everything can be magical if you let it be. i remember the first time seeing red-winged blackbirds i was just…enthralled. i watched them for maybe an hour. i thought they made the sweetest noises and were just so pretty. and i found out later on that people consider them nuisances and pests. they’re literally common all over the united states but because they weren’t familiar to me they weren’t a burden or an annoyance but something beautiful. if we don’t let other people tell us how to feel about things, maybe we can just like things for what they are
this is a hotter, deeper take than i ever expected to see from this blog, but you’re so fucking right and i think this is a good ass post and a sentiment everyone should at least think about
Im just thinking about that experiment a trans girl did on Instagram (which also had a Female Presenting Nipples ban) where she posted a picture of herself shirtless every single day starting on day 1 of her HRT trying to see at which point the instagram mods would decide that “Yep those are woman boobs we’re shutting this down”
Y’know, the more uproar I’m seeing about Tumblr’s upcoming policy change, the more confident I am that one of two things will happen
A) Tumblr actually follows through with it, and kills their own website. Everyone gets pissed off and migrates to or builds a newer better platform
or B) Tumblr’s staff will go “oh shit” and backpedal on this so damn fast just like they have with so many other updates that people were vocally mad about. Remember that time they tried to merge all the different post-types into one?
I’m not particularly fond of option A, because starting over again and trying to find all you pals would not be fun, but yeah. The immediate anger is gone, now this weird calm just kinda washed over me. Either way it’ll work out, hopefully.
Remember when Tumblr was assigning all LGBT content as NSFW, and now we have really weird liberal policing of people’s “female” bodies in the rules? That’s an issue. The issue isn’t that people can’t nut, it’s a conversation about the severity of NSFW content, and what is and isn’t labeled NSFW. If you’re watching people a little uncomfortable that a site would just blanket ban all content marked NSFW, and you think they’re just Dumb Horny Idiots, like….. That’s part of the problem Bc there is a nuance here and Tumblr ISN’T reacting correctly in this situation. I’m gonna try to shut up more now but God it’s just frustrating
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