Encounters With SJWs/Tumblristas Offline or In Unusual Communities

[Johnny 13 gun]

I actually had a pretty bad encounter this past Friday. I'm going to have to powerlevel a little here, since it's essential to what this tumblr girl said to me. I'm in college and have recently been diagnosed with a terminal autoimmune disease. I haven't been making it to class as much as I used to. My teachers are fine with this, as they know my situation, but legally they cannot explain to the class/classmates I've talked to why I have not been in class.

Thus, when I felt well enough to actually show up to class on Friday, I was bombarded with questions from one girl in particular. This girl was pretty typical--she dyed her hair weird colors, proposed that we kill all men multiple times in class (it's a sociology of gender class), and did her entire final project on Steven Universe where she claimed that the show broke down every gender role possible and had absolutely no flaws. She ran a tumblr blog and knew that I liked to write and also used tumblr to some extent. She was also all about body-positivity, but to an extreme. You know, like the typical 'everyone should be proud of their bodies no matter what [thing] they have!'

So, girl bombards me with questions as soon as I walk into class. I clearly look terrible and ill, because it's fucking logical that I do, so her immediate question is "ARE YOU SICK???" I answered yes and prepared to move on with my life, but this girl would not give up. She kept questioning and questioning until I finally told her that I'm severely sick with something that is affecting everything I do, and I asked her to please shut up about it because it's been hard for me to accept. Cue the reaction that nearly made me slap this girl in the face.

She immediately spewed the typical tumblr bullshit. Her exact words were "You should be proud of your diagnosis! There's nothing bad about being chronically ill! Don't put down others that are ill by saying that it's bad!" I'm just going to leave it at that, because it's pretty fucking obvious why I was fuming.

 

[Tame Sake]

holy fucking shit, the amount of willpower you possess to not absolutely bitchslap her for that is close to godly!

I would LOVE to see this bitch visit cancer patients and claim that they should be PROUD they're terminally ill! Fucking hell, this is why Self-Diagnosis needs to stop being celebrated. These people have no idea how serious legitimate illness is. It's not an accessory like your shitty hair dye.

 

[IceGray]

That's awful! She doesn't get what it's truly like to be ill.

 

[HG 400]

Someone actually unironically called me a "shitlord" in person today!

I burst out laughing.

Full story or gtfo.

 

[Ariel]

Full story or gtfo.

Yeah we need to know all the details of this Crucial Danger SJW situation.

 

[Positron]

I would LOVE to see this bitch visit cancer patients and claim that they should be PROUD they're terminally ill! Fucking hell, this is why Self-Diagnosis needs to stop being celebrated. These people have no idea how serious legitimate illness is. It's not an accessory like you're shitty hair dye.

A disease is not an identity; it is a problem to be solved or at least ameliorated.

 

[AnOminous]

Full story or gtfo.

Too spergy and powerlevely. It came out of absolutely nowhere, though, as politics wasn't even being discussed. I'd bungled a joke and offended the person and actually apologized at first, but then they flipped out and said you're still a shitlord. I was flabbergasted as I'd never heard anyone say that irl and even online nobody says it unironically.

Luckily it's nobody I'll ever have to deal with again, as it would be impossible to ever take them seriously.

No danger hair or any other signs that this kind of outburst was coming.

 

[Mars Attacks!]

A former roommate of mine who has a lot of real-life oppression points due to being a tr*ns woman of color. Over the past year or so she's started making long Facebook statuses full of Tumblr buzzwords. It would be one thing if she was talking specifics but she'll literally just say things like "so sick of this cis-centric white-centric male-centric society and it's oppression/transmisogyny/racism." Before she got into the SJW thing she was still a professional victim. Always had to one-up anyone around her by saying that whatever their problem was, hers was way worse. I remember a time when we still lived together, I came home and said I was tired and she launched into a rant about how she worked SO much harder than me and was SO MUCH MORE TIRED. She worked half the hours I did at the time.

 

[Wallace]

She immediately spewed the typical tumblr bullshit. Her exact words were "You should be proud of your diagnosis! There's nothing bad about being chronically ill! Don't put down others that are ill by saying that it's bad!" I'm just going to leave it at that, because it's pretty fucking obvious why I was fuming.

I think she was trying to be supportive… in the same way that politicians who take pictures of themselves with starving children are supportive.

 

[Fleshy Sanik]

I have an acquaintance from my old university that has gotten more and more sjw-ish over the last year. When i got to know him he would be approachable and open to talk about anything but lately he has started writing long rambling articles about issues in a university he really should have graduated from by now.

The thing is, the articles he writes makes very little sense. One of them was about how the board of directors are mostly white men and how that would place the program for getting more women into engineering at risk (spoiler alert, it got voted through with 92.5% in favour).
Another one was about the issue of gender neutral bathrooms on campus, clearly inspired by the north carolina debate, the issue here being that: A) we are not even on the same continent as north caeolina and B) all bathrooms at campus save two are already gender neutral... It is all very surreal.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

My ex went SJW... not while we were together, but several years later. I could see the seeds of it being planted when I knew her, though. There was one particularly disturbing conversation we had, where she said, and I quote "If I had to choose between being seen naked by a man who could rape me, or a woman who might judge me for how my body looks, I'd choose the man every time."

... reeeeaaaaallly puts their whole rape fixation into perspective, doesn't it?

 

[Yamyam]

I found this today and this is gold

 

[friedshrimp]

"If you took the time to learn about the culture."

You confuse five with four.

 

[magikarp]

Holy hot damn, I almost don't want to believe someone can be that dumb.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

Wow, they chose the one character in Star Wars who ISN'T an exaggerated ethnic stereotype and ran with that shit. Good times.

 

[P.F.H.]

Goddammit they are all retarded, May 5th isn't Mexican independence day, it's the aniversary of the battle of Puebla...Independence day is September 16th...
I love how these kids try to 'defend' a culture they don't even know...

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Goddammit they are all retarded, May 5th isn't Mexican independence day, it's the aniversary of the battle of Puebla...Independence day is September 16th...
I love how these kids try to 'defend' a culture they don't even know...

This x 100. Or as my husband calls it "fuck the French day".

 

[ZehnBoat]

"If you took the time to learn about the culture."

You confuse five with four.

Maybe if they used nahuatl instead of evil European language!

 

[Guardian G.I.]

Very late reply, but whatever.

I follow the post-apocalyptic webcomic "Stand Still, Stay Silent." The comic itself is great, but the fandom is full of Tumblrinas. A discussion on the fan forum had people outright calling the artist a an "unintentional racist" for not including any POCs, despite the fact that it's set in Scandinavia. Diversity capital of the world, dontcha know? Link to full discussion: https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=453.0

These people don't understand how intermarriage and assimilation work. If there are any 'POC' left after 90 years of post-apocalypse, they will be 1/4 black or whatever at the very best.
Concerning the fanbase: they are surprisingly civil by Tumblrina standards. I think that's because there aren't many Americans there - a significant part of the fanbase is from Northern and Central Europe.

 

[Wafflez]

Ran into some SJWs in Japan. Most weren't weeaboos. Weeaboo and SJW doesn't go together well cuz cultural appropriation, feminism and all the hoohah. One got arrested for shoving a police officer.