this cause, then I can dismiss it as derailing, because it’s not about the All Important Cause. I can be as much of an asshole about everything else that is not my All Important Cause, because only MY All Important Cause matters, and everything else can go to hell.

Intent is not magic. …Except when it is.

If someone says that something I’ve posted is offensive, and I don’t see it myself, then I can dismiss their claim. It’s totally cool to use excuses like “I didn’t mean it like that!”, “you’re just being pedantic”, “you missed the point”, or “get some reading comprehension!” to avoid having to explain myself, as well. After all, if I can’t see anything offensive in what I wrote, then obviously you were just reading it wrong, or just looking to get offended.

If something happened more than thirty years ago, nobody is allowed to talk about how racist, misogynist, ableist, etc. that thing is. It was a different time!

If you want to talk about how your personal experiences as a sex worker were awful (or just not that great), you are somehow being anti-sex worker. However, there’s nothing wrong with creating a pro-sex worker culture where nobody is allowed to talk about their own negative experiences without being shouted down. Especially an online culture where pornography workers have a louder and more legitimate voice than survival sex workers.

Wanting to end oppression is a "bullshit ideology".

If I declare that I am "not an SJ blog/blogger", this gives me a free pass to say anything racist, misogynist, ableist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive that I want to, and nobody can call me out on it. I'm not an SJ blog, you can't call me out about SJ concepts!