We NEED to reevaluate how we view people with "red flags" that don't actually indicate harm to anyone. Things like "doesn't like animals," "doesn't have pets," "my pets immediately distrust them, so that means they're Secretly Evil."
I have a psychotic disorder. I suffer from flat affect. I have zero control over how I am emoting, and very often my emotional readout is completely blank. A LOT of animals (dogs especially) have exhibited aggression and fear around me ever since this started. (There are only TWO dogs I've met in the last five years that didn't BITE ME.) Dogs are unsettled by me because of a symptom of my psychosis--a condition that is out of my control that IS NOT DANGEROUS and doesn't harm anyone.
I also have a severe autoimmune disease and severe allergies to basically all animals. Whenever I tell people I can't come over because they have pets, or I don't have/want pets of my own, the IMMEDIATE response I always get is "why don't you like animals?" So I'm always pretty pissed off when I have to say, "I'm severely allergic. Don't fucking assume I have an undesireable quality just because I'm not a pet owner."
Another ableist red flag we need to talk about is "has no other friends/all their friends break up with them." Hi. I'm physically disabled with a digestive disease and a degenerative disease in my spine. That means my dietary restrictions are stupid and I can't sit/stand/walk for more than 15 minutes without being in pain. Most of the friends I break up with, I do so BECAUSE THEY ARE INCREDIBLY ABLEIST TO ME with no visible potential of changing. From people relentlessly harrassing me about lifestyle changes to not accepting correction or feedback when I tell them "hey, you CAN'T do x because it triggers y condition." If they argue or blow me off, I'm not their fucking friend!
Tl;dr: Disabled, chronically ill, and people with "scary" mental illnesses are often lumped in with "bad people" for characteristics that hurt no one and aren't in their control. Stop using "my dog is uncomfortable around them" as a litmus test for everyone you hang out with.
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Hey tumblr maybe instead of flagging queer people’s posts you could take down ai art of celebrities nudes which they did not consent to, from the TRENDING page.
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some people are so chronically online they cannot separate fiction vs reality. this is not about anything specific however it is a lot of issues mixed together.
i know a lot of people hear the word “chronically online” and tune out but hear me out. a lot of teenagers and preteens nowadays and even some millennials have been so absorbed in this world of the internet where you constantly feel like you have to fight for things that you feel is right that you start to go tunnel vision and ignore genuine, actual issues.
i will see people actively throw whole ass tantrums over fictional. content. whether it is a show, a movie, a game, or fan content.
people will try to “cancel” or even threaten a voice actor who plays as a villain, and this has happened!!! so many times!!!!
if a show includes a homophobic/transphobic/racist character, that does not make the show morally bad. if those bad actions are condemned in the show, that is the creators saying “hey this thing is bad and is frowned upon”. that does not give you or anyone the right to go after the creators or actors of the show.
“but how could they be okay with playing that character?” because they can separate fiction. from reality. they know they themselves do not agree with those morals, they are simply playing a character.
if you focus so much time and energy into putting people down over something fictional you are going to ignore what actual issues are occurring in the world.
i have seen an artist on twitter have the police called on them because One Person didnt like something they drew and also hated them for drawing gore. drawing gore harms absolutely no one, i promise. and if you personally believe it does, guess what? you can instead choose to give a shit about actual people who non-consensually hurt real life people. wow, imagine that. contribute to real world politics and making changes, stop cancelling people on twitter bc they drew something you didnt like. stop hating on people who like a media you don’t like.
“if you like x you are a bad person” me liking a show about gay hell demons does not make me a bad person. me liking a show, movie, etc with villains who are terrible people does not make me a bad person. imagine that?
you do not know what people do outside of the internet. you don’t know what charities they may donate to, you don’t know what race, gender, or sexuality they are (unless they say it online). you don’t know what causes they fight for. you don’t. know. and doing One thing that you don’t like does not doom them for all eternity. i guarantee you no one outside the internet gives a shit about someone liking gay porn of problematic characters. or a show with morally questionable people. or a fanfiction author who writes guro smut.
please stop ignoring real world issues in favor of fictional shit. adopt the classic saying “if you don’t like, scroll.”
remember, censoring things you don’t like is exactly what nazis did! don’t be that way, yeah?
The Old Man (Mar 2, 2024)
If you ever cross my path. I'm so sorry in advance. please just let me be me!! i'm only in my twenties and i'm already in crisis ! i'm being followed by the OPERATOR. 🇨🇦🚩🚩CANADIAN🚩🚩🇨🇦
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