#Neo-Puritans

[jemthecrystalgem]

I don’t like how neo-puritans have demonized the word “pleasure”

[gwydionmisha]

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[rum-inspector]

So tumblr has now rolled lives for my account too and reading their rules..

MIDDLE FINGER IS BANNED I REPEAT DO NOT FLIP THE BIRD on live IT IS VERY VERY BAD IT IS LITERALLY SAME AS IF YOU GOT FULLY NAKED AND WOOP WOOP HANKY PANKY BOJOINK WITH AN EQUALLY NUDE PARTNER ON THE STREAM I REPEAT HIDE YOUR MIDDLE FINGERS PUT THEM AWAY PUT THEN AWAY NOW A CHILD COULD SEE AN OBSCENE FINGER ON TUNGLR DOT COM

I realized from lot of tags and comments lot of you are unaware that the underlying issue is BIGGER than just tumblr. I even skipped the part about dress code bc its the same on every app now, nothing special unfortunately, the middle FINGER was news. you just never read the ToS and the reason is US LAWS, Credit card company monopoly, advertisers wanting everything to be "family friendly" etc and things are only going to get worse if you don't start opposing and repeling the torjan horse laws. Here, let's have someone who knows better explain it:

[foursaints]

as if your bostonianness was ever a secret…….

as if i would ever shut up about being a plaid-skirt-wide-headband new england nepotism baby.....

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

Look what I found plastered on a post with some fanart that I shall, apparently, not be interacting with...

There is something just so deeply tacky, rude, and fucking arrogantly entitled about this approach to existing in a fan space. It's exactly like slapping up "No Girlz Alowed" signs on your rickety treehouse in the woods.

I get that incest squicks people and I would never push it on anyone. I tag so folks can avoid it. And once I know that someone doesn't like it on their posts I am quite capable of not adding it to their posts while still appreciating and sharing their posts.

But this blanket statement forbidding me from interacting with them at all, regardless of whether I leave my ship out of the interaction or not, is neo-puitanical bullshit that has decided that how we enjoy our fiction is reason for ostracizing. It also puts the responsibility for managing this person's Tumblr experience on other people's shoulders rather than them doing to work of blocking tags and problematic blogs themselves.

[superectojazzmage]

Will literally never understand people who think “but you’re talking about kids media!!!!” is a good comeback to people rightfully complaining online about minors barging into adult spaces and screaming “GROOMER PEDO” at everyone. Like, it doesn’t matter if the conversation subject is a kids show, it’s still ADULTS SPEAKING TO OTHER ADULTS IN AN ENVIRONMENT AIMED AT ADULTS. Whether they’re conversation subjects are appropriate for kids or not is irrelevant, it’s still grown ass people conversing amongst themselves as adults. You’re on a website that used to have go nuts show nuts as an official policy for God’s sake.

Minors need to butt the fuck out and stay in spaces that are safe for them, because leaving aside the fact that adult spaces are not meant for them and can lead to them being exposed to things harmful for them, it can also end up getting the adults in those spaces traumatized or in serious legal trouble. You shouldn’t even be on Tumblr or going anywhere near online fandom spaces if you’re under 16 at least, so stay the tuck away from adults who are talking with other adults — online or off — and don’t fucking be trying to act all high and mighty about people talking about whatever the fuck they feel like.

And let’s not even get started on how the antis who encourage and say this kind of shit turn out to be creepers themselves 9 times out 10…

[lunaticobscurity]

firstly, if i have specifically searched for something (or more accurately, put "tumblr dot com /tagged/thing in the url bar because tumblr search is useless), then i definitely don't need protection from the results.

secondly, i'm so fucking sick of this misuse of language like "safe" and "protection". not just on this site but on the internet in general. seeing kink content or some nudity or even pictures or video of actual sex is not a hazard. we don't need protection from it.

[cto10121]

The Twilight anti fandom are definitely not beating the no reading comprehension allegations. No thoughts, head empty

[melodiesofmidnight]

One of the most unfortunate notions to have emerged from the afterbirth of the very odd resurgency of Puritanical morality (in regards specifically to literature as well as to fictive works of film and/or television) is the idea that characters must be inhuman in their goodness.

Not in that they must be angels, or that they must be without moral quandary, but that they must, in the end, transmute these struggles into redemption, or, at the very least, into qualities which render them more sympathetic than condemnable.

That, however, renders a disservice unto readers. As poetry, if one were to align one's views with Wordsworth, the purpose of a literary work is to contain "the spontaneous overflow of feelings," and thus to evoke such in those who consume it.

