I’m saying this as a butch transmasc - all transmascs need to take a step back and look at what kind of man (broad sense) they want to be. Masculinity is not about hormones or top surgery or body hair or anything surface like that, but about the role you play in the lives of women and children. Be chivalrous, be kind, prioritize their safety. Girls aren’t feeling comfortable or safe. Gender is a community role. Open the car door for your mother, tell your friends to stop weird behavior, and get over yourself.

So glad my finnster hate has been justified so blatantly

What is your Hogwarts house?

None, jkr makes me throw up in my mouth a little any time I see her or her works

I don't know if you're already aware, but tumblr is flagging any blog that touches your "trans women can be butches too" post as explicit, which is absolutely insane https://www.tumblr.com/tobi-smp/718210825124495360

link to the post you are sharing with me for easy reference

1 - it's my post but I am not the artist, I'm just sharing the work here (with permission from the artist) Now that I'm more regularly posting art on tumblr from artists that aren't on here, I'm making it a habit to check with the artists first.

2 - Yes I am fully aware. From what I understand of tumblr's community guidelines, it is because the figures in the piece are nude. The post is not "flagged" or hidden or removed and I have no strikes against my account for it, at least as far as I can tell. This is different from the "community labels" which are for content that is allowed on tumblr but tumblr would like labeled as "mature", with the option to indicate from three categories: drug and alcohol addiction, violence, sexual themes. A bit of a misnomer on the last one, as it applies to nonsexual nudity as well. So, the post is allowed on tumblr, just with a small indicator. Is it annoying? Yes. Are the community guidelines and rules regarding this stuff easy to make sense of? Nope. I recently appealed the 'sexual themes' label on another piece by the same artist and the label was sustained. Seems to me that nudity in general will get the label.

I'm surprised that your whole blog was marked as adult simply for reblogging this one post. I've made no small amount of 'mature' posts and reblogged plenty as well and from what I can tell, my blog is not marked as adult. Even my horny blog has recently had the mature status removed, after YEARS of being a pixelated icon! I do not think that having the adult label on a blog will result in the blog being deleted, in all likelihood. Basically, you're perfectly fine and I would assume this is a fluke or something. Maybe worth asking support about.

I certainly think that these labels are confusing for users and that the information available from tumblr about it is unclear. I also think our subcultural use of the "nsft" tag isn't helping haha! Of course it's not a real problem and I've used it too. We just use it to tag things that very much ARE allowed on tumblr which is funny and probably isn't helping with our understanding of what the rules are for this website.

I know I certainly would appreciate some clarity on the rules, what is allowed and what isn't, what constitutes a community label and what doesn't, what happens to accounts and blogs that are marked as mature, etc. I know we all could use more and clearer communication from @staff or @support about this

Anyone else more knowledgeable about this topic care to weigh in?

can someone please start a queer archive blog that *isn't* crawling with terfs? it would be real sweet if a single blog didn't have terf shit somewhere

everyone bitching like "you guys know making polls about how many gay ppl are on the site isnt statistically representative sampling!!" like well fucking obviously. it's a tumblr poll. however, it is a tumblr poll with the sole aim of ratioing the staff account, which is funny,

lol not tumblr making the way mobile notifications are displayed ugly and cumbersome and changing them back two days later

Re that last post: they have to do that, every social media app that allows pénis and such does too (Reddit, tweeto whatever). I think it should be changeable w/in the app tho

danganronpa is whispering its siren song to me but alas nobody shares my big brain million iq opinions (drv3 hater) (korekiyo defender) (ishimaru understander) (celeste and hifumi apologist) (kaito hater) (protagonist love triangle poly advocate) (post sdr2 anime enjoyer) (fucking hates the writing bar the first half of sdr1 and ending of sdr2) (never even finished v3 because it was so dogshit terrible and also i genuinely can barely get through the minigames) (problematic psychological horror fan)

listen i am by no means uncritical of ao3 but as someone who works in nonprofits most of the critique on ao3 comes from people who have no idea how nonprofits work

