Hey guys, I’m sure you’ve heard of the news about pornographic blogs on tumblr. Now’s the time to save all my pics if you want them. If I feel like making a Twitter, which is unlikely, I’ll post it here.
Girls, in the U.S., are honored, for the most part, as very fine and appealing in aesthetic. It’s human to value the soft, the youthful, and the shapely. While this can lead to objectifying, and other problematic things, sex seems very intimate with what it is to be human, and should be celebrated.
It’s likely easier for hetero-normative people to celebrate and be celebrated sexually, but people like me belong to a much smaller niche. While carnal pleasures are easily and most often base, feeling loved for your body is something intimately human, and while it alone does not lead to a good life, it seems a potentially valuable constituent to it, especially for a romantic, insecure, transgender college student.
It’s unlikely you followed this tumblr for my feelings, but I thank you guys and tumblr for giving me the opportunity to feel valued for my body, of which I am plagued with some stupid, unreasonable insecurity. While hetero-normative girls don’t exactly have it easy, and while it’s noble to live independent of the opinions of the many, it’s undeniably hard feeling like only a small percentage of people and peers you interact with daily have the capacity to value your body in the way you want to feel valued: a way in which its aesthetic spurs some sort of innate appreciation that hints at something higher and more fine, like love, a magic sword which fights to justify human suffering.
Specifically, thanks to my love, Bradford, and Garrett, my friends, for giving me strength to look in a mirror.
This isn’t a self-righteous appeal to tumblr, who make a change likely for business rather than ideological reasons. Nor do I mean to virtue signal, unless you count sex appeal as a virtue, in which case I guess my entire blog is an attempt at virtue signalling - I just felt weird writing the first paragraph and nothing more.