There must be catharsis. A good character is not so necessarily because he is morally good, or because he is an embodiment of our most noble and admirable traits (though well-written and well-rounded characters certainly can be so), or because he serves to bolster a work whose exigesis would extoll the virtues of a parable, but because he is deeply human; because he is multi-faceted; because he is flawed.

Humans are not paragons of virtue. To hold a character to the standards of perfection expected of martyrs is to divest the character of his humanity, and, thus, of his use to us. Characters do not need to be role models, or motivational, or inspirational, they simply must speak to our humanity.

It is dishonest to claim that humans (at least, those worthy of respecting, according to those braying the loudest within communal spaces that they have never experienced an incorrect thought, nor held a questionable belief, nor behaved in a way they would wish to keep from being broadcasted across the Internet) do not possess traits which are reflected in well-crafted, realistic characters: in Byronic heroes, in Romantic heroes, in Picaresque heroes, in anti-heroes, in the wicked, in the cruel, in the sadistic, in the mad.

It is necessary to recognise these traits within ourselves and to endeavour to become truly, intimately familiar with them. You must know the darkness of yourself as well as the light, if you truly wish to grow into a functional, kind, and well-balanced individual: you must learn to deal with your shadow. Those who pretend it does not exist within themselves often struggle the most with its existence, and often are the most easily consumed by it.

Characters who are darkly relatable to us, in their quickness to anger or in their sardonic, mean-spirited wit, or in their selfishness, or in their impulsiveness, or in their stubbornness, or in their wrath, are the most instructive in conveying the importance of goodness.

There must be catharsis. There must be purgation. We must see the darkness behind our eyes reflected in the faces of these characters, and we must see them fail because of it. We must see them hurt those they love because of it. We must see them lose everything because of it. We must see them destroy themselves because of it.

We must be allowed to explore the darkness of humanity within fiction, because it is that acknowledgement of darkness that allows us to wrestle with it, to know it, and to best it. No monster in the closet has ever been defeated by refusing to look it in the face and to name it. You cannot heal if you do not identify and treat the wound.

It is through the morally upright and the morally contemptible characters that we find traces of ourselves, and that we are allowed to proceed forward on the path to becoming the well-rounded, mature, and critical-thinking individuals we aspire to be. To continue to strike down 'problematic' content and characters is to sit beside the book burners of Fahrenheit 451, to worship Big Brother in 1984.

The good and the bad aspects of oneself must be explored in equal measure to grasp reality by the shoulders and to sit upon the throne of your identity, confident in the knowledge that your mastery of yourself and your answer to who am I? can never be shaken by outside forces.

The best and safest way to explore these aspects is within the sheltering confines of literature, of music, of film, of television, to see ourselves in the faces of others and to know what that means. To know what it means in others. To grow empathy and compassion and acknowledgement that all are human, all are imperfect, all are light, and all are dark -- and to not only acknowledge these facts, but to accept them as being inescapable, as being inherent, and as being okay.

[theefaggotamerica]

shame?? in MY sti diagnosis??? it's more likely than you think

[arcticlutra]

More people need to develop some critical thinking and media literacy skills.

I can like a piece of media, as a piece of media / story, and still find the themes or actions of characters within it reprehensible. Enjoyment of a story =/= condoning the actions of characters or the events / plot of a story.

Likewise I can appreciate and recognise the nuance and importance of a piece of media while still disliking said piece of media.

This isn't a zero-sum game. Oh, and just because a piece of media makes YOU uncomfortable doesn't instantly make it universally bad. It just makes you uncomfortable, and you should probably examine why before instantly calling for it to be banned.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[schizononagesimus]

you can tell a lot about a city by how much cigarettes cost

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

Hold on a second, folks. Gonna just fire off some property value decreasing shots...

[thank you reddit]

[samasmith23]

Wanna see one of the most hilarious Reddit threads in history? The disgraced former DC Comics writer turned Comicsgater, Chuck Dixon, was so blatantly homophobic & puritanically sex-negative in his behind-the-scenes comments, that artists working on his books at DC repeatedly made the art as intentionally queer-coded & homoerotic as possible, just to piss Dixon off!

That has got to be one of the most ingenious ways of trolling a bigot that I have ever heard of! The fantastic YouTuber Dane Whitman from “Actual Fandom/Forced Adversity” even covered this thread in detail on one of his livestreams!

So yeah, screw Chuck Dixon and happy Pride Month y’all!