Encounters With SJWs/Tumblristas Offline or In Unusual Communities

[Jaimas]

What'd he do for Slaaneshmas?

Presumably the same thing he did for Great Horned Rat Day.

 

[DefunctChip]

Last year, something sort of nice happened with a friend of mine and I thought I'd share it.

A long-time friend of mine got clearance to have a holiday party at his workplace, but he was disallowed from having any thematic holiday decorations lest someone be left out. He then proceeded to ask if he could have them if every available culture was represented, and HR said yes.

That weekend, he put up a Christmas tree decorated with menorah lights and geld, bead ornaments for Kwanzaa, moon-and-star decorations, and topped by a santa ornament. There was some concern that the display would piss off one of HR's flunkies, who was a notorious SJW that tended to get offended by the stupidest shit.

"Merry everything," he said.
And she thought this was hilarious.
The season had been bridged and a good time was had by all.

That sounds super neat, actually. Like the actual epitome of 'happy holidays'.

 

[vertexwindi]

>no festivus representation
FUCKING RACISTS REEEEEEE

 

[lolwut]

Presumably the same thing he did for Great Horned Rat Day.

Pretty sure rats aren't supposed to go in there, but more power to him.

 

[Meowthkip]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, and I know it's not technically social justice but I think it's worth posting.

The motorcycle community seems to have had some hipster problems, but I didn't hear about it until after the fact.

I mention this because... just watch.
https://vimeo.com/55420992

Spoiler: TL : DW

A bunch of soy looking guys go on a camping trip over the weekend. The narrator talks about how they will become real manly men. Their idea of roughing it involves "artisan foods", driving on a dirt road, and unloading a truck.

There's some funny little details like the way they banned phones so they won't be distracted, but they are shown using them as alarm clocks. They say this trip will make them so manly that they won't need a compass to find north, they can just feel it, because a real man has an internal sense of direction?

So like did you... actually encounter these guys or what?

 

[Meowthkip]

No. I did not personally meet these specific guys. Though it is an usual community where I didn't expect to find them. Seemed relevant to the thread. I can delete it if it's not appropriate.

... Not really, no.

 

[Sharingan]

This thread is a little old but I actually have a good story to share. Spoiler'd because it's long.

Spoiler: 50 year old SJWS? It's more likely than you think!

I work in retail. A couple weeks ago I was manning one of the registers in our store with one of my co-workers, when some guy walks in. He's older, probably somewhere in-between his mid to late-forties and early fifties, got some dad vibes going on. Covered head to toe with tattoos, and wearing some of the biggest gauges I think I've ever personally seen in my life. He was sporting an edgy hairstyle, which was more suited for someone twenty to thirty years younger; wasn't sure if it was dyed super dark or that was his natural color. He also had painted nails. Being a bit of a judgmental asshole, I assumed that he was either gay or into the alternative scene. Whatever either way. We have a flamboyant twink and a lesbian couple as regulars (they're all pretty cool people), and we had two people who were very obviously transwomen come in when I was working yesterday. Needless to say, the store isn't a stranger to LGBT people.

As far as our store policy goes, we're constantly pushed to really interact with the customers; I try to make a point of at least attempting conversation with each person who walks in and seems like they'd be open to it (no kids or people with earbuds in, etc.). So, I start talking to this guy, and quickly the conversation verges into anime. Which is something that there's a very slight possibility of me liking. About two sentences in, he starts talking about how he's proud of Voltron for having a canon non-binary character.

I think at that moment my mind did a fucking double take. This guy is like, fifty. Beard and everything. Unless he'd been on hormones for a long-ass time, definitely a cis man. I smile and nod because the customer is always right and we need people to fill out positive surveys blah blah blah.

But wait, it gets better.

So he comes up to my register with a very expensive Skyrim figurine (cool! makes my numbers look good), and I start the transaction. He starts talking, and goes on about how, "I saw this in your store a few weeks ago and didn't want to buy it then because of the price, but then I was getting my haircut, and Kai kept repeating the phrase to me, 'Khajiit has wares if you have coin!' and told me to get this for him." My co-worker and I forcefully laugh at his shitty joke, and I begin to have my suspicions about what's going on here. Too long spent around Tumblrfucks, I guess.

