Watching Internet leftists try to figure out who counts as the oppressor class is always a trip. I literally saw a dude who was describing a period in his life where he had to live in his car for half a year because he couldn’t afford housing get called out as bourgeois scum because he admitted he owned a car.
“Yet you participate in society”
Well, yes. I don’t want to be all “both sides” about it, but it’s not just the neocon shitheads who wield that particular rhetorical bludgeon – the leftier-than-thou crowd also love it, and in two exciting flavours:
1. Everyone who participates in the institutions of society is sellout scum except for the exact specific set of institutions that I myself participate in, which are exempt from this dictum because Reasons; and
2. I refuse to acknowledge that I participate in any social institutions whatsoever and am apparently a disembodied being of pure intellect posting on the Internet from the realm of Platonic forms.
I’d have to see one of the icons, the, and I have approximately 23k people blocked so I’m unlikely to see one.
However, there is a “terf pride flag” nowadays, because this is how we live I guess.
So it might be that. It’s black and dark pink, and in keeping with terfs being uninspired, derivative sacks of shit, it’s otherwise nondescript.
I’m at least 50% sure that they made it just to imitate the new (non lipstick) lesbian flag and confuse people.
But anyway, if you’d like to send me a picture or a link to one of these icons, maybe I can be more help.
@xenoqueer I’m not sure if this what anon is talking about but it seems relevant. I took a screenshot because I wanted to fact check what they were saying
it seems weird to mention their icon not being the nonbinary flag when the actual nb flag is different shades of yellow+purple and has a black stripe at the bottom
yeah after about five minutes of research I’ve decided that those claims are totally bullshit. two flags having similar colors is not proof that anything was “stolen”
next, radfems are going to claim that the colors purple, yellow, and white belong only to a certain group, like the exclusionists that they’re so fond of
Dear lord, radfems get up to some nonsense
Apparently, terfs also like to say that the genderqueer flag is an example of trans people stealing women’s culture, as well.
Fuck, shit. I just realized. This is a literal example of radical feminists idealizing ACTUAL LIBERAL FEMINISM (that is to say, pre-1950s fmeinism).
You know, that thing they constantly claim they hate, while actually hating modern 4th wave feminism?
Also looks like the
Women’s Social and Political Union
flag was made with vertical stripes rather than horizontal.
It’s like saying the Netherlands stole France’s flag. Or Luxenburg is just a stolen Netherlands flag with a different shade of blue.
Also I’m all for learning and international women’s history and all that, but to say this historical flag is being stolen is quite the stretch.
It is not a universal symbol of women or even suffragettes internationally. Hell, it isn’t even a symbol of universal suffrage considering how racist the movement was. Further, when the WSPU dissolved they were reformed as The Women’s Party, which has the purple white and yellow colours.
However, I would guess that the resurgence in the use of these somewhat outdated flags is mostly to dig as genderqueer and nonbinary folks. If they take these flags and “reclaim” them as universal symbols of womanhood, which they were not, then they can say we stole it from women in general.
Even though I did not see the WSPU or TWP colours prominently before they started attacking GQ and NB folks.
But again. The flags aren’t stolen and besides most flags have similarities to other flags somewhere in the world, even countries have almost the same design sometimes.
Like… come on now.
I think, in some ways, this is kind of an end result of that persistent narrative TERFs push that there can only every be One. “Poly” can only ever mean “polynesian” and all the polyamorous and polysexual people who have been using the term for generations are just thieves. “NB” can only ever mean “non-black,” and all the nonbinary people using it are thieves. “Queer” can only ever mean “weirdo” and all the queer peopel who have been using it for generations are trying to destroy the world for all the good and pure gold star cis lesbians.
Given that extreme focus on things only ever having a single meaning, specifically so that marginalized peoples can be treated as criminals for having any fucking culture, I’m nor really surprised to see this happening.
Just disappointed.