Some choice excerpts regarding gender and mass shootings from Jeff Kass' Columbine: A True Crime Story.

remember that tumblr went scorched earth on my friend mercury's blog for posting public information that people on staff engage in transmisogynistic media. remember tumblr refuses to address the issues of trans tags being banned yet terfs and neo-nazis blogs and tags remain intact. remember how tumblr banned black bloggers during blm protests deeming them russian psy-ops. and now tumblr recently banned a trans woman for posting transition photos deeming them sexual content.

this isnt a one time oopsie. repeated behavior has made tumblr a hostile place for marginalized bloggers. how much more will we take?

It doesn't matter if "the chicken is already in the nugget", people have a right to mad at Tumblr for selling off their user's data. Their promise to "discourage AI crawlers" make it very clear that their partnership with AI companies is one born out of rentseeking behavior. After how much of a shitshow this site's management has been, especially as of late, they honesty could have won back at least a little bit of goodwill back by making this an opt-in process, and not "opt-out and we'll make the companies paying do a pinkie promise the companies won't take your shit for their own profit" like it is now.

i mean, yes, all websites partnering with AI companies are rentseeking, but the people they're seeking rent from are the AI companies, so like, why should i care. bleed those idiots for all they're worth! what 'selling off their user's data' means here is just putting a price tag on the data that web crawlers have been taking for free for years--there was no protection of your posts or content from AI training data set collection before, the only difference now is that tumblr wants a cut of the midjourney money pile when they take what they were already taking.

& to be quite honest if 'making it more inconvenient for midjourney specifically to use your art for training thir models' would buy any goodwill from you towards the website whose ceo just had a transmisogynistic meltdown then your priorities are absoltuely fucked.

Not that my weighing in on anything means anything, but here’s my two cents as a decade plus user:

Tumblr has a TERF problem and has had one for a while. The amount of content on this website that was built around the HP fandom in the early days I think is particularly why. JKR did her thing and there was already a built-in cushion of diehards who might not have even had a formed opinion likely became transphobic and transmisogynists in defense of their favorite series.

The truscum and TERF lesbians catapulted themselves to the center of this new bloc by using the usual prey upon tactics, only fortifying their following.

Like any space being leeched upon by the far right, Tumblr was never really a place to take a foothold before as it was largely viewed as the SJW site- better to attack (like 4chan did) than to join. But it’s different now. It’s the last beacon of non-algorithmic social media. Sure the hardcore Nazis mostly stayed on Twitter post-Musk but you have to think how many of the TERFs who identify as LGB (no T) would leave a worse hellsite for this one.

What I’m getting at is, if you’ve been paying attention to the Tumblr ecosystem for as long as I have, you notice the trends. This issue has been festering for awhile, to claim as a CEO for the site that it’s misinformation is to ignore countless user experiences, most of us who’ve been using this site since before the acquisition by said CEO and company.

We’ve had this issue for years now, we’ve been trying to tell you, and you’ve done next to nothing. This is unacceptable and the backlash you’re getting from this is hubris.

HEY GUESS FUCKING WHAT

I didnt even talk about st*ff or moderation or anything :) this just confirms it, staff is actively transmisogynistic and on the side of terfs

this is now the 3rd, maybe 4th? post of this comic being flagged btw. this had less than 500 notes. theyre actively seeking trans positive content and flagging it

People defending finnster's latest video by being like 'he didn't make the thumbnail or give it that title he paid someone else to do that and he changed it when he saw it' need to realise that the person/people who *did* make the thumbnail and title did what they did because they saw the video, and saw that the video was literally Omegle trap content, and made what they thought suited it.

And their work did suit the video, because finnster's entire career is being transmisogynistic for tra-I mean, femboy fetishists. Which is what trans women and other TMAs are actually upset about and criticising him for, not because he's 'playing 5D gender chess' or whatever. And I know he's said that he doesn't see himself as cis and has a trans girlfriend, yadda yadda; he's still profiting off of actively being transmisogynistic.