Encounters With SJWs/Tumblristas Offline or In Unusual Communities

[TheMightyMonarch]

I think the normal-as-fuck state of being dissatisfied with your own body combined with wanting to opt out of being a woman (because being a woman is really hard but it's also not very special) has combined into a desire to be something else. So, yeah, I think it's a valid concern.

Best case scenario, it's a phase and she'll come out the other side of it with a renewed sense of self having a more solid grasp on gender and gender roles, and how she fits into them.

Worst case scenario, she keeps doing this shit and isolating all her non-SJW friends until she becomes a complete crazy person.

Yeah, honestly I just think she's insecure about her gender and what's expected of her. I'll try not to powerlevel much about her over here, but I feel like she always felt like the "ugly" one in groups of other females (whether it be with her two other sisters or with her small group of friends). But at the same time, she put little to no effort into her appearance. I get that make up isn't for everyone and that's totally fine but at times she has even a hard time getting her most basic hygiene standards met. She's not unattractive in the very least. I was talking about it to my other friend yesterday and she mentioned that she always wants to cosplay as male characters instead of female characters. I kinda interpret this as her usually relating to male characters more than female characters because of her believing herself to be an "ugly duckling tomboy" and feeling like there is no female character in any form of media that she likes that truly represents her. She can also sometimes be kinda misogynistic towards certain female characters as well.

She also told me while she is gonna have a different persona at work from now on, I can still refer to her by her real first name (which is very feminine sounding) and female pronouns. So as long as she doesn't bring up that she's ~*genderfluid every five seconds, then I think it's not gonna be so bad, for now. It still kinda sucks though because I always felt like she was smarter than this. She used to make fun of this bullshit and now she's apart of it. It's not only the fact that she's now intertwined in Tumblr's crazy cult, but she's become such a shut in the last few years or so. We used to do everything together, and now it's a major accomplishment if I convince her to go out drinking for me for more than a hour. She doesn't even have any goals or dreams and she's only 23. I don't want to loose someone who's been like a sister to me to this craziness.

Oh how I long for the days where she just came out a furry to me.

 

[Operator Kyoko Sakura]

Okay, well here's another story with some of my encounters with SJWs off of tumblr.

So I used to play a lot of TF2, as in, a lot of it. I have 1.1k hours in the game. So anyway, I used to use tumblr a bit, I followed a blog called "Shitpeoplesayintf2", well one day, they posted "Hey we got a server now, wanna play? Just copy and paste the IP into the server browser." So I did just that.

At first, everything seemed normal, just your average run of the mill community TF2 server, only problems it had the first like month or so it was up and running where your average problems such as server going offline random and some lag. Then by the end of summer 2014, they took the server down because of payment issues, I didn't think much of it, it came back within a week, that's when things took a turn for the worse.

Nobody was playing the game anymore, instead they where just "being friendly" (if you're wondering what that is, in TF2 somebody decides not to kill anybody), well just for fun, I killed a "friendly" in the game and they started raging "OMG WHY DID YOU KILL ME?" I apologized, but then started going on about how death "triggered" then and the site of blood was causing them to be "uncomfortable". It didn't stop there, for like 2 months, the server was an SJW haven, full of people complaining about the most trivial of issues, such as female body objectification, yet bragged at the same time about how their TF2 playermodels all where naked or sexy variants of them.

So yeah, long story short, I wasn't expecting a game like TF2 to have such a cult of SJWs playing the game. But hey, I thought before that, it was just Scoutgender and his buttbuddies that were SJW TF2 fans.

 

[Smarmy]

I have a friend who I think actually had a post of hers wind up on the "Random Tumblr Post" thread not too long ago. She's completely gone down that tumblr sewage pipe of becoming a hardcore sjw. We don't talk much anymore, but I still like to keep an eye on her since she's become something of a legend with my other friends.

The last time I saw her, months ago, she made an complete idiot out of herself. We decided to hang out in this really artsy neighborhood in a nearby city, and she immediately decided everyone and everything was white. Neither of us had been there before, and we weren't even there yet, but it was obviously going to be super white. It was going to be boring. There were too many white people. She didn't feel safe. Blah blah blah. The entire ride over, she insisted on dragging the conversation back to race. It didn't matter what we were talking about, because she brought race into it. Visited a friend at another college? She wagered they hated POC there. Shit like that.

