Sad to say but some of y’all can’t use the anon feature responsibly so while I’m leaving my inbox on, anon asks are turned off indefinitely. I’m not dealing with another situation like where I was getting accused of being intolerant of a group I’m apart via anon because someone is upset with the way I write.
If someone has a genuine issue with how I write, you feel like I’m being disrespectful to your culture or community, please feel free to message me and we can discuss it respectfully like adults. I said this a couple years ago when a non-Indigenous person said they felt like I was being disrespectful to Indigenous Peoples by using the Raven Mocker (despite my one of ancestral Nations being one of the ones where that’s a big part of our folklore and I have every right to write about my own culture-) ,while I do my best to be respectful, sometimes I know I dip into other people’s cultures. As an Anthropology major and someone who was raised in a multicultural home in a very multicultural community, I appreciate and love learning about other cultures and communities, so if I do something disrespectful, it’s never intentional and I want to be taught.
I also have this mindset and I’m very open about it because if I ever see anything with Sk1nW@lk3rs or W3nd1g0s on my dash, I don’t interact with it. If it’s someone I even kind of know or have interacted with on a regular basis, I’ll explain to them why it’s so incredibly disrespectful. When you’re not raised in a culture, sometimes you just find things outs via media without the cultural context and you like to use it. If you’re a halfway decent person, you’re open to understanding why it’s not appropriate or why it makes people uncomfortable.
All that being said, no one is going to be receptive of what you have to say if you accuse them of being racist, homophonic, transphobic, anti-*insert religion*, etc, in their anons. Especially not if they are literally apart of that group. If you’re interacting with my content, you should be an adult, so act like it. Thank you 🫶
