Today on Tumblr, I learned that making your lips look fuller with make-up is racist.
Good god, don’t these people have anything better to do? I mean, come on.
This is how a movement discredits itself without any outside assistance.
When everything is racist and cultural appropriation and evil, nothing is — it actually harms the real fight and the people you are trying to help.
“Yeah, but that mermaid is from Peter Pan which is racist AND sexist, so you fail at intersectionality, tumblr writer!!!”
Step away from the tumblr. Maybe people focus righteously on picayune shit because the big shit is too depressing and overwhelming. I think a lot of what ginmar (she has her own issues) used to call “college feminists” have migrated from livejournal to tumblr. Soon I shall communicate Advanced Intersectional Feminist Thoughts through strings of emoji and the really old school people will communicate through ASCII!
Tumblr is good for comedic value, though. 😉
But it is a whole lot of people wasting time in actually directly harmful ways. Watching hours of TV like people used to do was probably better, because that didn’t actually do any active harm….