Anyway, we got there and decided to grab food. She felt all smug and wouldn't stop talking about how she was right, because she only saw white people walking around. She decided it was going to be a horrible time, because she was so dark-skinned and all of the crackers out here were obviously going to hate her and be suspicious of her. Nothing happened, of course. No one even looked at us. We got our food and sat outside. That's when she started to get really embarrassing. A muslim couple happened to walk by, and she nearly crapped her pants in excitement when she saw them. She started very loudly and very energetically telling me to look at them, because finally there were other POC! Oh my god! Let's make a fucking spectacle of the couple minding their own business!

And she kept doing that for every single non-white person she saw. We were outside, and I'm pretty sure some of them could hear her. It was extremely embarrassing, and she wouldn't stop even after I suggested she settle down a little. Apparently it was justified, because seeing other POC made her feel safe in the mayo town. I haven't made any plans to see her since, and I have no intention to.

It's just so fascinating. In her great strides to not be racist, she's become really fucking racist.

(Hey everyone! I'm new and probably going to spend most of my time lurking. Take care!)

 

[Operator Kyoko Sakura]

I have a friend who I think actually had a post of hers wind up on the "Random Tumblr Post" thread not too long ago. She's completely gone down that tumblr sewage pipe of becoming a hardcore sjw. We don't talk much anymore, but I still like to keep an eye on her since she's become something of a legend with my other friends.

The last time I saw her, months ago, she made an complete idiot out of herself. We decided to hang out in this really artsy neighborhood in a nearby city, and she immediately decided everyone and everything was white. Neither of us had been there before, and we weren't even there yet, but it was obviously going to be super white. It was going to be boring. There were too many white people. She didn't feel safe. Blah blah blah. The entire ride over, she insisted on dragging the conversation back to race. It didn't matter what we were talking about, because she brought race into it. Visited a friend at another college? She wagered they hated POC there. Shit like that.

Anyway, we got there and decided to grab food. She felt all smug and wouldn't stop talking about how she was right, because she only saw white people walking around. She decided it was going to be a horrible time, because she was so dark-skinned and all of the crackers out here were obviously going to hate her and be suspicious of her. Nothing happened, of course. No one even looked at us. We got our food and sat outside. That's when she started to get really embarrassing. A muslim couple happened to walk by, and she nearly crapped her pants in excitement when she saw them. She started very loudly and very energetically telling me to look at them, because finally there were other POC! Oh my god! Let's make a fucking spectacle of the couple minding their own business!

And she kept doing that for every single non-white person she saw. We were outside, and I'm pretty sure some of them could hear her. It was extremely embarrassing, and she wouldn't stop even after I suggested she settle down a little. Apparently it was justified, because seeing other POC made her feel safe in the mayo town. I haven't made any plans to see her since, and I have no intention to.

It's just so fascinating. In her great strides to not be racist, she's become really fucking racist.

(Hey everyone! I'm new and probably going to spend most of my time lurking. Take care!)

That's pretty fucking racist of her to make you look at a Muslim couple that just happened to walk in.

Quick question, was she white herself?

Also, welcome to the forums.

 

[fishercat]

Okay, well here's another story with some of my encounters with SJWs off of tumblr.

So I used to play a lot of TF2, as in, a lot of it. I have 1.1k hours in the game. So anyway, I used to use tumblr a bit, I followed a blog called "Shitpeoplesayintf2", well one day, they posted "Hey we got a server now, wanna play? Just copy and paste the IP into the server browser." So I did just that.

At first, everything seemed normal, just your average run of the mill community TF2 server, only problems it had the first like month or so it was up and running where your average problems such as server going offline random and some lag. Then by the end of summer 2014, they took the server down because of payment issues, I didn't think much of it, it came back within a week, that's when things took a turn for the worse.

