“tumblr’s the only social media without algorithms!” “you can still be anonymous on tumblr!” “tumblr’s so nice because you don’t have to show your face!” WRONG tumblr is special because you can have 3000 followers and still get an average of seven likes a post. i’m doing stand up comedy at a packed venue and one person is laughing
I recently saw an actual news article censor the words “sexual” and “molest.” Fucking shit hell fuck shit fuck.
ooooh, storytime!
for a while, my husband worked as a call handler for the ambulance service. during his training, they had a talk from someone wanting to introduce new policy and he wanted to use my husband’s group as a tester group. fun, right?
well, the talk was about how saying suicide was triggering. if a caller says theyre suicidal, the handlers should say “unalive” instead, because saying the word might actually trigger the suicidal person.
if the caller says they were raped and need help, the handler should say “S A” instead, because rape is triggering.
I don’t know about you, but if I phoned up the ambulance service to ask for help because I want to die, I wouldn’t want them using tiktok speak and trivialising the issue. I think that would make me less likely to ever ask for help. SAY THE WORDS. how are we supposed to address the problem if we can’t even name the fucking problem.
luckily, my husbands main instructor literally said “well, that’s fucking stupid” to the man wanting to introduce this policy and it hasn’t been implemented. but it might. we are watching language be erased. NAME. THE. PROBLEM.
I wish I were making this up, I wish I could say I was exaggerating. I’m not.
So fun fact, people who are trained in helping to deescalate suicidal people will always say to put it bluntly.
“Do you want to kill yourself?”
A, it has the benefit of making sure everyone is on the same page. Self-harm and attempting suicide are two different things. You can want to harm yourself without wanting to kill yourself. It can also let you know if the person is passively suicidal or if they’re in the process of killing themselves.
B, stigmatizing suicide leads to more suicides.
C, you will not cause someone to kill themselves by saying the word suicide. It is not a magic word that speaking the name of will cause someone to jump off a roof.
Also, speaking to causation on this trend (separate from issues of censorship), lay people need to learn what “triggering” actually means.
Because way too many people do not understand the difference between “This word is an activating reminder for something traumatic in my brain and it has a rapid and deeply negative impact on my mental health which may result in dissociation, flashbacks, spiraling, panic attacks, or similarly serious reactions” and “ewww that word makes me UNCOMFYYYYY.”
Time to overshare about self-harm and abuse again!
Okay tumblr. I am sitting down with you and holding both your hands in mine because this is serious. Are you in a frame of mind to talk about something serious? Okay cool
I need you all to super duper pinkie promise me that we’re all going to slow down, read posts thoroughly, and before we hit send on a reblog, ask ourselves these questions:
Is the point I’m making already addressed in the original post?
Do I agree with this post, or am I actually saying the exact opposite thing in tones of agreement?
Is this post a personal attack on me, or am I putting words in OP’s mouth? Is the thing I feel hurt by actually stated in the post at any point?
Because fucking frankly the reading comprehension situation on here has been even more dire than usual lately and I feel like we’ve forgotten that “this is the piss on the poor website” was an indictment, not an aspiration
I love you ace smut creators. I love you sex-positive repulsed aces. I love you slutty ace artists. I love you ace sex workers. I love you ace doms. I love you ace subs. I love you ace autistic/disabled/trans people fistfighting stereotypes with your life. I love you demis, greys, aegos and frays. I love you aroaces. I love you alloaces. I love you-
beautiful fanfic authors please learn to space the dialogue correctly. new dialogue from a different character means a new line. beautiful authors please
Idgaf about the white house but it is indeed pretty funny to destroy half of it for a ballroom of all things. For what purpose? Because the idea sounds cool? The leaders of usa dont even respect their own empire. Its satisfying, I like seeing them cry and destroy themselves.
They are literally finishing 9/11. That shit they did all that “never forget” for. Just to finish the job and destroy it themselves. Its marvelous! Keep going!
