*flees back to the journal*

[gryphonsegg]

Like a fool, I tried to follow discussions on tumblr instead of just looking at nice pictures and keeping that as my fluffy fan art and fuzzy animals happy space. I tried to follow non-fandom feminist discussion on tumblr. Ugh! Everything people say about "gender/sexual identity" and "social justice warrior" tumblr is true. EVERYTHING. Tumblr: where radical feminism is about hating women for not being perfect, all other types of feminism are about how female-assigned-at-birth people should shut up and stop complaining because every kind of oppression is so much worse when it happens to male-assigned people, trans safe space is for people who want to "socially transition" and exclude those weak and unradical people who have actual sexual dysphoria, queer activism isn't for those mean and icky lesbians, and asexuality is about wanting to have sex but not preferring or getting emotionally attached to a specific partner. I never want to look at that bullshit again. Also, I never realized how protective of Ellen DeGeneres I could feel until I saw someone ~critiquing~ her for not being Radikewl Queer enough. It wasn't the first time I'd seen someone dissect a female celebrity's image for any and all possible points of failure to appear sufficiently threatening to whitecisheteropatriarchy (somehow the Very Progressive Feminists and Queer Activists never seem to get around to subjecting any male celebrities to this particularly personal kind of "critique" where they go after not what the person has actually said but who and what the person is), but Ellen was the last straw for me.

Comments

[lady_ganesh]

This is why I follow people on Tumblr rather than tags, even though most people seem to do the opposite (or both). The only Ellen reblog I remember is the time she did the '50 people I'd marry' thing and her answer was 'it's always Portia.'

[gryphonsegg]

Eeeeee, that's so sweet my teeth hurt! <3 That's the kind of thing I wouldn't mind seeing reblogged a million times.