Nobody was playing the game anymore, instead they where just "being friendly" (if you're wondering what that is, in TF2 somebody decides not to kill anybody), well just for fun, I killed a "friendly" in the game and they started raging "OMG WHY DID YOU KILL ME?" I apologized, but then started going on about how death "triggered" then and the site of blood was causing them to be "uncomfortable". It didn't stop there, for like 2 months, the server was an SJW haven, full of people complaining about the most trivial of issues, such as female body objectification, yet bragged at the same time about how their TF2 playermodels all where naked or sexy variants of them.

So yeah, long story short, I wasn't expecting a game like TF2 to have such a cult of SJWs playing the game. But hey, I thought before that, it was just Scoutgender and his buttbuddies that were SJW TF2 fans.

There are so many SJWs in the TF2 fandom it's not even funny. The blog in question apparently considers "dumb" and "stupid" a slur. Yeeaaaah...

There's a ton of posts on Tumblr that are like "I think Medic is autistic" and "Demoman obviously has PTSD just like me!!!" It's really grating and it's annoying to have to wade through that to find good fanart.

I met a SJW once while playing on a random TF2 server. We were playing together and it was great, so we added each other on Steam. Then they mentioned that they were nonbinary. So I was like "okay, whatever. You're still fun to play with, so who gives a fuck." Fast forward a month or so and we're following each other's blog, and this person goes insane with the SJW bullshit. And I met this person as just another random TF2 player. It's scary how many SJW nutjobs play that game.

 

[Operator Kyoko Sakura]

There are so many SJWs in the TF2 fandom it's not even funny. The blog in question apparently considers "dumb" and "stupid" a slur. Yeeaaaah...

There's a ton of posts on Tumblr that are like "I think Medic is autistic" and "Demoman obviously has PTSD just like me!!!" It's really grating and it's annoying to have to wade through that to find good fanart.

I met a SJW once while playing on a random TF2 server. We were playing together and it was great, so we added each other on Steam. Then they mentioned that they were nonbinary. So I was like "okay, whatever. You're still fun to play with, so who gives a fuck." Fast forward a month or so and we're following each other's blog, and this person goes insane with the SJW bullshit. And I met this person as just another random TF2 player. It's scary how many SJW nutjobs play that game.

The shit people say in TF2 blog is probably one of the most batshit insane blogs ever. You know a blog is terrible when it has to put MLP or bronies as a fucking trigger warning because tumblristas think automatically that brony must mean filthy MRA fedora neckbeard from reddit.

LOL, but yeah, the TF2 fandom was a mistake to partake in for me, I'm glad I left it, I grew sick of hearing about every stupid headcanon, which the majority revolved around Pyro's gender.

 

[fishercat]

The shit people say in TF2 blog is probably one of the most batshit insane blogs ever. You know a blog is terrible when it has to put MLP or bronies as a fucking trigger warning because tumblristas think automatically that brony must mean filthy MRA fedora neckbeard from reddit.

I only follow them because the actual screencaps of TF2 chats are sometimes really funny. I try to ignore literally every other aspect of the blog, though.

Really, you wouldn't expect a first person shooter to get so many SJW fans. Maybe it's because of the bright colors and stylized characters. And the fact that all of them are (probably) male, so they can have their hawt yaois.

 

[TheMightyMonarch]

(Hey everyone! I'm new and probably going to spend most of my time lurking. Take care!)

Welcome to the farms, @Smarmy! You're ex friend sounds insufferable. I'm glad that you were able to get away from her.

There are so many SJWs in the TF2 fandom it's not even funny. The blog in question apparently considers "dumb" and "stupid" a slur. Yeeaaaah...

There's a ton of posts on Tumblr that are like "I think Medic is autistic" and "Demoman obviously has PTSD just like me!!!" It's really grating and it's annoying to have to wade through that to find good fanart.

I met a SJW once while playing on a random TF2 server. We were playing together and it was great, so we added each other on Steam. Then they mentioned that they were nonbinary. So I was like "okay, whatever. You're still fun to play with, so who gives a fuck." Fast forward a month or so and we're following each other's blog, and this person goes insane with the SJW bullshit. And I met this person as just another random TF2 player. It's scary how many SJW nutjobs play that game.

