"I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave."
You hear an obnoxious laugh and you turn to see a 5'7" blonde haired girl. (you roughly estimated her actual height because currently she is in heels) You think "ugh what is so funny, bitch?" and you listen in - "OMG I REBLOGGED THAT TOO" you roll your eyes so far back into your head you faint.
"hello? hey? are you okay?" your eyes open to see that girl again. ugh. You'll give her a chance. She did just help you after you fainted. By the end she seemed okay - so you asked for her info. She gave you a business card that read;
The second girl at least read the book to confirm that it was shit, she even had Capote on deck as backup. Chick 1 is just lazy
Nope. Girl 2 saw that Girl 1′s absolutely accurate analysis was being shut down just because it wasn’t stated in an intellectual way (in spite of its validity). So Girl 2 reinforced Girl 1′s opinions in solidarity and made sure that it was absolutely clear that Girl 1 was factually correct. WITHOUT taking credit for her observations (”kim is right” instead of “Actually, kim”)
Girls supporting Girls.
Girls not letting other girls be treated poorly.
If you read thirty pages of a book and hate it, that’s a good analysis. Girl 1 literally said, “It sucked for these reasons, and I only got through 30 pages.” She was absolutely paying attention and trying to get it. But if all you get is a headache, fuck that book.
Tumblr’s “walking on eggshells” and “one strike, you’re out” mentality is really really immature.
Reblog if ya agree.
Another unpopular opinion:
The “You can apologize, beg for forgiveness, and change your ways all you want but it won’t change a thing cause you’re still horrible vile trash that deserves to die a fiery death” mentality is really harmful, scary, disgusting, and will probably get someone killed, be it by someone else’s hand or their own
yet another unpopular opinion: the ‘unproblematic fav’ mentality is really bad because you’re putting an individual up on a pedestal and treating them like a deity of sorts and forgetting that they too are human beings and make mistakes.
Another unpopular opinion: Not every mistake is the Worst Thing Ever. Sometimes people make small mistakes, and sometimes ignorance is a small mistake, and they do not need to grovel and beg and apologize perfectly because in the scheme of things it was a small mistake that didn’t even seriously hurt anyone, outside of tumblr’s performative moral outrage being offended.
These are all extremely valid unpopular opinions.
here’s Another unpopular opinion: when someone becomes successful the need to rifle through someone’s pasts posts/tweets/Facebook post to find the One Thing™️ they did wrong and shame them then lead a witch hunt for their coerce apology. Followed by working to destroy their future needs to stop. People say dumb and ignorant things, but can learn from them. There are certainly people who don’t, and they should be held accountable. But more often than not the ones that are dragged are people who said/wrote something bad once or twice back at a time when they were a different person. Tumblr and now twitter need to learn that people do change, and usually the bigotry is environmental.
Digging through someone’s past to find that One Thing™️ to drag them about and cripple their future shows more about the digger than the person they’re attacking. Jealousy is the most vile thing in this world.
So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history.
Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service.
