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onceuponaslayer:

I wish people understood that the vast majority of ‘bloggers’ on Tumblr have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about. Most of the discourse on this hellsite is just well-intentioned people parroting what they’ve read in popular text posts written by ignorant, narcissistic people who use their extremely limited, flawed, and often warped knowledge to elevate their social status. And since we’ve somehow decided that follower counts & the amount of notes on posts are reliable indicators of what is true/right/progressive, and since this whole website works like a goddamn cult where any semblance of disagreement with the currently accepted dogma is enough to get death threats, it just creates a vicious cycle where people’s ignorance and fear of being ostracised feeds other people’s ignorance and fear.

The entirety of mainstream Tumblr “feminism” & “activism” is based on virtue signaling, peer pressure, black-and-white thinking, misusing concepts, diluting theory, twisting scientific research, and spreading misinformation, lies and half-truths. People constantly use terms they simply don’t understand–terms whose meanings have been diluted and twisted so much that hardly no one knows where they come from, why they were created or what they actually mean.

Having a lot of followers doesn’t make a person smart or knowledgeable. Something isn’t true or right or progressive just because a lot of people say it is, because everyone seems to believe it, or because it’s written in a snarky tone. Please stop using Tumblr as your main source of information on feminism or other social justice issues (or anything, really). Stop giving so much power to random people on the Internet. Learn to think for yourself even if it’s uncomfortable. Don’t be afraid to analyse and question everything you read or hear. And please check sources instead of

believing everything you read.

I think that Tumblr can be a great introduction for young teens getting familiar with social justice, but after that and especially as you move into adulthood it’s important to educate yourself outside of Tumblr beyond just popular text posts with actual academic texts on the issues. Getting all of your activism from popular texts posts on Tumblr can cause serious misinformation to be spread and stifle critical thinking.