To be fair, the PTSD thing doesn't sound to far fetched, given the kind of work that the characters have to do. But given that the series likes to play up the humorous aspect more than anything, I highly doubt that it will ever become canon. Also if those people claiming to have PTSD didn't actually self diagnosed themselves, then I'll eat my hat.

Come to think of it, what's with TF2 and SJWs? You got a series where the overwhelming majority of the cast is full of cis white males (and the one token "poc" character is voiced by a white guy). Wouldn't SJWs hate it? I mean, at least with Steven Universe it makes sense considering that it hits off a lot of the SJW checkpoints.

 

[Operator Kyoko Sakura]

I only follow them because the actual screencaps of TF2 chats are sometimes really funny. I try to ignore literally every other aspect of the blog, though.

Really, you wouldn't expect a first person shooter to get so many SJW fans. Maybe it's because of the bright colors and stylized characters. And the fact that all of them are (probably) male, so they can have their hawt yaois.

Yeah, some of the screenshots they have are pretty funny, I agree with that. I also don't get tumblrinas obsession with yaoi as they get mad at yuri and say men can't be objectified.

Welcome to the farms, @Smarmy! You're ex friend sounds insufferable. I'm glad that you were able to get away from her.



To be fair, the PTSD thing doesn't sound to far fetched, given the kind of work that the characters have to do. But given that the series likes to play up the humorous aspect more than anything, I highly doubt that it will ever become canon. Also if those people claiming to have PTSD didn't actually self diagnosed themselves, then I'll eat my hat.

Come to think of it, what's with TF2 and SJWs? You got a series where the overwhelming majority of the cast is full of cis white males (and the one token "poc" character is voiced by a white guy). Wouldn't SJWs hate it? I mean, at least with Steven Universe it makes sense considering that it hits off a lot of the SJW checkpoints.

I think part of the reason it's like that is because of Pyro, nobody knows Pyro's gender and their voice is muffled by the gas mask, my friend thinks it's just your stereotypical gay man. I agree with her a bit. But I honestly don't care about Pyro's gender.

Then again, the genderbent version of TF2 is pretty popular too.

Finally but not least, one of the VAs from the TF2 SFM, the Voice actress of Miss Pauling, Ashley Burch, hates violence and is a mild SJW, yet here she is, voicing Miss Pauling, Tiny Tina from Borderlands 2, Sasha Braus from the Attack on Titan English dub, Aliens Colonial marines, Evolve, and Mortal Kombat to name a few things.

 

[Meowthkip]

I only follow them because the actual screencaps of TF2 chats are sometimes really funny. I try to ignore literally every other aspect of the blog, though.

Really, you wouldn't expect a first person shooter to get so many SJW fans. Maybe it's because of the bright colors and stylized characters. And the fact that all of them are (probably) male, so they can have their hawt yaois.

Back in my day on TF2chan, these fucking babies would have been laughed out and told they were faggots and to just enjoy the porn. Then the Sniperdile drama happened and the admin responded with the epilepsy background and relax.wav, and then many a DA user that had used the board migrated to Tumblr.

This was the beginning of the end of the good times.

I miss when the biggest source of drama was starting a fight over Scout's hair color.

 

[Operator Kyoko Sakura]

Back in my day on TF2chan, these fucking babies would have been laughed out and told they were faggots and to just enjoy the porn. Then the Sniperdile drama happened and the admin responded with the epilepsy background and relax.wav, and then many a DA user that had used the board migrated to Tumblr.

This was the beginning of the end of the good times.

I miss when the biggest source of drama was starting a fight over Scout's hair color.

I miss the good ol days of TF2, little to no items in the game, no hats, and no SJWs or tumblr to ruin it.

 

[Meowthkip]

I miss the good ol days of TF2, little to no items in the game, no hats, and no SJWs or tumblr to ruin it.

I'm cool with the ridiculous items. The game was already pretty silly to begin with, and during my period where I played it the most I was mostly on 4chan servers that never took the game seriously anyway.

