Why I’m So Angry

catwinchester:

quickienewyork:

I’m trying to calm down enough to get some of this out, but it’s difficult. I’m angry. And while I’m angry for a whole lot of reasons, the one big one that stands out is the one Tumblr and Apple would really like us to ignore.

So I’ll try to be as clear and concise as I can.

Both Apple and Tumblr are more comfortable with violence than sex.

It sounds simple, but the truth is more terrifying.

They are explicitly saying that they find a gif of someone being decapitated less offensive than the nipples of a woman.

When someone tells you their values, you should believe them.

Tumblr and Apple are saying that they are more comfortable with images of swastikas (an image which unequivocally advocates genocide) than they are with a naked human body.

Let that sink it. It’s not a fluke or a meaningless and unrelated result of a content policy change. It’s what they firmly believe.

When someone tells you their values, you should believe them.

Tumblr and Apple (and most other US companies to be sure) believe that mass murder, serial killings, rape, eye gouging, strangling, mutilation, child abuse, and a thousand other graphic images, videos, and GIFS are more acceptable to them than a nipple.

When someone tells you their values, you should believe them.

When we culturally decide (which have done forever) that violence is more acceptable than sex, then we create a culture which is more acceptance of violence than it is sex.

Which means that more people will die because that is exactly what happens when you suppress sexuality and glorify violence.

And Tumblr and Apple know this and they do not care.

When someone tells you their values, you should believe them.

I rather liked that I could share a random sexy gif, just like I share adult things with other adults in real life. 

I mean, that naked men running gif, with penises flopping everywhere, is funny! So is that penis stage show gif, or synchronised penis flopping!! 

Now I’ll have to go back to PMing my friends that grown up sort of content. 

But I’ll bet I could share a gif from Hostel (that nasty, sadistic horror film) and no one in management would bat an eyelid. 

Western morals are so fucked up.