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Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
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So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So what’s next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
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YOU BANNED A FUCKING FOOD BLOG for “adult content”UNTIL A COUPLE DAYS AGO.
Go fuck yourself, Jeff. Adult content creators built this site’s fanbase, and your hamstringing is really, really fucking obvious to anyone who cares to listen.
So these are both “Aw Fuck I’m outta real food” meals BUT ALSO: if you’re learning how to cook, these are great “baby steps” meals to learn how to cook basics into something enjoyable without “wasting” anything expensive. Though I maintain that even cooking screw-ups are valuable in terms of lessons learned.
Also they’re great for when you get absorbed in something and you realize your blood sugar is dropping and you need to make something Quick.
I don’t think of myself as a cook at all, but I looked through this list and was like “if you have [center] and [any item on a surrounding ring] how do you sit there thinking you’ve got nothing to eat?” Like, I buy a fair amount of staples knowing that I’ll be able to quickly assemble them into something tasty if I’m hungry and don’t have anything instant (or in a leftovers container because I made it earlier in the week specifically to eat for a week): butter, cheese, noodles, and more.
It still impresses people how I can go into random kitchens with no food in them and emerge with Filling Snacks for Five People. This is the secret: knowing how to assemble Cupboard Meals. And these charts are incredibly well-laid-out too!
“Ex caliclaria – gustula!” is one of the Dark Arts, and well worth learning.
NB, I see tomato sauce mentioned several times. If you don’t have tomato sauce or basic basic pasta sauce (the cheap kind for improving with other things) but you DO have what we keep as cupboard staples (tinned chopped tomatoes, olive oil, onions, garlic, dried herbs), try this:
Chop 1 onion and 2 (or 6, or 10) cloves of garlic. Fine or coarse is up to you.
Put a glug of olive oil in a saucepan, chuck in the garion or onlic and cook it until soft and translucent.
Open 1 or 2 tins of toms, chuck them in as well, and add a little salt, a lot of black pepper and a pinch or dried herbs – oregano, tarragon, marjoram. (Or other things – see below)
Turn the heat right down, put on a lid, set a timer for 30 minutes and go do something else. 1 hour is even better, but stir and check
for sticking
at the half hour.
When the timer goes, have a taste and add more seasoning if required – we never use much salt, you can always add it at the table but if you overdo it while cooking you can never take it out – then use what’s in the saucepan for whatever needed tomato sauce.
IMO this is better than most prepared sauces in jars.
It’s completely basic, so
as well as being used as-is
it can be tweaked with extra things – frozen peppers, canned beans / chickpeas, fine-chopped raw onion or garlic, leftover cooked meat, sliced pepperoni / salami etc. – and a touch of appropriate herbs or spices*.
* Indian – a bit of curry powder (fry it briefly in oil / butter
to remove the “raw” taste of school or canteen curry), cubed cooked chicken breast and / or cooked / tinned lentils, on Basmati rice.
North African – a touch of chilli, pepper, cloves, cinnamon and lemon
juice,
sliced cooked chicken breast and / or cooked / tinned chickpeas, on couscous.
Italian – some basil, oregano and a garlic clove sliced very thin and briefly fried in olive oil, on pasta, tagliatelle if you have it but anything will do.
Mexican – chilli, cumin, oregano and a square of bitter chocolate – Cadbury’s Bournville will do at a pinch, and has done – shredded-up cooked chicken breast and / cooked /tinned kidney beans on plain rice or with tortillas…
Not haute cuisine or authentic ethnic, but bare-cupboard basic that’s not boring, and a bit more satisfying than just opening jars or tins for everything.
If you blitz the basic saucepan contents with a stick mixer and thin it with a little water or stock (granules
or a stock cube is fine, but is another reason for not overdoing the salt at any stage) then top it with croutons / snipped green onions / a swirl of cream or yogurt, it becomes a thoroughly acceptable soup.