So, I ask him if he has an account with our store, and I look up his number (honestly, at this point, if you shop where I work frequently you can probably guess where that is). I see his name, and ask him if that's it. He says yes, but he should probably get it changed. I'm like, yeah, sure, because it's super easy to change account-linked names in our system and also I'm curious to see where this is going; the name that's associated with his account is a masculine name, by the way. I ask what he wants to change it to, and he says, "Oh, I'm going by Kai [last name redacted, but it was really fucking weird] right now."

I actually could not believe what I was hearing. I think he's someone with DID, or at least thinks he is. But there's no way a grown man could be doing this, right? ...Right? ...Talking about non-binary Valtrans characters? It was the most surreal SJW experience of my life. I wonder if he has a Tumblr.

I forgot about him for a while but then I saw him again a few days ago at work. He brought his nine or so year old son (couldn't have been older than nine) in, who had dyed blue hair and painted nails. I don't remember what they bought but I do remember his interactions with the kid being... strange? I'm not entirely certain how to articulate it. It's hard to put into words.

Sorry for the length, lol. I'm just still in awe of this happening and felt the need to share it somewhere.

 

[Gingervitis]

This thread is a little old but I actually have a good story to share. Spoiler'd because it's long.

Spoiler: 50 year old SJWS? It's more likely than you think!

I work in retail. A couple weeks ago I was manning one of the registers in our store with one of my co-workers, when some guy walks in. He's older, probably somewhere in-between his mid to late-forties and early fifties, got some dad vibes going on. Covered head to toe with tattoos, and wearing some of the biggest gauges I think I've ever personally seen in my life. He was sporting an edgy hairstyle, which was more suited for someone twenty to thirty years younger; wasn't sure if it was dyed super dark or that was his natural color. He also had painted nails. Being a bit of a judgmental asshole, I assumed that he was either gay or into the alternative scene. Whatever either way. We have a flamboyant twink and a lesbian couple as regulars (they're all pretty cool people), and we had two people who were very obviously transwomen come in when I was working yesterday. Needless to say, the store isn't a stranger to LGBT people.

As far as our store policy goes, we're constantly pushed to really interact with the customers; I try to make a point of at least attempting conversation with each person who walks in and seems like they'd be open to it (no kids or people with earbuds in, etc.). So, I start talking to this guy, and quickly the conversation verges into anime. Which is something that there's a very slight possibility of me liking. About two sentences in, he starts talking about how he's proud of Voltron for having a canon non-binary character.

I think at that moment my mind did a fucking double take. This guy is like, fifty. Beard and everything. Unless he'd been on hormones for a long-ass time, definitely a cis man. I smile and nod because the customer is always right and we need people to fill out positive surveys blah blah blah.

But wait, it gets better.

So he comes up to my register with a very expensive Skyrim figurine (cool! makes my numbers look good), and I start the transaction. He starts talking, and goes on about how, "I saw this in your store a few weeks ago and didn't want to buy it then because of the price, but then I was getting my haircut, and Kai kept repeating the phrase to me, 'Khajiit has wares if you have coin!' and told me to get this for him." My co-worker and I forcefully laugh at his shitty joke, and I begin to have my suspicions about what's going on here. Too long spent around Tumblrfucks, I guess.

So, I ask him if he has an account with our store, and I look up his number (honestly, at this point, if you shop where I work frequently you can probably guess where that is). I see his name, and ask him if that's it. He says yes, but he should probably get it changed. I'm like, yeah, sure, because it's super easy to change account-linked names in our system and also I'm curious to see where this is going; the name that's associated with his account is a masculine name, by the way. I ask what he wants to change it to, and he says, "Oh, I'm going by Kai [last name redacted, but it was really fucking weird] right now."

I actually could not believe what I was hearing. I think he's someone with DID, or at least thinks he is. But there's no way a grown man could be doing this, right? ...Right? ...Talking about non-binary Valtrans characters? It was the most surreal SJW experience of my life. I wonder if he has a Tumblr.

