This is going to be a long post because there is that much stupidity that must be discussed.
I've heard about Tumblr for a while now. Going through high school I would hear whispers down the halls of this mysterious site called Tumblr. It was like Fight Club, 'First rule of Tumblr, don't talk about Tumblr'. Wow a community that doesn't want any new members, sounds fantastic. 2spooky4me
Anyway. So recently it's come to my attention again. Apparently there is a war between 4chaners and Tumbleheads and I wondered why. 4chan doesn't have a good reputation in the first place, what could the people of Tumblr possibly be doing that's twisted 4chan's briefs? . So I went through the posts and learned a few things. These things astonished and disturbed me.
So first of all, there are apparently these people who believe they are something other than a human. They refer to themselves as 'kin'. Examples would be dragonkin, catkin, squirrelkin, or my personal favourite, planetkin. Now, I really don't want to judge you, I mean it's your life...but I'm going to anyway. It's just....Really? Then when they open up to their family and the response is not what they wanted, they seem confused to why that would be... Maybe because your parents want to lasso your feet and pull your head of the clouds. But I don't think this a Tumblr problem....no that's not Tumblr at all, that's something on a totally different level.. No... I should be open minded... Be whatever you want...
But it gets worse. You all know what i'm going to talk about. Yep, the PTSD trigger happy fuckers. You know what? Some may really have PTSD and I respect that they want to find a community that understand them, that they can share their experiences with. There is actually a page called 'DefyingPTSD' that has a lot of inspirational stuff on it. It had all that annoying trigger bs things in it but at least the guy/girl/dragon/sheep or whatever they define themselves as were actually doing something about their problem. But you know what the sad part is? I think the majority of these people claiming to have PTSD like the romanticism around it, they want to belong to a community and they chose this one for some fucked up reason in their heads( cough) for attention (cough).
You know that squirrel chick? You know why she has PTSD? Because when she was a child she saw a man strangling a chicken and it died...oh wait, it was just a dream. You know what? I had a dream that a whole bunch of fucking demon dogs were chasing me.. I hide in a room, I looked up into a vent and there was a chihuahua barking and snarling at me(It was like the grudge but hairy). It was horrifying, and that's not even the worst dream I have had. I don't have PTSD over it, and I love dogs.
But what is the most annoying about these PTSD people is that they blame other people for triggering their PTSD. ' Oh my mum did this, it triggered me'. ' Oh these stranger said this, how dare they do that, they should know that it could trigger someone. They should be more sensitive to my feelings'. What? Don't blame other people for your problems. If everyone got upset at all the things people have said to them, then human civilization would not exist. Cave men would be in the corner cuddling a rock crying over the fact that this other man told him he had a small dick and his woman left him because the other man has a bigger cave and more stones than him. Oh and the things that trigger them! 'Deforestation'...insert social justice/environmentalist/feminist/musician/anythingthatgoesagainsttheirpointofview into the list. It's called being annoyed, that's not a trigger. It's like they can have their own opinion but if someone doesn't have the same opinion they can shut them up by saying it triggers them. Boo fucking hoo. What? You hate kittens? kitten haters trigger me! Waaah! Ugh.
I just want to point out that I am a woman ( hence the rambling) and I see myself more as an Egalitarian. Not a feminist. That means that I want women to be able to fart just as much as men, not dominate men in farts. You know what I mean? That's another problem with Tumblr. It's filled with feminists who fear men will fart all over them just by existing. If a woman farts, flowers will grow from the all nutrients it provides. But if a man so much as farts once, all the trees in the forest will die.
Oh and this whole cis thing. When I first saw it I was like...What the fuck is that? Apparently a cis is a normal person, and should be hated by all non-cis. Okay, I can understand why they they might hate cis people, since cis people hate them because they are nuts. People don't like to be told they are nuts. I'm pretty sure the squirrel chick is nuts... kek...I don't like the fact that these people..or creatures...or planets can sit there and label themselves and then say ' society can't label me' then go ahead and label me. Can I call hypocrisy on this? You can sit there and call people cis, but what right do you have when we have to respect the fact that you are a female dressed as a male but looks like a female but wants to be referred to by the male pronoun. Maybe I don't want to be referred to as cis? What if I am triggered by being called cis? I am offended at your assumption that I am a cis because I participate in this fluid pronoun thingy you got going.
I think I could sit here ranting all night about the community of Tumblr. I just hope that my post will educate some people.
I'm just trying to say that the world doesn't revolve around you. I respect that people have gone through some terrible events in their lives. I'm not saying people should go around teasing you about those things. But some of the triggers that I have seen are just utter ridiculous. People aren't going to censor themselves for you, there are going to be arseholes out there in the real world. You need to learn that they are there and they are attracted to the internet. If you want to wrap yourself in bubble wrap, your never going to heal. You need to get out there and face reality.