Minor note: the term “polyamorous” was first used in 1990 (in Morning Glory Zell’s article “A Bouquet of Lovers”), so it’s a bit of a stretch to call it “generations.”
But words can definitely have different meanings in different communities, and I’d expect to say Poly, with a capital P, if I were using it to refer to Polynesian people, just like I’ve seen Aussie used for Australians.
Queer Nation has been around as long as the term “polyamory,” and the organization wouldn’t have that name if “queer” didn’t have a long history of being used by, well, the queer communities.
…By their logic, we should only use “gay” to mean “happy and cheerful.”
I never expected to have to say, “We’re here; we’re queer; GET USED TO IT!” to people who don’t identify as straight, but, sigh, here we are.
Polyamorous was in common use by 1972. Even if it really had been coined in 1990, adults in 1990 are from the generation previous to adults now, who are ourselves the generation previous to children now, all of whom use the term.
But it’s actually at least 5 generations, rather than 3.
But yeah, things can mean more than one thing. Context is everything.
Not that Radfems believe in contextualization, either. But, you know. For the rest of us. Context is key.
Yeah, I’ve always been baffled by the “say polyam” thing. I mean, if the claim is “I can’t google my own heritage without stuff about other people’s relationship structure popping up” I get why THAT is a problem and a kludgy solution is needed
but the claim i’ve seen just seems to be “use another word because we told you to”
and my brain just stubbornly protests that *that isn’t how language works*
Wait, where do people use ‘Poly’ to refer to Polynesian people? I (living on a pacific island) have never heard that? Everyone uses ‘Nesian instead.
…yeah I do’t think I’ve ever heard you say “Poly” in reference to Polynesian people in… what, 15 years ish that we’ve known each other?
Also the “I can’t google my own heritage without stuff about relationship structures popping up” thing would be… extraordinarily easy to solve by simply googling “polynesian” instead of “poly” – if multiple terms use a common abbreviation that has to be determined by context, the obvious google-fu solution is to type out the whole word when looking specifically for one of those things.
Like, if I want to google Cognitive Behavioral Therapy I’m not just gonna put “CBT” and then get mad when I get results about the Connecticut Bureau of Transportation (among other less tumblr-safe things). If I’m looking for the Bureau of Land Management, I’m not gonna get mad if a search for “BLM” turns up stuff about Black Lives Matter. I’m just gonna refine my search parameters by either typing out the whole thing or adding a qualifier like “CBT therapy” (which would be redundant as a phrase to use in conversation, but is gonna filter those results real nicely as a search string).
Partridge berry (Mitchella repens) is a creeping, evergreen vine whose delicate, trailing stems repeatedly branch and take root in the rich humus to form a beautiful, deep-green carpet of leaves between fallen logs and snaking tree roots and along sandy stream banks. A lover of full to part shade and dry to moist, acidic soil, this earth-hugging perennial produces opposing pairs of small, rounded leaves along the lengths of its slender, somewhat woody stems; the foliage retains a rich, deep green appearance through the worst of the winter season, making it a go-to ground cover for native plant gardeners. In late spring to early summer, the vines erupt in pairs of radiant white, trumpet-shaped flowers, which despite their tiny sizes collectively form one of the loveliest wildflower shows of the Appalachian forest. Bright red berries follow the flowers in the fall and provide a valuable food source for birds throughout the winter. The berries, which persist through the following spring, are edible but with no distinctive flavor. Native American women ate the berries and made an extract from the leaves to prevent miscarriage and premature birth, which resulted in the plant’s other common – and nowadays derogatory – name, squaw vine.
For those familiar with Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey, this is a known process. If not, follow these steps:
1. Install the tampermonkey browser extension via the official site. 2. Click the toolbar button, press Dashboard. 3. From the Dashboard, press the plus sign in the horizontal toolbar. 4. Replace all text in the editor with the code of the script, available here: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/boisei0/2ea7d7145d04a1cc5864d316271d09fd/raw/tumblr_flagging_score_checker.js 5. Click File -> Save. The script should now enable itself. 6. Close the tab with the editor. 7. Open a new tab with the Tumblr dashboard: https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard and wait until the script is fully loaded and the black-with-white box is displayed. 8. Follow the instructions on the screen.
