[ SECRET POST #2923 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2923 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I think that sums up a lot of what's fucked up about Tumblr; they're too concerned with appearing empathetic and caring that they're actually neither. Most of them haven't got the first iota of experience with the causes they're trumpeting, but still seem to think they know better than those actually experiencing it.

[lb_lee]

Bingo. It's a problem a lot of places have, but with the tumblr reblog system and the mass social justice things there, it becomes really painfully apparent.

I think my biggest, "really guys? REALLY?" was when I had to debunk this idea that a certain term was coined by a certain marginalized population and could ONLY be used by them. I got asked by a couple baby anons (and I'm glad they asked, rather than just swallowing it wholesale) and I was able to debunk it with like, five seconds on PubMed. And then I left a longer, more thorough post about it, because I knew that I had the correct labels and street cred to challenge this bullshit without getting trolled.

It really bothers me, the sort of theme there that to question ANY sort of social justice thing is bigotry, unless you have the correct identity labels. Like, I get where it's coming from, but no seriously, the ability to critically reason is SO NECESSARY.

[(Anonymous)]

Critical reasoning is in short supply on Tumblr though (which may be part of the reason it's such a terrible place for even discourse as trivial in the grand scheme of things as fandom discussion).

Tumblr is more about knee-jerk over-reacting bandwagon-jumping and generally jumping and hate-mobbing on anyone who expresses even the mildest form of discord.

I'm not sure where to find critical reasoning anymore, honestly. Which is both sad and scary.

[lb_lee]

Enh, I've gotten caught by fake posts too. Again, the UI makes it worse.

For instance, if I come on F!S and say, I dunno, "Jesus was actually a Men's Rights Activist and anyone who says otherwise is MISANDRIST," people would come down on me like a sack of bricks. And then, anyone who saw my comment would see all the "NUH UH"s underneath.

However, with TUMBLR, what happens is I make a post like that, and it's very easy never to see the "NUH UH"s. Especially if my post goes viral and everyone mindlessly reblogs it without any of the commentary, so people keep rehashing the same shit over and over, unable to see that it's already been done without sorting through thousands of reblogs.

So yeah, part of it is an echo chamber effect, but the very interface makes it worse.

Pervocracy does some pretty great debunking though; surely there must be some debunking tumblrs out there, and they must have all the material they could ever want.

[(Anonymous)]

I quit Tumblr for exactly that reason, actually. I'd seen a bunch of posts with misinformation come across my dashboard over time. I'd tried to correct them, but, well, I had less than a dozen followers. The misinformation had thousands of reblogs. I might as well have been yelling at a hurricane. (The final straw -- someone reposting a cutesy misdefinition of a word originally coined to justify slavery, and saying 'omg this is so me!!!') It just got too exhausting.

[lb_lee]

Ugh, yeah. If I never have to see that stupid "OMG gaiz, sugar in sodas carmelize when you heat it ISN'T THAT DISGUSTING???" post ever again, it'll still be too late.

YES GUYS. SUGAR CARMELIZES. THAT'S HOW CANDY GETS MADE. GAH.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

It drives me nuts when it comes to missing people, because 9 times out of 10 a quick googling shows the person was found three years ago!

[lb_lee]

Oh man, I didn't even THINK about that! Yeah, due to tumblr's UI, it's not clear whether a missing person post is days or years old.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a lot of depressed &/or spoonie tumblr-friends, and the sj-wank (pro- more than anti-, maybe, though anti-sj types can be really horrid) gets scary.

Could you NOT yell at my profoundly ill friend online over minor crap, thanks?

There was a blog that pretended to be "fandom" but also spent a lot of time ranting about their personal idea of how neurodiversity worked, which seemed uneducated to me, and they would scream about things that I thought were just stupid.

And then they went after a friend of mine. Who had an autistic brother. And is a spoonie. Because she used a word they didn't consider politically correct.

And due to my own psychiatric history, I don't think their definitions were actually even close to sensible or right.

I don't have the skillz to track them down, but I kind of wanted to say, "I'm going to call your mom."

At some point I had to just back away from the tarbaby of engaging with them.

:(

[lb_lee]

YUP. I'm still astounded THAT I haven't gotten trolled yet, despite being open about my history and weirdness.

Well, except for that one time about Foreskin Man. But that was SPECIAL.

My general rule with tumblr is, whenever I see something that makes me mad, I go, "Wait. Is this worth having an argument on tumblr for? With all its UI issues?"

The answer is pretty much always no. It's like trying to have an intellectual debate entirely on sticky notes, outside on a windy day.