I forgot about him for a while but then I saw him again a few days ago at work. He brought his nine or so year old son (couldn't have been older than nine) in, who had dyed blue hair and painted nails. I don't remember what they bought but I do remember his interactions with the kid being... strange? I'm not entirely certain how to articulate it. It's hard to put into words.

Sorry for the length, lol. I'm just still in awe of this happening and felt the need to share it somewhere.

There should be some sort of law that prevents parents from making their children look so awful that even the teachers want to shove them in a locker. I feel horrible for the poor thing and I hope social services gets their hands on him.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

I had a customer get sniffy with me because my retail workplace sells a couple products with "the G word" on them.

Gypsy.

I get that it's a slur but literally nobody thinks of the Romani when they say it and 99% of people who say it don't mean it negatively. And seriously, you're going to get sniffy at the lady who is second from the lowest on the food chain?? Yes, allow me to personally remove all products with The G Word...

 

[One Man Bland]

So with that built up she still managed to throw me off by going on this long ass, totally off topic rant in the middle of class about how Rosie the Riveter was ACTUALLY a Mexican woman named Rosita who they grabbed off the streets and never paid or gave credit to. Now naturally anyone who knows jackshit about jackshit knows this is a bogus story, one so bogus I don't even know where she got it from. Rosie the Riveter's model was actually a white woman named Naomi Parker Fraley who, while quitting the factory job several weeks later, worked at the factory that originally created the poster.

Slight correction here, but Naomi Farley wasn’t the one who quit the factory after a few weeks. That was Geraldine Hoff Doyle, who had mistaken the photo of Naomi as being a photo of herself initially. Naomi however worked in a factory throughout the entirety of the war effort.

 

[DefunctChip]

Slight correction here, but Naomi Farley wasn’t the one who quit the factory after a few weeks. That was Geraldine Hoff Doyle, who had mistaken the photo of Naomi as being a photo of herself initially. Naomi however worked in a factory throughout the entirety of the war effort.

I'm not sure which version is true. Some sources say it was Farley, some say it was Doyle. Most I've seen cite Farley. It was one of them for sure, and most certainly not some fictional 'Rosita'. I've read Farley quit too but I could be wrong. Could I see some sauce for that?

 

[One Man Bland]

I'm not sure which version is true. Some sources say it was Farley, some say it was Doyle. Most I've seen cite Farley. It was one of them for sure, and most certainly not some fictional 'Rosita'. I've read Farley quit too but I could be wrong. Could I see some sauce for that?

I know it’s the Washington Post, but this article gave a pretty good breakdown as to why there’s so much confusion.

The tl,dr version is that Doyle initially mistook woman in the photo as being her and wrote letters to the magazines that published with this claim that, in life, we’re mostly ignored. But then when she died in 2010 her grandchildren found some of these letters and put “the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter” in her obituary, which got picked up by all the bigger news stories because it made for a juicy fluff piece when pop feminism was becoming big. But then upon further investigation it was found it was highly unlikely that Doyle could be the woman in the photo, and Naomi Parker Farley was able to confirm that she was indeed the real Rosie inspiration with an original clipping of the photo that was captioned with Naomi’s name.

Unfortunately by that time Farley and Doyle’s stories have become hopelessly tangled since Doyle’s “quit after two weeks” also made for juicy counter-fluff due to the irony, and it doesn’t seem like that’s ever been completely cleared up since most of the articles crediting Doyle never bothered to make the correction.

 

[DefunctChip]

I know it’s the Washington Post, but this article gave a pretty good breakdown as to why there’s so much confusion.

The tl,dr version is that Doyle initially mistook woman in the photo as being her and wrote letters to the magazines that published with this claim that, in life, we’re mostly ignored. But then when she died in 2010 her grandchildren found some of these letters and put “the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter” in her obituary, which got picked up by all the bigger news stories because it made for a juicy fluff piece when pop feminism was becoming big. But then upon further investigation it was found it was highly unlikely that Doyle could be the woman in the photo, and Naomi Parker Farley was able to confirm that she was indeed the real Rosie inspiration with an original clipping of the photo that was captioned with Naomi’s name.

