By this point, I probably shouldn’t be surprised. But, I am still not sure how Tumblr managed to fuck up the mobile app even worse. This time by breaking the activity tab in several new and interesting ways.
(I’m also slightly confused, because that just changed for me earlier today. While the update Play Store is dated August 1. I supposedly also still have that update waiting? Even though I see it had somehow helpfully defaulted back to auto-update, which I had turned off before. Turned that off again, because jfc I am already tempted to try sideloading some previous version.)
One of the worse aspects of tumblr discourse is the separation of gayness from innate gender nonconformity
Gay people have a long and weird historical relationship with gender that’s been completely wiped away with identity politics
The assumption that any deviation from cis-ness is trans-ness is separating gay people from a historical relationship that gay culture grew around.
This isn’t to say that us cis lgb people aren’t cis/don’t have cis privilege because that’s not true.
What I’m saying is that the history is more complicated than that and attempting to remove an important aspect of gayness from gay people is dangerous for gay youth especially because our connections to our history are so thin at the tail end of the AIDS crisis.
This is OK to rb
Gender crits fuck off
(i mean this is why it’s so fucking hard to find record of trans people in history, historically sexuality and gender identity were so tightly-bound to heterosexual norms of expression – ie femininity in gay men and masculinity in gay women – that it’s hard to say with any degree of certainty whether someone who claims they were a “man’s soul in a woman’s body” means “trans and straight” or “gay woman trying to explain her attractions in the language of the time”, innit)
Has anyone heard about calculated misery? basically, it’s a term coined by law school professor tim wu to describe the concept that “there’s money to be made by making an experience so awful that a customer will want to avoid it”. airlines have realized that a bad flying experience won’t really dissuade customers from flying with them again, and that it’s cheaper and more profitable to give their passengers the bare minimum and have them pay extra for comfort. [here’s an article on it: “calculated misery”: how airlines profit from your miserable flying experience]
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