#spamgate

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So, all that "report wincesters for child porn and get them arrested!!!" was a spectacular success.

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"lmao all we did was post cute puppies reminding u that ur trash and sweet facts about what scum u are and our adorable selfies because let's face it we're much prettier and better than gross disgusting incest tbh"

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Honestly, I'm glad she saw it. Good.

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Funny how you say that real people are more important than fiction when you brush off someone's suicide attempt by saying that they were "fine two hours later" Honestly I doubt you'd want someone to lose their life just because they were triggered by something you said so maybe if you just stop tagging people in things that they have EXPLICITLY SAID triggers them this situation could be avoided and your friend is a person too but no one deserves to get hurt over this shit so just stop please

Uh huh.

Look. I’m not going to argue whether or not your friend (who was joking about sex with her ‘hot sexy dads’ two hours later, yet is so so triggered by incest’) actually tried to commit suicide. I’m not. But she defamed the character of a young girl who did nothing wrong. That’s on her conscience.You want it all to go away and bury itself. Guess what. That’s not going to happen for Helen. She has done nothing wrong, and if your friend’s post ever circles back and causes her little brother to be taken away from her and thrown into a group home, that’s on her conscience, too.

Frankly, I don’t give a shit anymore. You have the luxury of pretending this will all go away. Bully for you. Thanks to your friend, Helen does not. The very least she could do is apologize.

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Alright, motherfuckers, listen carefully:

You say you were affected by incest. I believe you.

It is not my place to speak over you.

You may be bothered by seeing Wincest posts.

You may even be bothered knowing it is something people enjoy writing about.

What you are not, is bothered by the very existence of Wincest.

It is not harassing you.

It is not sending you hate.

It is not magically appearing in your life where you can’t escape from it.

No, really, it’s not.

You have the power to avoid seeing it. Block blogs that post it regularly, don’t follow those people, blacklist it if it comes across your dash.

The only thing you can rightfully ask anybody to do is tag their shit.

Literally. That’s it. That is all they owe you, to tag their shit.

Wincest exists. Deal with it.

It’s existence is only harmful to you if you choose to go looking for it, knowing it will upset you.

That seems like a pretty fucking stupid thing to do (if you even think of throwing the word ‘ableism’ at me I swear to god).

People like things you don’t.

People are going to engage in things you don’t understand.

This is not news.

One of the most bizarre human practices I’ve ever seen, one that absolutely, positively freaks me out, is the art of bodily suspension. For pleasure.

It is actually a thing that exists. And it grosses me out. It makes me want to vomit: (warning: graphic image behind the link).

That does not make it a trigger. Please stop misusing the word trigger. If your trigger does not send you into flashbacks from a previous trauma, cause physical convulsions, or cause an actual, literal panic attack, it is not a trigger, it is just a thing that grosses you out. Period.

I don’t judge people who choose to engage in it.

I don’t understand bodily suspension, I don’t understand why people choose to mutilate themselves, but I don’t fucking go looking for them to tell them how gross they are and how much it squicks me out.

Because I am a decent human being and I understand that I don’t have to like or engage in a thing, in order for it to exist.

Wincest, and incest ships, aren’t going anywhere.

You could stop every shipper from posting on Tumblr and they would still ship. They would find another platform. You won’t have done anything but bully people out of a place that they once considered safe.

Oh, and potentially destroy years and years of therapy and trigger other people into relapsing by using the same words their own abusers used.

Are you proud of yourselves? Because I don’t know how I would sleep at night.

Now get lost, I have smut to read.

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Starting to actually think “Read the FAQ” is secret code for “I can say whatever the fuck I want and act like a complete ass as long as my FAQ says ‘- Is not a complete ass.’”

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I fully believe that the reason spammers insist on villainizing us, claiming we are sending anon hate, harassing minors, sending selfies to porn blogs and terrorising people into self-harm and suicide attempts, is that if they had to admit to the possibility that we might not be doing that at all, then they would no longer be able to justify their own cruelty.

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I love that you tagged the stuff about the spammers vs shippers as "spamgate". That just made my night.

I can't take credit, I got the idea from hategate '14. All the same, it does the job. ;)