cw: tumblr

[nerdflighter]

1. the more I hang around tumblr, the more I wonder how any good politics ever arose out of there. I've been engaged in oppression jokes discourse all morning -

oppression jokes are jokes where I go "I oppress blondes!" and then my blond friend goes "am I a joke to you?" and I go :). they're also used badly by radfems and exclusionists to say things like 'men/aceys want to be oppressed so bad'. I still think they're funny, especially because I'm hardly going around dropping them into random people's inboxes unless i know they're okay with it. most of the oppression jokes I make happen in private chats and servers, or on my blog. but a bunch of people decided that their boundaries has to be everyone else's, otherwise those people were immoral oppressors (a line of thought that came from people who harp on constantly about how tastes in fiction aren't an indication of morality or reality) and now I'm just tired.

and then I saw this stellar fucking take, which yeeted me out of my consciousness and into a nether dimension full of soulless ligbeets screeching about how ~50 years of academia are completely useless because their tumblr-educated ass said so. I have not yet recovered (please tell me all the ways in which that post is wrong: I'll love you forever if I don't already)

how did we ever manage to turn out a single good take? why is that place so bad? (don't answer the second one). i love tumblr, but increasingly i have to wonder why.

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[fred_mouse]

I must admit that most of it went over my head, because I actually don't know what point they were trying to get across for most of it.

But every time I see something equating Queer with being a slur, I want to start waving a cane and shouting get offa ma lawn! Because this little black duck found Queer and the complexity that it represented, and has IDed that way for nearly 30 years, and I'm so sick of the Kids Of Today trying to take that away from me.

Not to mention, it really feels like someone from a specific country trying to spread their own little prejudices across the rest of the world.

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[nerdflighter]

ha, I'm a certified Kid Of Today™ and from my point of view it looks more like a bunch of...largely American badpolitics that gets unfairly universalized to people w/o that experience...there's something uniquely, well, colonialist about demanding that everyone have the same relationship to a complicated word with a complicated history (you can quote me on this, if you want. I'm Allowed to say these things)

tumblr is a hotbed of bad takes - at this point my permanent emotion is ben_affleck_smoking.png

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[fred_mouse]

Indeed, American badpolitics is pretty much what I was implying in the last sentence. And yes, the Colonialism of the USA is so very frustrating.

It's fascinating -- concurrent with you posting this, I grabbed a graphic novel out of the local library which is called 'Queer', which turns out to be a graphic not-novel about Queer Theory. So much of it is familiar -- this is the stuff that we were talking about when I was *at* uni. This was the fascinating New Thing that the Arts students talked about. I hadn't actually registered that it was such a thing, because it is just so much embedded in the way that I think.