25 things Tumblr has taught me
1. It’s okay to discriminate against entire groups of people, as long as it’s not your own.
2. Malnourished kids in North Korea technically have thin privilege. Yep, they sure are privileged.
3. Thin privilege is a real thing, apparently.
4. Your doctor has no idea what they’re talking about in regards to how your weight affects your health. It’s not like they spent years at medical school learning about that or anything.
5. Do you hear voices in your head? Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with you! They’re just headmates!
6. If someone calls you out for self-diagnosing a mental illness, the best thing to do is to accuse them of ableism.
7. Women can do no wrong, and all men are primitive, testosterone-fueled rape machines. No exceptions.
9. Enjoying things from another culture is EVIL! Especially if you’re white!
10. White people are spawns of satan, and racism is perfectly fine as long it’s against them.
11. If you’re white, nothing bad can happen to you.
12. If it has 1,000+ notes, it MUST be accurate!
13. If you’re half black, half white, you don’t qualify as a black person.
14. It’s wrong to follow women around a mall and take pictures of her butt, but it’s fine if you do it to a guy!
15. Female infant circumcision is evil, but infant male circumcision is fine.
16. You’re not allowed to form opinions about things that you’re not a part of.
17. Are you gay? Straight people are your enemy. Are you transgender? Cisgender people are your enemy. Are you black? White people are your enemy.
18. If you’re not transgender, there’s something wrong with you.
19. It’s best to just appeal to emotion and make false analogies than to present actual facts or statistics, since people usually only hear what they want to hear.
20. Everything filed under the feminism tag is exempt from criticism.
21. Making up bullshit stories about your life is not only welcomed, but encouraged. Since none of your arguments have any basis in reality, it’s practically necessary.
22. It’s best to judge someone by their gender, race, and sexuality rather than their character.
23. It’s never okay to judge someone by their appearance, unless the person is a fedora-wearing, neck beard-sporting male.
24. It’s okay to use logical fallacies in your favor.
25. Feminism is the only equalist movement. Yup, they own a monopoly on equality. Egalitarianism? Secular Humanism? No, no, those aren’t real things! Those movements were started by the patriarchal fedoras to keep you poor little tumblrinas down!