#i dont care for gatekeeping cause its a super slippery slope | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

gifti3 · 1 year ago

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How do you form a group that is open and welcoming and supportive to everyone who feels like they need said support but also make sure it doesnt get "highjacked" by people who fall much closer to what is considered "acceptable"?

#i put the quotations on acceptable cause these things vary from person to person #for example what i consider tall might not be tall to the next person #anyways i saw something on reddit and it got me thinking #cause you wanna be positive and support this person but at the same time #you know most people would not consider them to fall into what the subreddit is about #even if thats how they feel #i dont care for gatekeeping cause its a super slippery slope #but also this whole thing kind of reminds me of the natural hair movement #and how the people with the type 4 hair end up being completely overshadowed #so yes all these people fall under natural hair but in the end the people who needed the movement the most dont feel represented at all now #it feels like a very hard balance to find #especially if someone feels insecure regardless #like what are u gonna tell them? that their feelings arent valid?#that they arent enough of (blank) to be here?#thats not very helpful at all #i feel so conflicted about these things sometimes #especially when u see people who are conventional getting a bunch of support but someone who isnt not getting the same #so then people are like “okay maybe we need to make a more specific subreddit!”#the people that are considered more conventional in that group start to to overshadow now #rinse and repeat #idkkk feels like its gonna be over and over until you have very very specific requirements #i think in some cases specific subreddits are useful but when does it become too specific???#and then you also have to deal with the mindset of 'us vs them' setting in #i think it just comes down to us living in a society yall #whoever is closer to conventional will be easily supported #all you can do is challenge your own individual views #be the change u (hopefully) wanna see #okay i wanna go eat so imma stop talking now #turning off reblogs cause i do not want this to end up on the wrong side of tumblr 🙁#im just thinking too much and trying to get it out of my mind

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