Unfortunately by that time Farley and Doyle’s stories have become hopelessly tangled since Doyle’s “quit after two weeks” also made for juicy counter-fluff due to the irony, and it doesn’t seem like that’s ever been completely cleared up since most of the articles crediting Doyle never bothered to make the correction.

Ahhh. Thanks, that clears a lot of stuff up. It's too bad that Farley got saddled with Doyle's half of the story instead of giving her credit for what she actually did.

 

[cocksmash25]

Gonna bump this thread with an unfortunately long story. I had to endure classes for a long-ass time with the most tumblr person I've ever met in real life and it raised my self esteem quite a bit.

Spoiler: lotsa details to this one

I had a lot of classes with this strange individual who would constantly waddle into class late in either gigantic drooping ripped tanktops that exposed 75% of their underarms and sides, or literal granny muumuu dresses. Almost always wearing some kind of anime shirt, usually attack on titan, and always doing the extremely-self-conscious powerwalk shuffle + lard-choked heavy panting combo. Not a great way to be inconspicuous for someone with, as we will later find, absolutely devastating anxiety.

I made the mistake of making passing conversation with this person when they day finally came that they sat next to me. Well, as with every socially-starved tumblrite, this meant I was instantly her new best friend and she would not leave me the fuck alone. By this point I was getting a close enough look and could clock the voice to confidently say "she", despite her best efforts at being a pudgy undercut blob in hideous tops.

In her endless stream of oversharing I come to find out that she is somehow 4 years older than me despite having the face and height of a middle schooler, is in her 5th year of college due to repeatedly failing classes and only taking like 6 credits a semester (her rich parents paid for all of it and you’d better believe they’re hella abusive for making her go up to their fuckin private cabin when she just wants to play mmos in her room all day long), had some chromosonal disorder that qualified her to be intersex, had an ex queerplatonic parter who was her ‘abuser’, was super duper asexy, and cripplingly depressed tm. She also listed off her mogai genders that you couldn't pay me to remember. She told me all of this after I said 2 polite sentences to her in passing. Oh, and for some reason or another, considered herself trans enough to pick a New Bonus name: Eren.

Due to the amounts of AoT shirts she wore, despite it not being explicitly infodumped on me, I am convinced she picked the name from the protagonist of that anime. Which is hilarious. That anime is about glorifying Japanese imeperialism and how they were better off in the axis powers with nazi Germany fftopic: which is actually a fascinating case study on how the unique trademarks of Japanese fascism are completely lost on westerners, that show had one hell of a popularity streak over here before someone actually realized what it was about fftopic: so the fact that she still uses that name, in modern tumblr climate, could be a reasonable bullet point in a callout post. But I digress.

She would constantly sit next to me and try to talk about how depressed she was in that “I wanna die lmao” tumblr way and it always made me feel better. There’s no better cure for impostor syndrome than to see someone that’s such a fuckup. She never did homework, constantly copied off my quizzes forcing me to actively block her view with my arms every single time, didn’t do any work for in-class problems and just copied off her group (always me and my actual friend due to seat proximity) and would constantly deadpan mumble about failing exams despite putting in no effort. She also told me her tumblr url because of course she had one and of course she couldn’t resist talking about it.

She once came into class and showed me a ‘sigil’ she drew on her cankle to magically reduce anxiety. I swear, all I needed was for her to talk about her kins and she’d tick every single tumblr box there is. Apparently that sigil did jack shit because our professor once told her off for not being prepared to answer questions and not being able to provide any answers past her quivering shaky mumbling at being put on the spot. I swear, she was like, on the verge of tears the whole rest of class and angrily muttering under her breath like a psychopath about “how could he do that to me” and I wanted to be anywhere else. Christ. :powerlevel: Made me feel fuckin great about how far I’ve come with my own GAD. :powerlevel:

Anyway she eventually dropped out for like, the third time in her attempts at finishing college and I’d hope that would be the end of it. Well, she briefly showed back up this semester, but vanished again just as quickly. I was intrigued and checked her tumblr, as I often do when I’m bored, and what do I find? After 5 years of bashing her head against a physics major, she switched majors to geology. Fucking geology. It’s like the freshman who has no idea what they actually want to do so they just throw a dart at any science thing that looks fun with no consideration for job prospects or usefulness, except she’s a goddamn super-senior. I also found out she’s still at junior status after all these years. Tuition well spent.

