The cat that always comes back~

conflicts:

I am so very tired of stupid people on Tumblr who take everything to be really offensive and/or aimed at them.

1.  Tagging =/= ~posting to a tag~.  Tags are there to organise your blog and possibly alert people who are interested in a certain thing that hey, you mentioned it.  A tag is not a forum thread or some kind of topical website, it.  is.  a.  TAG.

2.  Not everything is offensive and everyone is not white, middle-class, able-bodied, cis and heterosexual.  Also, being a white, middle-class, able-bodied, cis and heterosexual person is not a bad thing in and of itself, it’s how you act that matters.  Black, poor, disabled, trans*, queer people can be douchebags too.  Everyone can be a douchebag.  Everyone can be mean, everyone can be nice.

3.  When you try to make words that have long lost their original meaning offensive, you are making things worse.  Worse still, when you take innocent words and twist them so the person saying them looks like a bigot, you are not educating people, you are

• making them feel like shit
• making yourself look like a douche who can’t pick their battles (fighting over the word “stupid” is not worth your time.  Shutting up the person who was so desperate for a cause to fight for that they thought up that stupid = learning disabilities, and that crazy still means mentally ill when used for other purposes, on the other hand, is)
• making equality that little bit harder for anyone who you insist would have been offended should they somehow magically come to the same convoluted interpretation of those words.

And because I am sick of this shit, I will not ~post to a tag~ of any description, i.e. not organise my own fucking blog, because my social anxiety cannot handle this utter ridiculousness.

Social justice warriors who do not understand what social justice actually is are taking away the voices of everybody else, and that is not okay, and frankly makes me pretty fucking angry.  Every single thing gets twisted into “YOU ARE OPPRESSING MY LEFT FOOT”.

I am done, I am going to fucking reblog cats and pretty people and funny shit and not even bother saying anything worthwhile anymore.  I’m sorry my trans* queerness doesn’t define my entire personality so I can be an oversensitive fucking douche.

Disclaimer because, depressingly, even this post needs it: equality is absolutely worth fighting for.  Just don’t be petty, petulant, and make genuinely kind people feel like shit.