It’s absolutely hilarious how tumblr has been taken off the apple store because of the wild shit on here. Yahoo really thought it was stepping into the social media market by obtaining this trash.
it’s funny that tumblr only started caring about banning pedophiles after their money was getting threatened. like they’ve had the means this entire time but literally did not care despite their consumer base complaining about it for literal years
me, long ago, perfectly innocent: hm, i don’t have a lot of followers, but i wanna perform well for them so i’m going to construct a good queue system and post content that they’ll enjoy !!
You know, a big part of purity culture is an inability to cope with your own mistakes, because in your mind, there’s no way to bounce back from serious errors. You can’t just apologize for doing something Problematic™ and then try not to do it again, because then you’re just Bad, so you’ve gotta prove that whatever you did was never bad to begin with. That you’re still Good and therefore did not actually do anything wrong.
So it kind of irks me when I see people acting like ‘purity culture’ is pointing out mistakes or debating about the implications of various actions.
That’s not purity culture, that’s normal culture. Purity culture is getting so overwhelmed at the prospect of ‘being bad’ that you can’t even cope with it and your only recourse is to fight against the implication tooth and nail, as well as the other, more widely understood issue of people refusing to let anyone else grow or change. Because the conceit of purity is that deep down, you’re either virtuous or evil. So there’s no room for forgiveness or for personal growth.
That’s also why you see it cropping up in social circles all over the political spectrum. Because it’s a fallacy that anyone can fall into as long as they have actual morals. It’s based in a belief that morality is a matter of innate nature, not active choices. Regardless of what your values may be.
Media and fan culture can have troubling implications.
What purity culture gets wrong:
Engaging with problematic content can be therapeutic and/or educational.
Good art can be interpreted a number of ways; there is no ‘right’ interpretation. Only the most didactic media has one clear interpretation and media like that is usually insufferably boring.
Good art is never pure, and always has some amount of problematic content.
What’s depicted in media is not equal to what happens in reality (with the exception if real people are being harmed, eg certain kinds of p*rnography).
People can enjoy content while being aware of its problematic aspects. They are not bad people for doing so.
You are not morally superior to anyone else for preferring one character, ship, or piece of media over another.
Attempting to purge problematic content is an authoritarian concept in and of itself. This website should know that, considering how heavily LGBT+ its users are, and that, within living memory, openly LGBT+ content was banned in all mainstream media, because it was deemed socially unacceptable.
Attacking people who are doing nothing to harm you is bullying.
gayfeline 