And remember to replace the stuff you’ve used from the cupboard…
I’ve just been thinking how glad I am to not be part of the culty feminist circles I was in back in the day (nota bene NOT ALL FEMINISM IS CULTY AND I KNOW THIS)
Not just because I don’t know if I would have felt okay making the Zamii posts I’ve made, but also because something dawned on me this morning:
We had things we would say, like, “don’t say patriarchy hurts men too, it’s a ‘derail’” and there was even a handy acronym, PHMT. I remember we said something similar about talking about women abusers, though I don’t remember that as vividly. I think it was WDIT, “women do it too,” and it was also “a derail.”
I think people were usually assuming men who trolled would say these things. The kind of MRA who is more interested in starting a fight than in actually discussing. And I do think these people exist. Whenever you’re in an extremist group you attract trolls and Argument People who just want to rile you up. I HAVE A COUNTEREXAMPLE AND I DON’T REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE IT BUT YOU YELL FUNNY WHEN I WAVE IT AT YOU WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!
But here’s the thing. Both times that I’ve been treated abusively, it’s been by other women.
And it dawned on me today, and I don’t think I’d ever even thought about it like this, that an environment where “WDIT” is “derailing” – talking about my experiences is against social norms. Semi-forbidden, because being frank would mean I just WDIT-ed. Bad move in The Discourse.
How invalidating was that?
How used to invalidation was I that I could be a part of an environment that said that, and *not even notice that that invalidation was already something hurtful to me?*
That an environment that did that was specifically not a good one for me to heal in?
Every time I’m in a feminist women’s safe space and I try to talk about abuse I’ve experienced; people tell me to shut up because I’ll encourage MRAs.
I’m still feminist but I really have to ask myself why, sometimes.
I’ve quite vocal about my criticism of specific feminists or writings from feminists, but here, like on the racism in Brownmiller’s book, I fear that it is not better outside, and that some of the best criticism of those failures comes from other feminists or progressives.
I have found that the best support on these issues comes from other people with disabilities, who may or may not identify as feminist but don’t use much if any critical theory in their analysis of these issues.
Which is not centered around criticising problems in feminism, because it’s not revolved around feminism; we’re coming from somewhere else.
I find the same thing, which is probably why I find a lot of groups oriented around various identities I have (woman, queer, bi, gender nonconforming/trans for certain values of trans, etc.) much less safe or relevant than I find the disability community and related activism.
Yup. Feminism doesn’t have space for women who’ve been abused by women; feminism is reliably pro-abuse as long as the abuser is female. And that’s the one-sentence version of why I’m not a feminist anymore.
I’m also not really sure if I believe in “derails” anymore. Because there’s things that seem pretty clearly like derails but are forbidden to call out, like, “Women ought to have access to abortion services” “Hey, some men get pregnant!” cannot be called a derail without being labeled a TERF.
But “We need to punish men who rape” may not be responded to with “Women rape too” without it being a derail.
It was very jarring to go from being (seemingly) a female victim of abuse to being a male victim of abuse. Especially when it was abuse from women.
Not only you are expected to shut up and stay quiet, but while a female victim is perceived as wounded and fragile, a male victim is perceived as even more dangerous and predatory, because so much of the male abuse narrative is about how “a lot of abusers have been abused in the past and that’s why they do it” (especially when it comes to rape). It’s like you’re a walking ticking bomb.
I am terrified of being potentially abusive in a way that I probably wouldn’t be if I was a woman. And that paranoia doesn’t come out of nowhere. I didn’t get the idea that as a male I was “inherently more dangerous” out of thin hair.
Not a derail to me 😛
Yeah, the differences in treatment of victims based on gender is really horrifying.
What you say has actually sparked me to have some interesting related ideas; that what we see as “abuse” and “victims” is often based on gender, race, class, status, that kind of thing. And part of the problem with this kind of prejudice is to see the ingroup as safer than it actually is. Women think that other women are “safe” more than they ought, Whites consider other Whites “safe” when they really shouldn’t.
