So, About Crab Day

I'm sure alongside the Crab Day posts, plenty of my followers and mutuals and their followers and mututals have also seen the responses about the movement being crafted by Christian TERFs.

I've been trying to get a gauge of that myself on the multiple blogs of the many people bring this up - Here we have screencaps of two prominent CrabDay Trads.

A lot of the blazed posts have been by TradChristians, including the two mentioned in the screencaps. Often OP's of posts involving Crab Day, that I have personally gone to see the blogs of, have indeed been some form of transphobe - either TERF of self-proclaimed anti-feminist that reblogs from TERFs - many mention being pro-life and anti-porn directly, and every single one has been Christian.

Crab Day, on the surface, seemed to be a fun little fundraising idea for all of us to make a new holiday out of. We love those, we treasure our Tumblr Holidays here. It makes sense that Crab day has gotten more traction that protests or blackout proposals have.

However, it is not a secret that Christians abundantly blaze posts proselytizing on our beloved Gay Communist Website - it's very common in general for Christians to pay to spread propaganda (Skywriters at Disney, per example) and the abundance of conservatives pushing for this is important and concerning.

We are a community with a staff who does very little in response to genuine threats - bots, facists, TERFs, white supremacists, the list will go on. As such, we run the risk of this creating a welcome sign for other conservatives to make this place a stomping ground and for Christians to move to for digital missionary work, utilizing the prominent Tumblr Blaze feature, one of the few things that has been making this site money.

This does not need to be some psyop or strategy to usher those things in potentially. Staff will favor income over userbase every time. We know this. It's not a slippery slope - it is business at work, as we speak, in front of our eyes.

As a lapsed Catholic, I know for a fact that devoted Christians always find the money and resources to devote to Christianity. Devoted bigots always find the money and resources to devote to bigotry. And devoted, bigoted Christians gladly devote that money and those resources to things that target the marginalized communities they want to see gone.

I won't tell you whether or not to buy crabs. I will tell you that maybe it's association with Catholics and ism-ism-isms may be sticking and turning it into an association we may soon find to be unsavory. And that this may lend to future problems for this websites queer community. Money is power and the people currently using it here do not want us here and they are bigoted at best and hostile at worst.

Here's a link to a post that describes what I'm trying to say, I encourage you to like and reblog that one as well, and I will end on it's endnote - "...[We] need an option that makes it clear we don't support many of tumblr policies and how they treat tumblr users, while also giving tumblr a chance to win enough money to keep our beloved hellsite running. It can't be one or the other.[...] We need to give them so money, a fact, but we need to give it to them in a way it ends up in our benefit, that encourages good changes on this site, more disability functions, less transphobia, less homophobia, etc. That's the thing, okay?"