But, yes. The SJWs have dampened my enjoyment of the game quite a bit. I'm finally able to play again on my new computer and I'm not even sure I want to, really.

 

[Operator Kyoko Sakura]

I'm cool with the ridiculous items. The game was already pretty silly to begin with, and during my period where I played it the most I was mostly on 4chan servers that never took the game seriously anyway.

But, yes. The SJWs have dampened my enjoyment of the game quite a bit. I'm finally able to play again on my new computer and I'm not even sure I want to, really.

I've been looking into the TF2 classic mod, kinda restores the pre-ftp vibes of TF2.

Yeah to get back on subject, now that I remember, the shit people say in TF2 server apparently wanted to split into two servers, one for serious play, the other for friendlies and other people who need trigger warnings all the fucking time in life.

Which is hilarious that they're pretty much making a server for serious play and one for the pansies who don't play the game. Almost like the Salty Spitoon and Weenie Hut's. Of course their tumblr would be weenie hut's jr.

Welcome to the Shit People Say In TF2 server, how tough are ya? How tough am I, I'm so tough, I can play TF2! Yeah? Without any Trigger warnings!

 

[Wallace]

Yeah, honestly I just think she's insecure about her gender and what's expected of her. I'll try not to powerlevel much about her over here, but I feel like she always felt like the "ugly" one in groups of other females (whether it be with her two other sisters or with her small group of friends). But at the same time, she put little to no effort into her appearance. I get that make up isn't for everyone and that's totally fine but at times she has even a hard time getting her most basic hygiene standards met. She's not unattractive in the very least. I was talking about it to my other friend yesterday and she mentioned that she always wants to cosplay as male characters instead of female characters. I kinda interpret this as her usually relating to male characters more than female characters because of her believing herself to be an "ugly duckling tomboy" and feeling like there is no female character in any form of media that she likes that truly represents her. She can also sometimes be kinda misogynistic towards certain female characters as well.

She also told me while she is gonna have a different persona at work from now on, I can still refer to her by her real first name (which is very feminine sounding) and female pronouns. So as long as she doesn't bring up that she's ~*genderfluid every five seconds, then I think it's not gonna be so bad, for now. It still kinda sucks though because I always felt like she was smarter than this. She used to make fun of this bullshit and now she's apart of it. It's not only the fact that she's now intertwined in Tumblr's crazy cult, but she's become such a shut in the last few years or so. We used to do everything together, and now it's a major accomplishment if I convince her to go out drinking for me for more than a hour. She doesn't even have any goals or dreams and she's only 23. I don't want to loose someone who's been like a sister to me to this craziness.

Oh how I long for the days where she just came out a furry to me.

It sounds like this is a type of defense mechanism for your friend; creating an alternate persona for her to explore parts of herself she doesn't understand or isn't comfortable with expressing normally. This sort of thing isn't unprecedented. It's a way to put some emotional distance between yourself and your issues. It only becomes trouble when the line between fantasy and reality gets blurred or they live in the fantasy so much it becomes a detriment to real life.

 

[Tailypo]

Right, I might as well share my story. This ended up kinda long, but that's only because this person is a special case.

There's an SJW who goes to the English club on my campus. Let's call her T.

I first met T last year in October, when I was asked to do a presentation on how the portrayal of vampires has changed over the centuries. Seeing as how it was almost Halloween and I loved everything related to horror, I happily agreed.

The presentation started off pretty good, with me talking about how Lilith was viewed as a vampire-like demon by some cultures. Then T interrupted the presentation to ask me if I knew about Cain being a vampire. Her source for this? A video game. In retrospect, that should have been a red flag, but I shrugged it off and continued on with the presentation. Towards the end, she interrupted me again and starting talking about...anime. Not vampire anime, mind you, but just anime in general. At this point, she overtook my presentation and was now talking about yaoi with the other club members. You can imagine the bafflement and anger I felt at having my presentation cast aside for some ramblings of a weeaboo.

But it got worse.

