Encounters With SJWs/Tumblristas Offline or In Unusual Communities

[kittie]

I go to an art school. Brightly colored hair, bad eyebrows, and those granny glasses that tumblrinas like so much are everywhere. Lots of people wear ugly 2edgy4u tumblr-eqsue clothing as well.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Reading Dan Savage today:

Spoiler

I’m a gay male college student in a healthy D/s relationship with a bisexual guy. My boyfriend posts pictures of our kink sessions to his Tumblr. (No faces.) A trans woman active in campus queer politic confronted me today. Ze had seen my boyfriend’s Tumblr (!) and recognized me (!!!). Ze demanded I stop engaging in BDSM because ze has to see me on campus and knowing my boyfriend “controls and abuses” me is triggering for zir. Ze said images of me in medical restraints were particularly traumatizing. Ze was shaking and crying, and I wound up comforting zir. I stupidly let zir think I would stop. Now what?

Scenario Utterly Bananas

P.S. Ze also threatened to out my boyfriend if ze saw new pictures go up on his Tumblr. My boyfriend is already out — about being bi and being kinky — so he laughed it off. But how fucked up is that?

You tell this woman you take orders from your boyfriend, SUB, not from random campus nutcases. You advise zir to stay away from Tumblr porn ze finds traumatizing. And if ze pushes back, you explain to zir that if anyone’s being controlling and abusive here, it’s zir. And if ze starts shaking and crying, SUB, direct zir to the student health center.

And for your own protection, SUB, tell zir all of this with at least one witness present. Document everything, and if ze keeps getting in your face about your consensual, nonabusive D/s relationship, take the ironic step of filing a restraining order against zir.

(I'll forgive the "ze" and "zir" at least in this case, after what he dealt with)

 

[AnOminous]

Reading Dan Savage today:

Savage talks sense as usual. Funny society has changed enough that someone like that is now not only the equivalent of Dear Abby but is considered a horrible, privileged shitlord by SJWs.

 

[Anonimo]

Just recently, I realized that feminism is a hot button topic in the theatre department at college. Some friends of mine were talking about it in the green room when I walked in and one of them said he thought that "everyone should be a feminist and if you're not then just get out."*** I walked out to get away from a highly politicized discussion and then I was questioned about it. I tried to be as respectful as I could, saying that "I don't identify as a feminist." So then another one of my friends asked me if I believed the sexes should be equal, and when I answered yes, she told me I was a feminist. I tried to counter, suggesting that there is probably more to feminism than just that. I added that I don't identify as a feminist because I don't really know enough about the movement to really call myself one. Again they persisted that "equality = feminism" and I said that I thought that was egalitarianism...bad move. So then another one brings up the "77 cents on the dollar" argument and I said I thought that was debunked*. I was getting increasingly uncomfortable, so I decided to just leave the room until things quieted down and said nothing more.

Among other things, these students were talking about how "feminism" was smart and were talking about how one of my classmates held "wrong views".** I heard voices on my way out, so I'm almost certain that I'm now guilty of having "wrong views." Honestly, I was feeling a little betrayed since I considered some of these people friends of mine. I was thinking about taking a more neutral stance, rejecting the rhetoric of self important "antis", and deciding that I needed to focus more of my energy into what I actually liked. I don't think it's unreasonable to believe in equality without labeling yourself this or this. One of my professors was talking about this with another student, and probably found the closest thing to a moderate in the theatre department.

*Despite starting to reject the rhetoric of antis like Sargon, I couldn't help but think back to Christina Hoff Sommers and her take on this issue. Even then I've been questioning anything that tries to call itself "Factual", including Sommers' The Factual Feminist, as much as it interested me.

**I don't know what his "wrong" views are, and I don't think its a good idea to ask him, but I'll at least give him the benefit of the doubt. Mainly because I'm not terribly fond of people talking about a person like that behind his back.

***I mentioned this person in the main SJW thread as someone who said you can educate people, but you can't get them to change their opinions. Though after that discussion, I'm questioning if he really believed that.

 

[kittie]

I've noticed there's a surprisingly high number of SJWs on Polyvore who use fashion collages to try and make political statements. They really started crawling out of the woodwork and chimping out when Polyvore implemented the separation of the "fashion" category into "women's fashion" and "men's fashion" a while back.

 

[Positron]

Just recently, I realized that feminism is a hot button topic in the theatre department at college. Some friends of mine were talking about it in the green room when I walked in and one of them said he thought that "everyone should be a feminist and if you're not then just get out."

Situation like that is when you should just say "uh-uh" whenever they try to talk to you, while silently note which cunt you should avoid because she would cry rape if you look at her wrong.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I tend to be able to avoid SJWs now that this semester is mostly economics courses but when I talked about gendered labour last semester the entire class was furious at the suggestion that men and women may have different opportunity costs of breastfeeding and giving birth

 

[friedshrimp]

I once knew a guy in my class that used to dress in a semi punk-like fashion (not outright punk, but a deviation). He seemed cool at first...Then he went on and on sperging about Animal Farm and how we're all slaves of society or whatever.

