O.K. I Have To Be Hornest With You Now About Some Thing Important
Moth Man Is Not Real. He Is Not Real. I Checked. I See Ghouls And Ghosts And Spectres And Baba Yaga All The Time But I Never Seen No Moth Man. I Look All Over West Virginia And I Never Seen Him. He’s Is Not Real. Im Sorry.
some people’s blogs are being incorrectly flagged as explicit so if you would like to check your status, you can look it up on postlimit.com.
if you have been incorrectly marked as nsfw, you can appeal before tumblr permanently filters you as such and your blog is set back to default settings prior to december 18th here.
Everyone: this is how I found out I was flagged and marked explicit. Check your stuff out and make sure you’re good to go.
Apparently I’m safe
I just checked myself and a bunch of blogs I follow or who follow me – while I appear to be fine, about half of y’all I checked are incorrectly flagged as explicit. Those of you flagged as explicit aren’t showing up on my dash, so you may want to look into that.
I’m okay, I don’t really pay attention to NSFW stuff, but sharing this for others to be able to check. (and geez I’ve had this Tumblr since 2012?)
huh. turns out i was flagged. i sent a report. it’s kinda classic how you need a third party site to find out whether your blog’s been marked explicit.
usually I’m all “let’s talk about beauty standards and the unrealistic expectation they set for women” but hear me out about Gibson Girls
in the late 19th/early 20th century, this one dude, Charles Gibson, drew tons of illustrations of these ladies
they’re considered a “beauty ideal” because they all pretty much have one body type–huge, piled up hair, adding to their already statuesque height, long necks, corseted waists blooming into broad skirts BUT
a lot of that had to do with ushering in a new cultural ideal, the “New Woman,” who was encouraged to be more athletic and embrace her physicality more than previous decades
also if you’re not already swooning, the Gibson Girl is frequently seen honing her skills. here she is playing the violin:
ALSO these works were laced with satire and social commentary. Check out “The Weaker Sex”:
she is depicted as intelligent, aloof, absorbed in her aspirations to reach beyond what society has so far granted her, and not content to marry off quickly
(^^every time I look at this picture I say “me” about a different figure)
she’s also super in touch with her sexuality
these drawings maintain somewhat of a tongue-in-cheek, self-aware quality, as if aware that the “ideal” being sold is attainable and even somewhat odd
look here’s an acknowledgement of her vanity, but life can be shitty but at least she looks hot af while livin it
anyway there’s so much more to this than “some illustrator dude drew his ideal woman over and over and then it became a beauty ideal like the ones we’re familiar with today” Gibson did a remarkable job capturing a sentiment among women in a period of great change and chose to highlight their strength and their agency
TERFs are literally claiming they aren’t cis now so they can escape being accused of transphobia.
The mental gymnastics is exhausting.
“we’re gender noncomforming therefore we aren’t cis” that ain’t how it works chief
I want to scream,
Does not work that way… Also, being trans does not prevent one from being transphobic. I have met plenty of transphobic trans people. And this would not be the first time I have seen a cis person pretending to be trans to try and give their ridiculous voice some sort of validity.
Nervosityperson 