Dear Tumblr:

Announcing a ban on NSFW content has resulted in more graphically sexual content coming across my dashboard in the last 24ish hours than it’s probably seen in the past two years.  Meanwhile, some of the non-sexualized body positivity stuff I follow which sometimes happens to include nudity seems to have vanished, and apparently white supremacy is still allowed, and people are saying that their posts without any adult content at all are being removed or flagged and your whole damned site is just exploding IDK WTF.

Like, I don’t have any inherent objection to sexualized nudity or erotic content, but I do sort of prefer it interspersed with other things.  And I’m not even a little bit irritated with the people posting it, because it’s a form of protest and it has to be disruptive to be heard and I get that.  I mean, I almost feel tempted myself and I usually try to keep it PG-13. I’m super irritated with the situation, though.

I’m a follower, not a creator or even a curator.  I know several people have followed me out of a genuine interest in the few things I reblog, and I wish I had somewhere to redirect you to for more of the same but I don’t.  I’m sorry.  Facebook is the only other social media site I’m paying any attention to right now, and a) I don’t accept friend requests from people I don’t know, but also b) my presence there is different from my presence here, which is why I have both accounts in the first place.  I feel more free in some ways here, where I don’t have to worry about my conservative extended family and spend the mental/emotional energy thinking through how they might react and whether I feel like I can deal with that (or with worrying about that even if it doesn’t happen) right at the moment.  I feel like the dialog is more open here, and that results in some real trash happening but, like, that’s the danger of open dialog and I accept the risk.

Or I did.  I guess I don’t have that choice anymore.  Maybe I should just learn to use the “Friends Except” privacy filter that FB offers now.

I don’t even know what my point here is anymore, other than:  Really?  REALLY?  We have to do this here too?