Last I knew of him, he was bitching on Facebook about american police brutality and #blacklivesmatter (despite not even being American/having lived in America). Blocked him right there.

 

[Vorhtbame]

Finally remembered one worth mentioning.

There's a woman in my gaming group who's got many Tumblrina hallmarks: she insists she's not female despite having given birth at least once, neopagan, self-diagnosed with four or five conflicting disorders, poly, BDSM, and quite a bit overweight. (She's also a roleplayer, so I'm not sure if she's got any kintypes.)

Well, one day we all of us were carrying on in our chatroom when I jokingly called someone a "philistine". Tumblrina asked what that was, so I explained. She remained confused--"why is it called that? Sounds like 'Palestinian'"--and I also explained who/what the Philistines were (though I left off the controversy about whether it was a single tribe versus a blanket term for non-Israelite tribes a la "barbarian").

She immediately got in an almighty huff about using a "racist" term. Even after everyone assured her that whoever the Philistines were, they are no more, she still insisted that we had no business "using hurtful language" and needed to come up with something new, like maybe "douchebag".

We had another fun episode wherein I had to explain, in painful and grinding detail, why West Germanic is not the same thing as New High German (modern German language), only to have her inform me that it doesn't matter; they're all Nazis anyway.

 

[Argonian Scum]

It baffles me that those types will sperg about feminism and the harm of gender roles all day, then insist that their nawnbinareee discomfort with being a woman and self-loathing masochistic fetishes are 100% natural and have absolutely nothing to do with cultural conditioning.

 

[Meowthkip]

It baffles me that those types will sperg about feminism and the harm of gender roles all day, then insist that their nawnbinareee discomfort with being a woman and self-loathing masochistic fetishes are 100% natural and have absolutely nothing to do with cultural conditioning.

If you point that out to them, though, they get super huffy.

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

It baffles me that those types will sperg about feminism and the harm of gender roles all day, then insist that their nawnbinareee discomfort with being a woman and self-loathing masochistic fetishes are 100% natural and have absolutely nothing to do with cultural conditioning.

Look, I'm willing to believe that non-binary might be a thing, but most of the people who are claiming to be non-binary don't have dysphoria at all whatsoever and are usually claiming to be such because gender roles and even flat-out misogyny in some cases (looking at you Springtrapp). While sex/gender dysphoria is an actual thing, not liking sexist/tradtional gender roles does not mean you have sex/gender dysphoria of any sorts and the fact that some of these same transtrenders are reinforcing the gender roles that they so claim to despise is rather hypocritical.

 

[TiredConlanger]

Had an encounter with a Tumblrina type recently and was debating whether or not to post. Imagine a fat blonde chick with "problem glasses" and her college's sweats. Now imagine she starts yelling at you when you tell her the policy regarding separate bills at a restaurant and she threatens to bring children in that will "destroy" the place. She, by the way, did not have children with her. She also acted like an entitled bitch the whole time and going on about how the lady behind her while driving nearly cutting her off or something stupid like that. Said lady, by the way, had also come to eat, she was nice, and she was asking a higher up about complaining about other customers. To complain about the Tumblrina, I might add. To be honest, I was surprised to see a Tumblrina in the wild on a Saturday night.

 

[Vorhtbame]

Had an encounter with a Tumblrina type recently and was debating whether or not to post. Imagine a fat blonde chick with "problem glasses" and her college's sweats. Now imagine she starts yelling at you when you tell her the policy regarding separate bills at a restaurant and she threatens to bring children in that will "destroy" the place. She, by the way, did not have children with her. She also acted like an entitled bitch the whole time and going on about how the lady behind her while driving nearly cutting her off or something stupid like that. Said lady, by the way, had also come to eat, she was nice, and she was asking a higher up about complaining about other customers. To complain about the Tumblrina, I might add. To be honest, I was surprised to see a Tumblrina in the wild on a Saturday night.

People like this used to get invited never to return under threat of prosecution.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

Someone had to start a thread about it. I'll lead us off.

Are you familiar with Age of Empires 2? It's considered by many to be the best game in the series, and has had two expansions for it, both of which are quite good. For the uninitiated, AOE2 is a "historical FPS" that players use various civilizations in to fight it out in multiplayer or campaign settings, the campaigns focusing on historical events like Genghis Khan's conquests through Asia or the Spanish fighting the Aztecs in the Americas. At no point is the game considered edutainment or even educational, it's just got a backdrop of historical context and usually sets itself up quite well for it. This is a game where colonial-era Spanish can fight the Viking Hordes in Texas. Each civilization in the game though has a lengthy list of informative entries in the in-game glossary explaining their historical significance, rise, and fall. It's pretty cool overall.

