![]() ![]() The reality of the ban is something a bit more alarming, something everyone both inside and outside the sex worker community should be concerned about: It is sweeping censorship on a site used by queer people everywhere and is part of a censorship trend that is disproportionately erasing queer people.ĭon't lose hope - there are other digital sanctuaries. Tumblr's ban is more than a crackdown on sex work - indeed, the stated reason for it has little to do with FOSTA/SESTA, at least on the surface (child pornography has been found on the site more than once). The unsettling phrase "sex panic" rings truer and truer. Many queer sex workers - myself included - view the ban as the latest bullet point in a disturbing string of events that include the passing of FOSTA/SESTA and the federal seizure and shutdown of, a site popularly used by sex workers to find clients. Tumblr was more than the best porn on the internet - it was a place where many of us discovered ourselves, discovered our interests, and found others. Overnight, there was one less place where queer men, and queer people, can be kinky, explorative, and curious. Unless you were living under a rock, you heard the news: Tumblr recently banned all NSFW content. Q: everyone who's calling it a fourth person pronoun is joking, so you shouldn't take this so seriouslyĪ: if they're joking in a way that's literally indistinguishable from spreading Real linguistic misinformation the result is the same either way.12 Post-Tumblr Spaces for Sex-Positive Queer Men however, this doesn't mean that "chat" and "y'all" are synonyms, that's just a pronoun doing what pronouns do. "y'all" is second person plural, so if the context "chat" is being used in is that you're talking to a group of people (real or hypothetical) that you're calling "chat", it can be replaced with "y'all". ![]() any noun can be "a vocative" in the same way any noun can be an object.Ī: so close! "y'all" is a pronoun which, being a pronoun, can take the place of a noun in a certain context. however, if you did hypothetically use "chat" as a neopronoun, it would be third person, and this isn't even remotely similar to the use case being described as a "fourth person pronoun" by the post I'm talking about.Ī: that's a case, not a part of speech. are you saying I can't do that?Ī: no, obviously you can do whatever you want. Q: well maybe I do use "chat" as a pronoun. if people were actually using "chat" as a pronoun I wouldn't have a problem with someone describing it as a pronoun, because it would be a pronoun. Q: are you trying to police how people use words?Ī: no, I'm describing the ways words are used. Q: language is fluid, so if enough people use "chat" as a pronoun wouldn't that mean it is a pronoun?Ī: yes, but people don't use it as a pronoun so it isn't one. most unpleasant people aren’t inherently rotten, they’re just unhappy & coping with it poorlyĪssume people are always doing their best, even if their best happens to fall a bit short. she’s not my favorite patron, but she’s perfectly okay. Now we’re at the point where she shows me pictures of watercolor paintings she made & says hi when she walks in the door. she changed her hair color one day & when i complimented her on it, she was very caught off guard & said “oh, thank you. i made a point to be extra kind & friendly to her. what a difficult way to live.”Īnd so my tactics changed. I couldn’t stand her & dreaded the moment she walked in the door, until i stopped one day & went “wow, to walk around feeling unhappy enough to treat people so horribly every day. won’t respond when you greet her, barks orders at you, and is generally nasty Sorry!īefore anyone jumps in with an “op has clearly never worked in the service industry,” i work in a public facing library job I will almost never tag caps or coloured text, and I do quite like to use them. If there’s something you want me to tag you can ask. How good am I at tagging trigger warnings? Well, I think I do fairly well at tagging blood and stuff that is nsfw (if it’s just vaguely nsfw I might not tag it though). My Analysis of The Hitting on 16 poem + a C!Wilbur Headcanon Hitting on 16 Google Drive With the Original Title (PDF, EPUB & Docx) My mcytblr Cursed Posts Masterpost (it will be updated occasionally) How to search posts on Tumblr! (We all know Tumblr’s search function is not great).Here is the list of websites where you can find tools and courses to help you learn stuff for free, I highly recommend you check it out. ![]()
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