Tumblr, Otherkin, and Political Correctness Overkill

**Frownland** · 02-02-2017, 03:17 PM

lol I remember when Sansa posted that. Gotta love how John Lennon is racist for using a sitar and being influenced by Ravi Shankar.

EDIT: I don't see it there. Maybe they pulled it.

**Frownland** · 02-02-2017, 03:23 PM

Omg the Louis CK one. I wanna send them some Stanhope material.

Chiomara · 02-03-2017, 02:40 PM

I think Tumblr's like reddit in that parts of it are cesspools whereas most other parts are fine. (I've been on tumblr for years and have very rarely come across the teenage demisexual "sjw" types, since I don't follow such people-- so those posts don't appear on my dashboard. You have to be actively seeking them out to see them in my experience. And now there's lots of blatantly satirical ~sjw~ blogs that some people still think are real). There's medieval bestiary tumblrs, various nerdy special-interest tumblrs (and a huge amount of BDSM porn for whatever reason) and lots of fantastic art/photography tumblrs so it just depends on what you're looking for really. It's a good blogging platform for the lazy.

Interestingly, I actually run across "anti-sjw" types a lot, and it seems like half of them are 18-year-old furries with anime avatars who use My Little Pony quotes in serious discussions. So maybe teenagers are just getting stranger and more insufferable in general? (Then again the whole otherkin thing has been around quite a while now-- over 10 years at this point)

...And now I'm suddenly having flashbacks to the AOL message boards of the early 2000s. God those were some unsettling places. (And the chatrooms that always seemed inexplicably filled with foot fetishists, etc)

~~Cuthbert~~ · 02-03-2017, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiomara

...And now I'm suddenly having flashbacks to the AOL message boards of the early 2000s. God those some unsettling places. (And the chatrooms that always seemed inexplicably filled with foot fetishists, etc)

Great memories.

Chiomara · 02-03-2017, 03:13 PM

The roleplaying chatrooms were especially colorful! Great fun for a 13 year old.

Trollheart · 02-04-2017, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiomara

The roleplaying chatrooms were especially colorful! Great fun for a 13 year old.

Depends on what sort of roleplay you were involved in, I guess...

Tristan_Geoff · 03-08-2017, 10:44 PM

I've changed my views considerably since beginning this thread but certain points still remain true to me. I think everyone needs to be respected and understood. I did and will always believe in the full rights of those in the LGBTQ community. I will always respect those of other skin colors as well as people of my own skin color, doing as MLK said as judging not by the color of skin but of the content of character. SJW's, I believe, have the right heart (somewhat) but aren't going about it in the right way. The solution to racism is not more racism. The solution to assimilation and acceptance of the LGBTQ community is not exclusion and shunning. Women are certainly still prejudiced against and the fight for feminism is still worth fighting, but one must understand what the issues are and how they need to be fought against. One must understand as well how harmful the masculine perception is and how harmful standards can be on men. If female genital mutilation is a problem, circumcision should be seen as one as well. In conclusion, all men, women, and children are equal and labels and prejudice need to die.

But don't let it all get to you.

djchameleon · 03-08-2017, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Tristan Rosenstock

I've changed my views considerably since beginning this thread but certain points still remain true to me. I think everyone needs to be respected and understood. I did and will always believe in the full rights of those in the LGBTQ community. I will always respect those of other skin colors as well as people of my own skin color, doing as MLK said as judging not by the color of skin but of the content of character. SJW's, I believe, have the right heart (somewhat) but aren't going about it in the right way. The solution to racism is not more racism. The solution to assimilation and acceptance of the LGBTQ community is not exclusion and shunning. Women are certainly still prejudiced against and the fight for feminism is still worth fighting, but one must understand what the issues are and how they need to be fought against. One must understand as well how harmful the masculine perception is and how harmful standards can be on men. If female genital mutilation is a problem, circumcision should be seen as one as well. In conclusion, all men, women, and children are equal and labels and prejudice need to die.

But don't let it all get to you.

I was with you up until this part.

The two aren't even close to being comparable. If you want to debate the two we could do it in another thread instead of completely derailing this one but yeah....nah bro.

**Frownland** · 03-08-2017, 10:56 PM

One is clearly worse but they're both archaic mutilation inflicted on the people who deserve it least.

Tristan_Geoff · 03-08-2017, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

One is clearly worse but they're both archaic mutilation inflicted on the people who deserve it least.

This is what it boils down to. I realize they're both bad and one is clearly much worse, but still it's being done on children, it's unnecessary, and they're both for misguided reasons.

02-02-2017, 03:17 PM	#331 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	lol I remember when Sansa posted that. Gotta love how John Lennon is racist for using a sitar and being influenced by Ravi Shankar. EDIT: I don't see it there. Maybe they pulled it. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-02-2017, 03:23 PM	#332 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Omg the Louis CK one. I wanna send them some Stanhope material. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-03-2017, 02:40 PM	#333 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	I think Tumblr's like reddit in that parts of it are cesspools whereas most other parts are fine. (I've been on tumblr for years and have very rarely come across the teenage demisexual "sjw" types, since I don't follow such people-- so those posts don't appear on my dashboard. You have to be actively seeking them out to see them in my experience. And now there's lots of blatantly satirical ~sjw~ blogs that some people still think are real). There's medieval bestiary tumblrs, various nerdy special-interest tumblrs (and a huge amount of BDSM porn for whatever reason) and lots of fantastic art/photography tumblrs so it just depends on what you're looking for really. It's a good blogging platform for the lazy. Interestingly, I actually run across "anti-sjw" types a lot, and it seems like half of them are 18-year-old furries with anime avatars who use My Little Pony quotes in serious discussions. So maybe teenagers are just getting stranger and more insufferable in general? (Then again the whole otherkin thing has been around quite a while now-- over 10 years at this point) ...And now I'm suddenly having flashbacks to the AOL message boards of the early 2000s. God those were some unsettling places. (And the chatrooms that always seemed inexplicably filled with foot fetishists, etc) Last edited by Chiomara; 02-03-2017 at 03:12 PM.

03-08-2017, 10:56 PM	#339 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	One is clearly worse but they're both archaic mutilation inflicted on the people who deserve it least. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-03-2017, 03:13 PM	#335 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	The roleplaying chatrooms were especially colorful! Great fun for a 13 year old.