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banrionceallach) wrote2018-12-08 05:00 pm
banrionceallach) wrote2018-12-08 05:00 pm
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On the subject of Tumblr
So a thing I've been noticing, apropos of nothing, is that all the 'tumblr refugees' I've seen so far are skewing way towards women in their late 20s and 30s who are involved in transformative works a.k.a. fandom.
And I just. think. that it's interesting that the typical image evoked by other media of the a tumblr user is a teenage girl when the actual demographic is adult women. Adult women with jobs and families and kids and responsibilities as well as tumblr accounts.
I think maybe its because if you're talking intersectionally, the largest marginalised group in the world is women. Like, there are other groups within that group (disabled women, trans women, women of colour, female sex workers, fat women etc and a lot of people definitely tick more than one of those boxes so they get to experience multiple types of marginalisation ) but if we're drawing a venn diagram here, you're starting with a big circle labelled 'women'. Because women make up about half the population of the planet. And tumblr gave that large marginalised group (and the other groups within and adjacent to it) a space to talk about the daily reality of being marginalised and space to cope with it through art and writing.
And now all of that is being lost through neglect (tumblr staff flat out ignored the pornbot problem for ages) and carelessness (the blanket porn ban, the awful algorithm flagging totally unrelated posts as porn.)
I'm not sure if this post has a conclusion of any kind, it's just me thinking out loud, in a sense.
Anyway, that's it really.
And I just. think. that it's interesting that the typical image evoked by other media of the a tumblr user is a teenage girl when the actual demographic is adult women. Adult women with jobs and families and kids and responsibilities as well as tumblr accounts.
I think maybe its because if you're talking intersectionally, the largest marginalised group in the world is women. Like, there are other groups within that group (disabled women, trans women, women of colour, female sex workers, fat women etc and a lot of people definitely tick more than one of those boxes so they get to experience multiple types of marginalisation ) but if we're drawing a venn diagram here, you're starting with a big circle labelled 'women'. Because women make up about half the population of the planet. And tumblr gave that large marginalised group (and the other groups within and adjacent to it) a space to talk about the daily reality of being marginalised and space to cope with it through art and writing.
And now all of that is being lost through neglect (tumblr staff flat out ignored the pornbot problem for ages) and carelessness (the blanket porn ban, the awful algorithm flagging totally unrelated posts as porn.)
I'm not sure if this post has a conclusion of any kind, it's just me thinking out loud, in a sense.
Anyway, that's it really.