#purity discourse

[chamerionwrites]

Much has been said already about the hold-the-kink kinktober rules, but I would like to note that by the letter of the law they also ban depictions of 100% vanilla sex between respectful and loving partners in which one party says "hold the phone, I'm not feeling this right now."

[cambriancrew]

If I've learned anything from being on the internet for 25+ years, it's that online communities built around loving something are always healthier than communities built around hating something. Haters always turn on their own eventually.

[mywitchcultblr]

Tumblr should be sustainable enough but not massively popular like Twitter. Because once a social reach a certain height, it'll turn into an advertising censorship hellscape and you can't bully shitty bigoted politician/ celebrities who are causing real harm anymore.

A lot of people on Twitter can say the most homophobic or misogynistic shit and Twitter will let it slide but god forbid you tell them to choke on a rock

The real bigots and harmful people are not banned but you can get banned

Next you can't curse or type the word die kill fuck or any profanities. The infantilization of public space is never been to protect children or to reduce hate speech ( ok sure they might try to reduce hate speech but the execution is often bad ) it's to keep the platform clean for advertisement and corporation. The fact that YouTube censoring words like die, depression, kill and sexual assault is ridiculous!

I watched a video about sexual assault case and the youtuber has to bleep a lot of words the video was unwatchable

Tumblr actually censored many tags to adhere to apple and it's very insulting because tags like depression or anything that got to do with mental illness are censored

Tumblr banned nsfw also was so bad and insulting to adults users, it's because there were cp in the platfrom but instead of creating reliable solution without nuking all nsfw, the higher up just banned all nsfw

Seriously if Tumblr wants to grow they have to stop with the censorship of certain words in the tags, fix the glitchy website also unban nsfw

At the same time, I don't want Tumblr to get too big but i don't want it to die either.

Tldr: capitalism + moral purity sucks and they ruining social media and human interaction

[just-another-dead-account]

probably the best way to show that you don’t actually care about protecting children

[whentheynameyoujoy]

The purity discourse in ASOIAF just sends me, on every single level, not just the fact there even is one but that so many people go “yeah, Martin does portray lots of unsavoury fucked-up stuff but that’s just his way of telling you it’s bad! You’re not supposed to take it on face value, there’s obviously hidden criticism!”

Ma’am, this is a man who to this day refuses to acknowledge he wrote the Drogo/Dany wedding night as rape, is gearing up for an incestuous ship to be THE transformative romance of the series, decided to lob his all-time favourite beauty & beast trope on an eleven-year-old, wrote his most vanilla relationship between a wife originally meant to marry the husband‘s brother, and whose principal textual objection to Cersei/Jaime seems to be “well, they’re extremely toxic for each other” not, y’know, that they’re brother and sister.

All I’m saying is that considering GRRM’s track record, what you and he view as foreshadowing that Thing Bad ™ seems to exist in completely separate universes.

[disney-rapunzel-merida-vanellope]

You know what I hate more than problematic ships?

People who act like shippers of said ships are inherently problematic for shipping them

I don’t like loki x sylvie but I hate more people who act like it’s a literal crime and morally wrong for others to ship it

You should 100% talk to a doctor if you think what people like in fiction means they also like it in real life, seriously

But of all the problematic ships, y’all really went after selfcest???? Really???? That shit can’t even happen in real life!

Marvetes, Peter quill had sex with aliens with tentacles!!!!

But y’all draw the line at self love????????? Loki fucked ANIMALS but he can’t love himself????? A version of himself with such different history and appearance that it’s a completely new person!! CMON

I honestly just hate this whole purity movement. It’s just an excuse to shame and bully others and act as a superior moral high ground

This is coming from the person whose first ever muted word on this site was "elsanna". I hate it. I muted it. And if you ship it good for you and I know you don’t wanna date your sibling cause of it.

[iamthespineofmybook]

Purity Has Never Been Good

So, as of late, I've been listening to a lot of history in the form of Blue from Overly Sarcastic Productions and I, and hopefully many others, have noticed that the most prosperous societies tended to be the ones that accepted everyone equally regardless of how they were different from the natives, and that these societies fell apart once someone came to power with the idea that they should undo all that and make their nation only for the people they deemed as their people.

Egypt, Persia, Rome, the Ottomans... These are some of them over the past several thousand years.

Basically, purity marks the beginning of the downfall of empires. And it's not just in societies. Alloys tend to be much stronger and more useful than pure metals (though not always, because slag could ruin your iron pretty handily).

Being dogmatically monomaniacal, or, to use smaller words, being crazy about purity, has historically proven to cause a lot of damage.

Something I think I read somewhere, but can't find so I might have made it up, is "as soon as it becomes us versus them, everybody loses."

I think there was also one about how a people referred to themselves as "The People" and when they encountered another culture they called them "The Other," but things would have gone much better they instead called them "Also The People."

So, basically, everyone being different is much more advantageous to humanity than everyone being the same.

Intolerance is destructive, so destroy intolerance first.

[dancinbutterfly]

YALLLLL #AbolishMCUTiktok is trending cuz the woobies are mad people are sexualizing Spidey getting hit by a train and Bucky getting tortured

SO NO ONE TELL THE ABOUT THE HYDRA TRASH PARTY, OKAY? NO ONE MENTION IT TO THEM. NO ONE GO ON TIKTOK AND IN GRAPHIC DETAIL DESCRIBE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY THAT GREW AROUND DISCUSSING HYDRA TORTURE PORN OKAY?

*dies laughing in internet old*

I'm sorry. It's actually a bad thing. Because one day, these kids are going to ban themselves into oblivion and they're going to fucking regret this but as someone who has basically delegated themselves into a blackmarket corner of the internet already? It's funny to watch people learn these lessons the hard way.