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I just have to make shitty feminist poetry. It doesn't have to good but as long as I work in how strong I am and how I will crush patriarchy beneath by high heels, thousands of people will love it!

Or I can reblog articles from satire/joke sites and pretend they are real!

Or spend just spread lies in the modern version of email chains (guys you can use your finger to tell if a mirror is 2-way!).

You seem very bitter.

Nope, just amazed at how stupid Tumblr is.

No, definitely bitter.

About? Do you write shitty feminist poetry? Did I insult you? I apologize.

It's no stupider than LJ was in it's hayday, or DW. Or facebook or twitter or myspace.

Guess what happens when people get into a large enough group anywhere in the world? they say and do stupid shit. And the next generation of idiots is no more idiotic than we are, and we were no less stupid than the morons that came before us. We just have our own stupid filters (Like how we can't accurately hear what our own voices sound like until someone records us), and our own stupid peers in our own stupid circles constantly reinforcing the false idea that we are better and less stupid than those other stupid people.

The stupidity doesn't really get collectively any less stupid regardless of the direction you travel, it just evolves in to new breeds of stupid that we trick ourselves into believing is smarter than the previous and next stupid.

TLDR amazement at stupidity is the mark of the un-self-aware.

Or make heavy-handed straw comics about the issues.

I want there to be a Tumblr Savior-like function where I can preemptively ban all Tumblr comics of that stripe. The originals, the edited responses, all of them.

Can we add fake Powerpoint presentations to that list? Make it an option, at least?

YES! A thousand times yes!

Or talk about how evil straight/white/cis/men are. And then scream like a victim when people call you out on your shitty behavior.

I have done all of those things and am only at 250 followers, so clearly you are wrong.

And to be popular in the Sherlock fandom, you just need to write fluffy OOC Johnlock.

In other news, bears shit in the woods.

You could also run a "youarenot-enter ethnicity here-" cultural appropriation tumblr where you ~*~call out~*~ those evil, exclusively white biatches who appropriate you precioussssssss~

You sound bitter, both for your exaggeration and the implication that you think being popular on Tumblr is a goal worth achieving, that you are entitled to achieve any way you think fit.

Apparently the quickest way to become anathema on tumblr is to state that "I hate cis people" is not a suitable reaction to transphobia.
I don't hate cis people, I hate the transphobic subset of cis people who refuse to learn, and I am NOT about to risk the tiny toehold of acceptance we might have just because I'm angry and pissed off and feel like making blanket statements.
Trans people are few and far between, we're between 0.5% and 3% of the population, I might be the only trans man someone meets, and so there's a lot more than just my feelings at stake in how I publicly react to transphobia. People are going to be basing their opinions and stereotypes of trans men on me. I owe it to myself and to all transgender people to demonstrate that we're not insane, selfish, twisted whackadoodles. We're ordinary men and women who come at gender from another angle. Shrieking generalised hatred isn't going to accomplish that.

Also, most people aren't even really aware of transgender people. This doesn't make them assholes, it makes them unaware.

This has been your monthly tumblr-is-bonkers rant AND your weekly reminder that Gondremark is trans.

Edited 2014-03-03 02:12 (UTC)

This. "I hate cis people", "I hate men", "I hate straight people" is fine to scream into a pillow when you're alone and 120% frustrated with everything at the moment. But those words don't bring about a lot of change. You vent, collect yourself, and continue on with life.

On more generous days, I think most of the people saying this are teenagers/young adults who don't really know how to pick their battles yet. Everything's vital to the struggle and all that. God, I'd have burnt out years ago if I'd kept up like they do.

And that's the problem. The kids on Tumblr think that what they sob into their pillows in the depths of their misery is suitable discourse for social change. They just don't get it.

Hopefully they'll grow up and what we're seeing on Tumblr is just a mass of teenage angst, but I had an argument on this subject with a tubmlrite who I know is in her mid twenties and a grad student. Scary times.

You can also gain a good deal of popularity by making really uncomfortable remarks about menstrual cycles. Bonus points if you manage a pokemon parallel and/or dragons.

Wait, what? Menstrual Pokemon? How does that work?

I find porn is a good way to get popular. A couple of posts that get 40k+ notes or reblogs means nothing, few people will actually follow. But porn? Why hello new people!

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