T became a regular member of our English club. I could (barely) tolerate her weebish behavior, but slowly I began to notice her SJW side. The first sign of her being an SJW was when we making up traits for characters in our stories (we had a writer's workshop type of meeting on that day where we shared book ideas). Some of the traits were pretty standard stuff, like age, gender, race, sexuality, hair and eye color, etc. Two of T's characters were a demisexual and a demigirl. You should've seen the look on my face; before that, I had only seen that shit on Tumblr and no where else. The other members, naturally, had no idea what the fuck those terms meant, and T took it upon herself to educate them.

It gets worse.

In February, we decided that our club should do something for Valentine's Day. One member suggested writing poems and sonnets on pieces of paper and tying them to little bottles, then selling them as Valentine gifts. The original plan was to handwrite the poems in cursive to make them look fancy, but T was against that idea because "what if there are dyslexic students who can't read cursive?" She also suggested that we make separate poems for people who are "queer platonic." We ended up typing the poems instead, and we didn't do any additional poems for the queer platonic crowd, who I highly doubt even exist on our campus.

T's bullshit continued. I later found out that she had a Tumblr (no fucking surprise), but I don't know what her username is. At one point, she claimed that we shouldn't use the words "psycho" or "crazy" when describing villains because that was "casual ableism." She also wore THE SAME FUCKING CLOTHING EVERY DAY FOR THE ENTIRE SEMESTER (she claimed that she regularly washed them, BUT STILL WHAT THE FUCK).

The biggest highlight, however, was when I get into an argument with her over, of all things, Adventure Time. You see, T is a big advocate for LGBT rights, which is fine and dandy, but her views on it are borderline Tumblr retarded. I'm not even sure how this topic came up; I guess we were just casually talking about AT and someone brought up the Marceline/Bubblegum ship, when T proclaimed that networks should stop caring about what religious conservatives think and allow openly gay couples on kids' cartoons. Now, as much as I want to see more representation in kids' media, I knew that this was a horrible idea. I said to her that if a network did that, they could get in huge trouble over it. She huffed and said that she didn't care if they got in trouble because progression is more important. I tried to explain to her that most of our cartoons get aired in countries that have strict anti-gay laws, such as Russia and China, and not only would a cartoon with an openly gay couple get banned in those countries, but the entire network would get banned as well. Said network would lose all of its money and end up bankrupt. T didn't say anything. She just stared at her laptop and began typing something. I'm sure she was bitching on Tumblr about what a white cishet shitlord I was and how much I was oppressing her.

 

[GG Allin]

I've actually lost a friend to Tumblr recently, have a seat and grab a beer, cuz dis gon b long.

Seven years ago I met a really cool chick online, let's call her D. We got in touch through a site where you could post your stories and shitpost on a forum filled with teens and awful fandomfreaks. So we trolled the living shit out of that forum, gaining lots of haters, but also a lot of 'fans' who loved what we did. We were also into writing BDSM-stories, what left the little kids either whining or furiously masturbating. In 2011 we finally met and started to hang out alot, since she's only an hour away from me by train. After a while we were actually best friends and it stayed that way, until a few months ago: She discovered Tumblr.

Now, she knows I have always hated Tumblr and it's abominations, but she ignored my warnings and signed up for that hellhole anyway. She's a pro-fat feminist (also genderfluid/bisexual) now that believes that everything around BDSM is rape and abuse and is always yelling at me how I'm abusing my significant other by having a D/s-relationship with him. She also finds it unacceptable that he buys gifts for me, because I am a fierce womyn and I can take care of myself and buy gifts for myself, while she was only into BDSM for the money, because she's poor as shit and too lazy to get a fucking job. The only thing she does all day is smoke pot, browse Tumblr and find brainless faggots on Fetlife who will pay her fifteen bucks to jack themselves off while she insults them on cam. (No slurs of course!!1) She's also calling herself a sex worker because of this, and flips her shit when I say she's not. She starts spurging out an entire speech through her blubbery fat mouthpieces of how majestic she is and how men worship her because she's a fucking goddess and how I should shut the fuck up because I have thin privilege and I will never understand what her and her fat body go through. I don't even want to understand.

