[engygeron]

i've been visiting blogs. having a look around. and im not impressed

[freakoutgirl]

seeing happy people posting on tumblr like shut up. take your ass to instagram.

[thatbitchsimone]

[thehappysmiler]

Men think they are intellectual for liking cristopher nolan movies

[renthony]

It's wild to watch the phrase "tumblr sexyman" morph into "man that tumblr thinks is sexy," because when I first saw the phrase come into use, I always saw it used in reference to the phenomenon of "when presented with a wide array of fictional characters, tumblr will always pick the skinny white man to obsess over, and if the fan-favorite character has no canonical human appearance, the fandom will inevitably create a popular fanon of the character as as a skinny white man."

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

"Tumblr sexyman" is, like. An insult. I DON'T want any of my blorbos to win a "tumblr sexyman" poll. "Tumblr sexyman" is the exact opposite of what I want my own OCs to be. If any of my characters ever get called "tumblr sexyman," I will have to immediately re-evaluate myself and the art I'm making.

[renthony]

Things I think of when I hear "tumblr sexyman":

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

The way tumblr got obsessed with the white man villain in Sinners.

[orangelit]

it’s always like ”what someone else does to their appearance doesn’t affect you”. but it does though. that’s how social norms work. if everyone does [x] then [x] will be expected of me too. and i selfishly don’t want a lower salary for not wearing makeup, for not dying my hair when it goes grey, for not getting fillers.

[camomileapplesyrup]

people who defend makeup with "makeup good because makeup form of self expression/art", never actually wear the avant-garde, artistic, strange & experimental makeup they talk about. even the "man repellent" makeup is a smokey eye and bold lip. far from being actually beauty standard challenging.

don't get me started on male gaze vs female gaze being basically the same things in different colour palettes...

it's cope, it's total cope. and you're hiding from the fact that society brainwashed you into looking in the mirror and seeing faults you ought to correct instead of seeing yourself.

[creatingblackcharacters]

I couldn't find it earlier, but here it is. Ever relevant and applicable video.

[chillyfeetsteak]

you thought tumblr in the 2010s was bad but last year i joined a community garden and a member in his 60s just emailed blasted all of us a ten page pdf call out post about one of the other member's problematic behavior and rules violations

[orfeudeconceicao]

While it is true that white women were long denied the vote, many still held other forms of power—most notably, the legal right to own other human beings. White women owned slaves and plantations, and after slavery was abolished, they often remained in control of colonial plantations that relied on forced labor. [...]

On the island of La Réunion, one of the most prominent female slave owners, Madame Desbassyns, could not vote, earn a high school diploma, or become a lawyer, doctor, or a professor—but she could legally own people, who were recorded as property in her estate.

As long as the history of women’s rights ignores these forms of racial privilege, it remains incomplete—and fundamentally dishonest.

[...]

Françoise Vergès - A decolonial Feminism - 2019

[nawadi-roman]

Everytime I have to do repetitive work like editing the same tables or excel sheets over and over again, i tell my twin sister that i wish we had a little sister so i can ask her to do this for me. Kids love doing grown up stuff cause it makes them feel smart and they learn new skills while lighting my load of the mind-numbing repetitive work. That’s a win-win situation to me.

[rayasblogggg]

It genuinely pisses me off seeing girls my age obsessing over grown ass pedos and using Lana Del Rey’s music to romanticize getting groomed please wake the fuck up these men don’t love you they’re using you and I can 100% promise you that you will never find the man you’re looking for on the internet DO NOT TALK TO MEN ON THE INTERNET I am telling you if you are under 18 please do not interact with them and report them immediately they will take advantage of you and trust me I used to be like this don’t fall for it

[deadgrl9-xo]

i hate older men

[frizzycurls]

if a man starts talking about some "hiplets" bullshit in front of me I'll knock him tf out

[natalcia1234]

the concept of a 40 year old man running a tumblr blog

[veganfeministfromhell]

the concept of a 40 year old man

[radical-song]

the concept of a man

[never-tell-me-what-to-do]

i just heard someone tell me again how much more they love their male gynecologist. "oh the women were so rough but the men were so nice" Why are you so fucking stupid? Why do you think they decided to work on vaginas when they themselves don't have one? "Because his mother died of cervical cancer so he's passionate about gynecology" stfu. if your dad died of prostate cancer would give prostate exams?

[mareshida]

sick of how normalized misogyny is. every person in the comments was saying that this was inappropriate, that it was sexual, that op was in the wrong. how?? yes, it wasn't the best explanation, but why is female anatomy so taboo that a three year old can't know about a basic process she and every other girl around her will be experiencing??? god