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Hey there to all of my lovely followers. I don’t often let things get to me but i’m pissed off and venting.
I’ve just posted a copy of my letter over on Twitter but I rarely use the site so don’t have many followers to help circulate it. If any of you could also circulate it there, who knows? Our frustrations might start to get taken seriously by people who can actually influence the owners of this site.
Look, i’m not stupid. I know it’s probably a long shot but as I said earlier, i’m not going without a fight. I’ve spent years curating this blog, making edits and meeting new people. I don’t want to lose that. The fact that Tumblr keeps muting blogs and isn’t even showing us flagged content any longer seems to be a cynical ploy, but in actuality is probably because – as with everything else – they unexpected the reaction to their guideline changes.
So, if you *do* get to see this post and have twitter, please help us get this out to more people. Much love ❤
Don’t have Twitter but reblog the heck out of this.
When I was 10, my mom made me wear a bra and it felt like a punishment for being different.
When I was 10, I took the bra off when changing for gymnastics and accidentally dropped it in the school hallway. A teacher picked it up and said, “Oh, this must belong to you” and handed it back to me in front of everyone. I quit gymnastics.
When I was 11, I thought maybe the boobs would be okay so long as they didn’t get any bigger than would fit in my hand, so I kept measuring it, but they did.
When I was 12, I started wearing two or three sports bras to smush them down, until one day a classmate said, “Are you wearing two bras?!” while laughing.
When I was 13, a boy told me he wanted to squeeze my boobs “until they popped.”
When I was 14, I got cast in a play as an older character and a classmate told me I got the role because I had boobs.
When I was 17, my mom told me to return a swimsuit because it would be too distracting for my boyfriend’s father.
When I was 21, I got properly fitted for a bra and everyone felt the need to tell me how much better my boobs looked.
When I was 26, I got pregnant and my immediate fear was that my boobs would get bigger.
When I was 28, I got shamed for trying to feed my screaming baby in public without a cover.
When I was 28, people asked me “why are you bothering to use a breastfeeding cover?”
When I was 30, people gave me weird looks that I wasn’t yelling at my kid for putting their hand on my boob.
When I was 31, I avoided going to the beach or pool because I didn’t want to have to deal with boobs in a swimsuit.
When I was 32, I got asked, again, “why don’t you get a breast reduction?”
When I was 33, I watched a 5yo girl get shamed for running around in sweltering heat without a shirt on and had to reprimand a bunch of tween boys who thought it was okay to shame her for doing something they do all the time.
When I was 34, my kid kept patting my breast and saying “Mommy’s squishy breast!!” They will never see me express any shame about tits, because I want them to have a different mindset than I had. Yes, boobs are nice! They’re squishy! They’re fun! That’s the end of that.
I’m 35 and no longer give a fuck. I don’t care anymore. As a teenager my tits were covered in stretch marks. They’ve been engorged with milk. My nipple changed shape with pregnancy. Give it another couple decades and my breasts will probably be all wrinkly. It’s sexual when I’m using it sexually. I don’t fucking care, and I won’t be ashamed anymore.
Every time a policy or cultural hangup treats people with breasts differently, it fucks us over.
Tumblr’s new policy makes an active choice to participate in this culture of shame. By classifying “female-presenting nipples” as explicit material, Tumblr has taken a stance that any chest or breast that differs from a male default is worthy of shame and unavoidably sexual. The idea that breasts are shameful and unavoidably sexual is exactly what fucked me up for so much of my life.
If this hellsite website gets shut down I will be very disappointed because this is the closest I’ve ever been to popular even though it’s like sitting at the cool table at a mental hospital
okay im going through the rules and stuff on matsodon rn and
sexworkers are good here as long as what they post is tagged. the gore thing is :// but like the person said sexworkers are supported here.
all of this. all of this is hot as hell.
they actually have specific rules disallowing pedophiles and nazis+the terfs from the last screenshot.
dogpiling and harrassment and stalking is listed as a no go thank fucking god??
there is not one specific staff account as each member of staff has their own thing so it’d be most likely easier to get in touch with them
and the best part
a peek at the list of blocked domains?
ive legit been on this site for ten minutes and i feel safer on this site than ive ever been on tumblr. again im not like, leaving tumblr but this place is nice as hell.
here is a link so that you can download your blog and posts, and history ect. If you’re concerned at all about the Tumblr Purge (#TumblrFUCKEDup) then download your blog as a ZIP file as a precaution.
Please share so that everyone has a chance to prepare:
Even if it doesn’t affect you it may hurt someone you know, or Follow, or someone who Follows you: and we all want to keep our hard work and time as something meaningful (you know, before Tumblr got petty AF.)
Be a good bro and share plz! Information is power!
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