And pronouns. She want me to call her by her correct pronouns, but I refuse to, I will keep calling her 'she' and 'her'. So when I don't call her by her pronouns, she yells at me for being a cishet girl (even though I'm bi, but sure) and not understanding her gender and personality etc etc etc etc. Her pronouns are kye/kyr/kyne/kyrself. Oh, and to top the cake: She stealed a few of my panties and sold them to guys online, I found out when she proudly showed me her ad on some fucking sex ad site and those were clearly my panties. She doesn't even fit them, but puts them on anyway. She's sold three, I think. When I confronted her, she said that I left those panties there (I've been living there for a few weeks last year) and I'm rich enough to buy another pair, so she's entitled to them because she's poor. No, I'm not going to give you my fucking expensive lingerie because you're too lazy to get a job.

I've yet to break up contact because I actually feel sorry for her having no friends.

Spoiler

I probably forgot half of the shit she did and it's written like a fucking trainwreck but I am too tired and raging to type out a reasonable rant.

 

[AnOminous]

I've yet to break up contact because I actually feel sorry for her having no friends.

So was she a thief before dumblr or is that yet another "social justice" personality improvement?

 

[Techpriest]

The presentation started off pretty good, with me talking about how Lilith was viewed as a vampire-like demon by some cultures. Then T interrupted the presentation to ask me if I knew about Cain being a vampire. Her source for this? A video game.

Actually it's a tabletop game. Vampire the Masquerade. Cain is the first vampire, cursed to be such by god for killing Abel, and its his curse that is passed down from vampire to vampire.

What is it with SJW's and white wolf products anyway?

 

[TheMightyMonarch]

It sounds like this is a type of defense mechanism for your friend; creating an alternate persona for her to explore parts of herself she doesn't understand or isn't comfortable with expressing normally. This sort of thing isn't unprecedented. It's a way to put some emotional distance between yourself and your issues. It only becomes trouble when the line between fantasy and reality gets blurred or they live in the fantasy so much it becomes a detriment to real life.

Yeah, you're absolutely right. My mom (who also knows her very well, considering she's pretty much an honorary family member) said the same thing. Given her shitty sheltered and dysfunctional childhood, she is very emotionally stunned and doesn't know where to proceed in life. The line between reality and fantasy has always been blurred for her but it's gotten really bad in the last year or so. Being on Tumblr with likeminded people only with a psuedo social justice spin, I really should've seen this coming. But I didn't because deep down despite her issues, she's a very intelligent person. I feel like her "coming out" to me has broke the straw on the camel's back for me. I think she needs help and I want to help her, but I don't know how. Talking to her is like talking to a brick wall, not to mention that given my mental health history (and that she's seen me at my worst because of it), she won't take me seriously.

Anyway, I'll stop rambling now. This isn't the Coping thread anyway.

 

[Rin]

Actually it's a tabletop game. Vampire the Masquerade. Cain is the first vampire, cursed to be such by god for killing Abel, and its his curse that is passed down from vampire to vampire.

What is it with SJW's and white wolf products anyway?

White Wolf caters to the angsty loner crowd and the crowd that thinks they're deeper for playing roleplaying games that focus more on politicking than violence. They also tend to draw a lot on alternative religions and "exotic" cultures, which tend to be popular with SJWs as well. Plus, a lot of SJWs are female, and there are more girls playing White Wolf games. You'd think that Gypsy game would scare more of them away, but I suspect most of them wouldn't have even heard of it.

Personally, the worst example of a tabletop SJW was the dude who threw a fit about playing "We Be Goblins," a Pathfinder scenario where, as the astute among you might guess, the party plays as goblins. Goblins in Pathfinder are almost all crazy and retarded, with almost no morals, absolutely no common sense, and a taste for pyromania, and playing as them is a lot of fun if you really get into it. But this guy was offended because he felt that goblins were being stereotyped as evil so players had an excuse to kill them in normal games. Which isn't entirely wrong, but the whole point of the game is to let loose and revel in being an evil moron. He went off on some whole rant about how it's an excuse for the system to normalize violence against acceptable targets and stuff. I know after that I did my best to avoid playing in the same group as him, and I suspect some of the other people who were there for it did, too.