Enter Tumblr.

Play AOE2 nowadays, and you will, almost without exception, encounter these faggots on forums and even the official site's blog posts. Suddenly you have assholes complaining about how setting the comp-controlled allies to be Moors in the El Cid campaign for the Spanish is somehow cultural appropriation, or how Dracula in the Slavs campaign being listed as a Magyar unit in the intro (something done for scripting convenience) is an attempt to impugn upon people of color.

Unfortunately, Tumblr is not aware of this game's popularity, and least of all how defensive its almost /tg/-ish dedicated fanbase is. So when Tumblr-style posts about AOE2 being problematic started to pop up frequently, most AOE2 communities reacted in the way they always had to any invading force:

...With a barrage of WOLOLO jokes.

Some asshole post about AOE2 discriminating against people of color? WOLOLO, YOU'RE GREEN TEAM NOW. It's the ultimate, retarded countermeasure, wherein SocJus morons just won't be able to get a foot in the door. WOLOLO on, you magnificent fuckers.

AOE2 -- this was the first computer game I bought for myself back in 1999. I remember it fondly, and the soundtrack is catchy.

BTW it is a war game, why do SJWs play it at all? When you aim is to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women, you don't think much about checking your privilege.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

AOE2 -- this was the first computer game I bought for myself back in 1999. I remember it fondly, and the soundtrack is catchy.

BTW it is a war game, why do SJWs play it at all? When you aim is to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women, you don't think much about checking your privilege.

In AOE 1 most of the sides are POCs and in AOE 2 there are quite a few sides that are POCs (but no black sides)

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Recently moved back to my old hometown after college, and my old friends are gradually turning into Tumblrites. They spam trans scene terms like "cisheteronormativity", gush over some lesbian bondage comic, and won't shut about about BDSM culture. Powerlevel: one of them even said I need to "come out" as asexual after my last relationship didn't pan out.

I'm dealing with more of this stuff now than I ever did when I attended a four-year university. Let that sink in.

AOE2 -- this was the first computer game I bought for myself back in 1999. I remember it fondly, and the soundtrack is catchy.

BTW it is a war game, why do SJWs play it at all? When you aim is to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women, you don't think much about checking your privilege.

SJW's don't actually consume media. Outside of a few screencaps or panels they reblog as either problematic or powerful, most of them don't actually read books, watch tv/movies, or play video games. Doing so takes them away from tumblr and Twitter for too long.

 

[friedshrimp]

So the other day I went out with friends, and we found a rather strange set of tourists. All americans in their 20s (based on their accent and the fact that they spoke english), they wore "in" clothes and one carried one of those fancy new phones. They were complaining about vacationing on our country and how it was "too white", therefore it was also racist.

I don't get SJWs. if they were sooo oppressed they wouldn't have money to buy fancy phones, or travel to other countries, or be allowed to have a pretentious hipster attitude...They also have this attitude of ranting against other countries due to how racist/sexist they are; one thing is to rant against your country, but to go around and insult another one just based on misconceptions you have...

It's funny because they only have this attitude with North America/Europe. Send one of these shitters to South America or Africa, and they'll be praising the Lord...Until they're robbed or assaulted by the local thug/gangs. They'd still find ways to blame "whitey" for it though.

 

[Trucute]

Started running into them on Guild Wars 2 of all places. I'm a lazy ass casual who hangs around the starting areas for crafting and it always seems to happen in the Sylvari zone.

The first one was a radical feminist guild that was only open to trans people and no cis people were allowed. I have a screenshot of this one actually I'll probably edit this later. But the guild ad just read like something I'd find on tumblr as it started talking about hating cis people.

The second instance was just weird. Total circlejerk about how the game was catering to racists as Jennah never wore shoes and somehow saying that such was trashy is what the racist game creators wanted. And that if you don't like her you're racist.

I've since then learned to just stay in high level areas because none of those whiny tumblrinas never reach that point.

 

[kittie]

Started running into them on Guild Wars 2 of all places. I'm a lazy ass casual who hangs around the starting areas for crafting and it always seems to happen in the Sylvari zone.

The first one was a radical feminist guild that was only open to tranny people and no cis people were allowed. I have a screenshot of this one actually I'll probably edit this later. But the guild ad just read like something I'd find on tumblr as it started talking about hating cis people.

The second instance was just weird. Total circlejerk about how the game was catering to racists as Jennah never wore shoes and somehow saying that such was trashy is what the racist game creators wanted. And that if you don't like her you're racist.

I've since then learned to just stay in high level areas because none of those whiny tumblrinas never reach that point.

Radical feminsts actually don't like transgender people, especially transgender women. You probably just ran into your average tumblrina who was particularly passionate about feminism.