Yikes, never knew about this.

But do be cautious on the stuff you read and pay attention to in tumblr, tumblr has been known to make jokes and assumptions up the wazzoo.

Yikes, never knew about this. But do be cautious on the stuff you read and pay attention to in tumblr, tumblr has been known to make jokes and assumptions up the wazzoo.

The one that pisses me off the most is calling anyone that dares talk about the difficult subject of rape without bowing down to their exact views on what constitutes rape culture and such a rapist or rape-apologist. 

Sometimes I find myself starting to get pulled into this sort of thing too; it's just... so easy. Y'know, looking up stuff about girl power and mental disorders and what not because it's an easy pat on the back to myself as a chick who takes medication from a psychiatrist every day. 

But it's really harmful and hurtful stuff a lot of the time. I think one time I was reading a blog until this one entry describing a story and saying "Girls will notice the immediate danger here and guys won't because of their privilege" came up. 

I had to read the explanation.

Sometimes I find myself starting to get pulled into this sort of thing too; it's just... so easy. Y'know, looking up stuff about girl power and mental disorders and what not because it's an easy pat on the back to myself as a chick who takes medication from a psychiatrist every day. 

 

But it's really harmful and hurtful stuff a lot of the time. I think one time I was reading a blog until this one entry describing a story and saying "Girls will notice the immediate danger here and guys won't because of their privilege" came up. 

 

I had to read the explanation.

Pretty much. People like to girl above that suffer from depression fall into to movements looking for a place to validate themselves and feel like a part of something good, then wind up essentially brainwashed by overloads of scary looking and sounding information into a herd mentality of demonizing and distrusting anyone with views different than their own.

Granted, SJWs existed long before Tumblr but were never out in the open enough for the mentality to lure others in and become a real and potentially harmful problem until the perfect storm of Tumblr becoming both a wildly popular site and a haven for them happened.

It's horrifying how the people in thread have drawn so many parallels between the bad side of Social Justice/Tumblr and a cult in both mentality and behavior. One of them even noticed the people that talk about escaping being trapped in that mentality often sound like recovering ex-cult members talking about what they went though.