On Tumblr culture Several years ago (2-3) I got casually interested in feminism, partially because of all the hate it was getting as some people described it as some force of evil or something and quickly found Tumblr. I don't live in the USA and I've never been fat, and Tumblr was quite new for me, and thus began my journey into Tumblr culture! Before you assume anything: I read Tumblr because I was mystified and didn't quite 'get' the whole thing. During the quite long time reading it, I didn't feel very sympathetic to it at all, it was more like I found a casually weird group of people that I just observed. I'm a feminist in the sense that I believe women and men are equal and deserve equal and fair treatment and bodily autonomy, which is why I oppose the whole RoK/Red Pill/PUA/whatever thing. Now that that's out of the way: Tumblr culture didn't quite involve me. Many people were being all butthurt about things I didn't care about in the slightest, or could make me think 'yeah, that's rude' and leave it at that... on Tumblr, you'd find over the top rants about how horrible it all was, how threatening/rapey, how oppressive, etc... I'm actually sad that this stereotype is true. Tumblr culture was weird. You know the whole selfie spam that /u/Achtung_Shitlord tortures us with with his albums?  It's encouraged with this idea that it's ''liberating'' to post a shit ton of selfies online because there's nothing wrong with demanding attention, there's no point at which it becomes narcissistic, it's just a way to show the misogynistic ''haters'' that you don't want to hide yourself. Or something. I couldn't help but think just how petty and downright bizarre that is. If one of the things you rage about, is how many selfies you should post online, I think that makes you an incredibly spoiled, first world, whine-child.  It makes me think: you've probably never felt actual (emotional) pain or suffering, you can't put anything in perspective, you're so incredibly self-absorbed and spoiled rotten that you want every little thing catered to you under the guise of liberation which is an actual thing. But are you allowed to criticise this self pity and self-importance? NO! Because that'd be ''invalidating'' their ''struggles''.  Another thing that flew right over my head was their abuse of mental illnesses and neurological conditions. We all know about the hams who claim to have anorexia: I saw them too. But not just anorexia! Almost every single one of the Tumblrinas I saw had some psychiatric issue such as Bipolar Disorder, some form of autism (usually Asperger's), depression, PTSD, you name it. This actually made me pissed. People who legitimately suffer from it (I've seen severe BPD in my ex; downright brutal) are discounted enough and this makes it all ten times WORSE. They wanted to be special and like some troubled poet, but yet again, they ended up being the worse whine-child want-it-all narcissist. Theatrical, melodramatic. There's nothing romantic about being drugged to zombie status because otherwise your psychosis takes over and does brain damage. (I'm so glad I don't suffer from this...) And rape? Well, they've all been raped. I hate this because there're actual rape victims who're NOT believed and treated like shit and I hate that. While some of the Tumblrinas have been raped (no avoiding that), it seemed like all of them have been at some point. I do NOT discredit people's actual suffering. But yeah. It was quite odd. I found myself wondering if at least half of them were bullshitting or if Tumblr just attracted a lot of rape survivors... If anyone's lying about their rape that's a terrible thing. Just like with mental health, they'd use something that legitimately makes people's lives difficult and sometimes close to impossible as some novelty to look more interesting and that is very wrong. To speak in Tumblr-nese: how dare you. (:P)  Nice Girls! We know the entitled Nice Guy, right? Who thinks you're a shallow whore because you won't rub your vag to his Doritos-crusted rolls in search for his penis while he doesn't pay one second of attention to girls who're actually in his league. Well, Tumblr often offers you a female version. While they don't focus as much on the morality (''I'm such a saint, now I deserve sex, how could you ever deny that to such a sweet person like myself'') they do focus a lot on the perceived shallowness of men who want to find a mate within their own species. They have the gall to say that men's preferences aren't legit, that they're just influenced by mainstream culture or that they're downright shallow for not looking past the rolls. (eeewww, do you want them to lift them and see your sweaty mould infections?) They deserve a good-looking man who'll just magically be attracted to their 400lbs living corpse because... ehhh... well... because.  http://cdn4.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/only-child-problems-sharing-main.jpg I WANNA HAVE! IT CAN'T BE THAT I HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN PIZZA AND A NICE BOYFRIEND! GIVE ME MORE! NOW!  (while body shaming short men, men with a smaller than average penis, thin women, normal women, women who're very fit, etc etc etc) They're all quirky and unique. They all have unique hair, a unique outfit, a quirky funny obsession with cats, a same sense of style, they're so unique that they're all the same. They all say the same things, no matter how actually offensive like mentioning their whining and entitled demanding to be thought of as attractive in one breath with the struggles of native and black people in the USA in the earlier 20th century. They've invented God knows how many sexual orientations and genders and are extremely fragile special snowflakes about it. The result is a massive army of The Same, a new average, and a bunch of spoiled, terribly uninteresting pseudo-philosophers who mistake their ''I wanna have'' with actual thought. Anybody who's ever grown up in an environment that wasn't extremely catering, emotionally safe and sheltered and privileged (yup!) will most likely feel a mixture of nausea and curiosity when reading these delusional rants and hashtags. They're the most privileged, the most spoiled girls out there and what they formed was an unhealthy, pathological, narcissistic echo chamber where any form of criticism is a trigger for their imaginary PTSD or anorexia which is without exception your fault.