madeofpatterns:

funereal-disease:

discouroborose:

i always find it really unsettling when people list all the privileges and oppressions they experience in their sidebar or their about. like i understand if its an identity you’re proud of or blog about a lot, i get being like “muslim, lesbian, black” or w/e, but some people just like…rattle off their position in every single SJ approved scale or binary with no prompting. 

so they’ve got this list of details about their life, with no context, serving no purpose other than to identify where they lie on the privilege/oppression scale, on a page that is ostensibly about them talking about themselves as a person, and i’m like…i do not need to know this about you? if i’m following you for cracky star wars headcanons, i don’t need to know the exact conditions under which you experience white privilege, and i don’t know why anyone else would either. 

like i’m not saying those things should be a secret or that people shouldn’t talk about them at all, but it’s weird to see so many people making that very specific information about themselves readily available as a matter of course. 

It’s not that these things should be a secret – it’s that a tumblr bio is an summary of the things you think are most important about yourself. I don’t think my demographic details are the most important thing about me, and I’m put off by people who suggest that they should be. They don’t actually te you anything about *who I am as a person*! They contextualize​ my experiences, but they don’t create them.

One of my favorite things about how the internet used to work is that I could keep my gender private.