I won't post her url for my own privacy because I’m still in the same town as this person, but trust me when I say it’s pretty tame stuff, just typical mogai discourse and “I wanna die” personal posts. It was just the personal encounter that really shook me to my core… I didn’t believe that tumblr could leak that severely, but it’s out there. They live among us, panting our air, sweating in our chairs, wearing terrible revealing tank tops… cheating off our goddamn quizzes.

 

[Tactical Wizard]

I'm a long-time fan of the World of Darkness games and it's kind of stunning how they've been overrun with danger hairs. I've always been kind of out of step with the rest of the fandom as it was primarily made by some pretty weak-tea liberals back in the day and I'm not. Regardless, it was edgy when edgy was in and came up with some truly cool concepts and ideas. It was weird and it was dark and it was fun. However it was, and is, a modern/urban horror game and it's not afraid to show it.

Which is why it puzzles me that so much of the tumblr crowd has gravitated towards it. There was an FAQ that they did. It's 63 minutes. Exactly two thirds of that is safe-space sperging and the last third is actual questions. This is a game line who's flagship RPG is about playing a vampire. Feeding is highly sexually coded and it's hammered home that no matter how good you're trying to be, you're a blood drinking creature of the night who will sometimes kill to eat. There is some seriously trigger-worthy shit in these games and it boggles my mind.

These games know what they fuck they are and they're not afraid to show it off:

Spoiler: NSFW VAMPIRE TIDDIES!

EDIT: So how the hell did they end up here?

 

[Meowthkip]

I'm a long-time fan of the World of Darkness games and it's kind of stunning how they've been overrun with danger hairs. I've always been kind of out of step with the rest of the fandom as it was primarily made by some pretty weak-tea liberals back in the day and I'm not. Regardless, it was edgy when edgy was in and came up with some truly cool concepts and ideas. It was weird and it was dark and it was fun. However it was, and is, a modern/urban horror game and it's not afraid to show it.

Which is why it puzzles me that so much of the tumblr crowd has gravitated towards it. There was an FAQ that they did. It's 63 minutes. Exactly two thirds of that is safe-space sperging and the last third is actual questions. This is a game line who's flagship RPG is about playing a vampire. Feeding is highly sexually coded and it's hammered home that no matter how good you're trying to be, you're a blood drinking creature of the night who will sometimes kill to eat. There is some seriously trigger-worthy shit in these games and it boggles my mind.

These games know what they fuck they are and they're not afraid to show it off:

Spoiler: NSFW VAMPIRE TIDDIES!

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EDIT: So how the hell did they end up here?

They want to be badass vampires that don't take no shit from nobody, but they also don't want their feelings hurt.

Some people are more triggered by being called the wrong pronouns than by people being disemboweled and eaten alive.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I'm a long-time fan of the World of Darkness games and it's kind of stunning how they've been overrun with danger hairs. I've always been kind of out of step with the rest of the fandom as it was primarily made by some pretty weak-tea liberals back in the day and I'm not. Regardless, it was edgy when edgy was in and came up with some truly cool concepts and ideas. It was weird and it was dark and it was fun. However it was, and is, a modern/urban horror game and it's not afraid to show it.

Which is why it puzzles me that so much of the tumblr crowd has gravitated towards it. There was an FAQ that they did. It's 63 minutes. Exactly two thirds of that is safe-space sperging and the last third is actual questions. This is a game line who's flagship RPG is about playing a vampire. Feeding is highly sexually coded and it's hammered home that no matter how good you're trying to be, you're a blood drinking creature of the night who will sometimes kill to eat. There is some seriously trigger-worthy shit in these games and it boggles my mind.

