ok so it turns out I was having a crazy manic episode and I just needed to take my antipsychotics and chill the fuck out. Even I'm not sure what I was trying to say, as it can be hard to decipher my own ramblings when I go back to "normal" again, but based on what I know about the movement versus what I was trying to string together, I think what my point was supposed to look like this:
"What happened to hashtag free the nip?"
People stopped posting about the hashtag free the nip because of who was using the hashtag, and how they were using it.
How it started: women in media creation wanted to combat censorship of female bodies. It was about how men can be topless in movies and women can't.
What happened next, from the perspective of someone who was like 12 at the time: it went from being about censorship to being about perversion pretty fast. Some men were encouraging the hashtag for gross reasons, and it made a lot of women reconsider their allegiance to the movement.
Then, some women got into the movement because they were like "yeah I should be allowed to be shirtless around young people" because people often forget that women can also be pedos. Which, again, made some people question their allegiance to the movement.
The third thing that followed was the inevitable "who even qualifies as a woman anyway" debate which basically stopped the movement dead in its tracks and everyone got bored and moved on.
I was in middle school when #freethenip occurred and it developed long into my time in Highschool, and I remember being on tumblr during that era and seeing all of this go down. I remember the kind of people who originally associated with it (activists) which then turned into the second-wave of creeps hopping on board which then in turn made the women who were not activists (but who wanted to encourage the sentiment) question themselves and their modesty and so on and so forth. After a while, the "bad" voices began to drown out the "good" voices and movement became associated with "bad" people.
I remember when it was at first about women's rights but then turned into "we should have hardcore porn on regular television it's my right as an American" which like, no, no it's not. There is a difference betwee Pornography and a regular human body, but some people have a hard time telling the difference. Which is gross.
but my weird psychotic state, I think what I was getting at was "people are gross which is why the movement no longer exists because pervs on the internet" and I just, like, missed the mark by a mile on how I conveyed it.
I am so sorry for the confusion and the discomfort I caused in my weird state, I really need to have my online time regulated when I'm "crazy" so to speak. I wish I could have like a magic button that appears when I'm manic that says "do you really want to post that right now? Or should you wait this one out a bit, buddy?"
