#this is perhaps a hotter take than i usually share on tumblr dot com

[ilovedthestars]

maybe it's just me, but i feel like i'm seeing a lot of posts lately where a reblog complains that the post has been marked with a "mature content" community label, with the implication that this is Unjust, and i'm like.......yeah? that feels reasonable for this post?

"mature content" does not mean "this post is Bad and Wrong," it just means it, like, talks about or depicts sex-related stuff in some detail. if your post is about sex or kink or something and it gets a mature content label, that's not persecution, that's just...a label. so it can be filtered by people who want to filter that stuff (and people who don't can turn the setting off).

i am willing to believe that the community labels are being applied disproportionately, and some things that maybe should have labels are getting by because they're more socially normative while queer stuff/etc is more strongly enforced. and if so, that's a problem. but that's a different problem than "someone put a mature content label on my post that talks about sex, which means they think it's Bad and Wrong"