And to think that time was when the biggest danger from fellow players in VTM was that they'd be fishmalks. Specifically, they'd pick clan Malkavian then think that insanity involves gibbering a lot and hitting people with fish then running away or doing totes random shit. No. It involves actual mental health problems. Like being paranoid schizophrenic and believing that THEY are all out to get you and hearing voices in your head. Or having dissociative identity disorder (think Jeanette/Therése in VTMB), or extreme anxiety to the point at which they can't concentrate on anything.

 

[Magique]

Nobody plays a good malkavian. I only had one and she's gone playing pathfinder 2 testing. One of my player think that having a will check in gurps to resist frenzy whenever he's drinking blood is good enough delusion.

Anyway, I had my fill with Sjw this year. I had one who complain about the table my waitress had to choose. They just had to have the best table in the restaurant and if they weren't, it's because we were transphobic pigs.

 

[Jaimas]

I'm a long-time fan of the World of Darkness games and it's kind of stunning how they've been overrun with danger hairs. I've always been kind of out of step with the rest of the fandom as it was primarily made by some pretty weak-tea liberals back in the day and I'm not. Regardless, it was edgy when edgy was in and came up with some truly cool concepts and ideas. It was weird and it was dark and it was fun. However it was, and is, a modern/urban horror game and it's not afraid to show it.

Which is why it puzzles me that so much of the tumblr crowd has gravitated towards it. There was an FAQ that they did. It's 63 minutes. Exactly two thirds of that is safe-space sperging and the last third is actual questions. This is a game line who's flagship RPG is about playing a vampire. Feeding is highly sexually coded and it's hammered home that no matter how good you're trying to be, you're a blood drinking creature of the night who will sometimes kill to eat. There is some seriously trigger-worthy shit in these games and it boggles my mind.

These games know what they fuck they are and they're not afraid to show it off:

Spoiler: NSFW VAMPIRE TIDDIES!

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EDIT: So how the hell did they end up here?

The same way they ended up infesting D&D, Pathfinder, Magic: The Gathering, Video Games as a whole, and pretty much every other stereotypical "nerd" hobby they've been able to worm their tentacles into: They get one or two people into a position of authority, usually a diversity hire, who then proceeda to direct the hiring pool to their personal friends from the ideological echo-chamber in order to achieve ideological hegemony. In the purview of a Social Justice-type, someone who is "down with the cause" but has no relevant experience whatsoever is inherently more moral than an expert in their field who does not march in ideological lockstep.

As is mostly the case, these ideological takeovers usually begin when multiple subcommunities around the hobby in question are already infested, giving them the green light to recruit their friends. Official Subreddits are infamous for this, as are external sites (RPGnet has been completely overtaken since sometime around 2010). Traditionally, they have the viewpoint that the entire community is somehow to blame for the problems of a minority in it, and since they also inherently believe that everyone is too stupid to make decisions for themselves (because they may express their right to choose something they don't want), they're big on pushing ideological shit.

It helps that many of them are outright ideologues who do not give a single, solitary fuck about the games and hobbies they claim to, instead using them as just one more avenue to push an agenda - for example, the former CEO of Paizo declaring she fucking hated PNP RPGs.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

I make it a personal policy to avoid SJW types as much as possible, but sometimes, that just isn't feasible.

The funniest encounter this year was while I was at a party with a handful of them and one piped up and said "Why do men think that women can't stand the sight of blood? So sexist". I have literally never heard any man ever say that and I have never encountered that in my life. I have absolutely no idea what she was talking about. It might be something that one or two guys said to her (and that's me giving her the benefit of the doubt because again, I have no idea what type of guy would say such a thing), and she just assumed all men feel that way. The funniest part was that nobody really wanted to challenge her on it and just smiled and nodded. I can't help but think that we were all secretly wondering "The fuck is she talking about?".

It is kind of an amazing phenomenon that these type of people can literally say whatever dumb thing they want with almost no fear of being challenged. I guess its like an Emperor's New Clothes type of situation where nobody wants to be called a bigot, so they keep their mouths shut no matter how asinine the other person sounds.