discourse posts making fun of ace kids for saying some cringey stuff are honestly so gross. like, when i first realized i was asexual, i was all about those silly memes about how i would rather eat cake than have sex. up until that point, society had made it very clear that sex was the best thing that could ever happen and that i should be always concerning myself with how to have it. which, of course, wasn’t something that i wanted.
and then for the first time, people were telling me that, no, i didn’t have to make sex my top priority. i could make mac n cheese and shitty horror movies and cake my top priority. and that was a Big Deal to lil asexual me. yeah, some of the stuff i said was pretty iffy and maybe even a little problematic, but damn! i was just a teenager expressing their newfound identity and trying to be proud of something that all of mainstream media was telling me i should never, ever be proud of.
so, you know, maybe cut those kids who are always going on about how cool it is to be ace little bit of slack?
People are allowed to be proud of their orientations and it doesn’t have to cater to you, ffs people
my favorite era in history is the one where people discovered you could make cartoons out of typography and newspapers would run articles that were just like “today dennis the intern figured out how to draw a dog with the typewriter so here it is”
I’m also just remembering again before I moved, when a friend of the family felt a need to have a talk with my mother. She’d grown up in NYC, and ended up at I think it was University College London for some postgraduate work in the ‘80s.
And she ran into enough mostly casual antisemitism and xenophobia–including some dog whistle references to Zionism in lectures–that it helped her not stay any longer than she needed to.
And also feeling a need to warn non-WASPy people who were not Jewish, 20 years later, because of how closely the social acceptability of that and more general xenophobia tend to run together. And some of what she and friends had personally encountered. She didn’t figure that things could have changed so significantly in that time, and she was honestly concerned about my possibly going into some not so great situations unaware. The change had been enough of a shock to her.
“Lack of Holocaust knowledge is particularly striking among young people in France: One out of five people there between the ages of 18 and 34 said they’d never heard of it.” ummmm what the actual fuck???????????
The overestimates came even as majorities or near-majorities in every country CNN polled said they were not aware of ever having met a Jewish person. Two-thirds of Germans, Austrians and Poles said they didn’t think they had ever socialized with a Jew, while about half of people in Britain, France, Hungary and Austria said the same.
Yall can be edgy and talk about how much you hate tumblr all you want but I will be real chief I value my undeserved clout on here and its also the only place that shoots all my niche interests directly into my brain at the speed of light
The idea behind Tumblr, namely the dashboard, how posts and reblogs work (kinda like mini-threads that stream endlessly onto your dash), and the tagging system, is actually superb and I have yet to find another social media site on par with this format. Hence why we all stay here.
But then there’s also the incompetent staff and the extreme cultural madness of the website, hence why we hate it despite staying.
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