Since this script will now run every time you open the tumblr dashboard, disable it again after usage: With the dashboard open, click the toolbar button for Tampermonkey. Now click the switch to disable the “tumblr score checker 2.0” again. In case of problems, click the tampermonkey button, and ask if there are updates.
Common problems and how to ask for help
Q: You keep getting an error message saying you are rate limited. A: Click the tampermonkey button, click Dashboard, and click the flagging script in the list. Around line 16 you find the following: const debug = false; const debugFlag = -1; Replace false with true, and replace -1 with 3. Save the script, and reload the tumblr dashboard. If you’re on Mac with Chrome, do command+option+J, Windows with Chrome ctrl+shift+J, Mac with Firefox command+shift+J, Windows with Firefox ctrl+shift+J. (Rest I don’t know from mind, look up “developer console YourBrowser” on google to get the shortcut). If you run XKit you’re going to see a lot of spam first, scroll down to the end and take a screnshot of the last couple lines you see. It should be 2 numbers. The first is the total amount of posts, the second the number of requests needed to look at every post listed. Check if the number of posts is indeed correct, and take a screenshot of the output. Send it to me in DM, and I’ll look along with you for a way to fix this.
Q: Your blogs are not getting listed, or twice. A: Refresh the page and try again. If it persists, look at the previous question and change the -1 to 1 instead. Follow the rest of the steps and send me a screenshot in DM. I’ve seen this before, but it appears to only randomly happen and I haven’t managed to solve this yet.
Should I use this?
As for those wondering about “what am I going to run on my tumblr, is it even save?”, if you would like to feel free to check the code, but what it does is get the so called “form key” from the page (tumblr uses it internally to communicate between pages, e.g. xkit uses it too). Next, this form key is used in combination with the part of the server that loads blogs in the sidebar view. The loading code returned by the server has information about whether or not posts are flagged, and a lot of extra information.
Also feel free to spread this script around 🙂
Some screenshots for additional guidance are placed below
I installed this script via Tampermonkey – it works, and boy howdy you can see all the bizarre, totally inoffensive stuff (even by Tumblr’s explicit standards) Tumblr’s bots are singling out from your blog.
there’s something about it that’s just disturbingly real.
like i can come here and spout whatever nonsense i want, and ya’ll will tolerate it.
twitter is like an alien world where i don’t know what’s gonna happen, if fucking ted cruz is gonna respond to me or what.
it’s nerve wracking, it’s too mainstream.
i prefer this bullcrap where no one knows anyone or what’s going on at any given time.
But do u remember that time when a writer came at you here?
that’s true, but unlike twitter, i was only tumblr shamed.
and tumblr shaming doesn’t work on me because tumblr shaming is like if a group of furries came with signs to shame a filthy otaku.
on twitter, it’s like JK Rowling is gonna slap me with some half assed white corporate feminism and have her drones of cult followers come to shit on me for speaking.
or like blake shelton is gonna @ me for making fun of his music, and all of his fans are gonna light the fire under my feet.
it’s way different, being controversial on a mainstream media site.
tumblr’s a cesspit of stupidity, but it’s an obscure and strange cesspit of stupidity.
twitter’s a little too real.
trump and obama can have a rap battle on twitter and make it a part of us history.
tumblr isn’t the same way.
we all die in obscurity on tumblr, and i prefer it.
twitter feels like im in full sight of the snipers and i cant even duck behind a clown car to avoid them
On tumblr you’re in the clown car, hurtling towards a cliff at mach 3 with a few dozen others in the same car.
See, it’s metaphors like these that you can only get on Tumblr, that perfectly describe what it’s like being on Tumblr.
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