Yep. I stayed with an emotionally abusive exgf longer than I should have because my community kept saying “lesbian relationships are wonderful – there aren’t power dynamics in them like there are in heterosexual ones.”
I reframed what was happening to me over and over, because the one thing it couldn’t be was a power dynamic.
When I was going through my whole gender identity thing I kind of thought a lot of the awful treatment I’d gotten pretty consistently from girls and women in my life was because they knew I wasn’t one of them, so they must have been reacting badly to me for their own safety.
And part of my gender identity crisis was caused by the idea of The Sisterhood. Because girls and women had pretty much always treated me like an outsider, I figured that I couldn’t really be a woman, because I didn’t fit in with girls at all. And because I didn’t have the “real woman” experiences of fearing all men. I generally felt safer around men.
The whole attitude about abuse and gender basically really fucked me up for a few years.
My college epiphany actually sprouted from feminism. When my last paper for the year essentially boiled down to “write about oppressed women in America”, I had simply refused to write the paper because I had just been informed we weren’t oppressed at all and then dropped out.
Up until then I had just sort of went through the motions of being a girl, which included feminism. Now I’m a dropout. I’m not necessarily content about it, but at least it’s better than being inculcated into something I simply didn’t believe in.
They had you write a paper about how women are oppressed in America? Wow, that’s not okay in the slightest. I’d refuse to write something that’s pretty much untrue as well if put in that situation.
I think it actually *is* true, but… assigning you a paper and not even allowing you to defend your actual views in it (unless the point of the paper is expressly “argue for a view you disagree with, as an exercise in critical thinking) sounds distinctly Not Great.
If you say ‘men doing x to women is not only bad, but it’s sexist and an example of how society itself is built to oppress women’, how is going ‘wait, but actually it doesn’t seem to be a gendered thing and women do x just as often or almost as often to men, how is it sexist?’ a derail?
the thing that made me go off feminism was finding out that things that i thought were almost exclusively perpetrated by men based on what feminists were telling me were actually super not. and that bringing it up got you shouted at. (even if it isn’t 50/50, if previously i had the impression that it was 1/99 and then it turned out it was actually 35/65 that’s still a big moment of finding out you’ve been mislead).
That particular example wouldn’t be, it’d just be an argument.
I’ve seen a lot of the sorts of derails described, where someone is talking about women on/in a website/forum/group focused on women only for someone to pop up and get angry that they weren’t also talking about men. I watched over the next few years as “talking about men is a derail” moved from those narrow situations where someone actually is derailing a focused discussion to basically any situation where feminism is the topic at hand. Pattern matching is a hell of a drug.
I never really got off feminism for a number of reasons, most of which comes down to a) I never really expected it to be perfect, and b) I’m still firmly convinced it’s done more good than harm, and in particular more good than anyone else at the table. I don’t even think it’s feasible to do more good than feminism at this point, since every viable successor to it liberally lifts tools, analyses, and modes of thought from feminism.
I think it depends what “feminism” is. If it’s “you’re either one of us or a misogynist, and we’ll inform you if you adequately perform ‘one of us’ at a later date,” then fuck it sideways.
If it’s “I actually believe that studies indicating that resumes labeled with female names do get rated lower than the same resumes labeled with male names, and that this is connected to a history of limiting women’s rights which we have made strides to dismantle but is not yet totally gone,” then I am a feminist.
The second thing is why I’m leery of MRAs. I would understand a men’s rights movement if we had clear evidence we’ve overshot and the men’s resumes are widespread getting binned, say, but I… never seem to see that. The closest thing I see are some claims about girls succeeding better in early academia.
Which may be a problem, and there may be things we should be doing about it that we’re not doing, but I don’t feel like I see nearly enough to prove we’ve identified the problem correctly AND weeded out confounders.
That’s not a primary issue of any Men’s Rights organization I’ve ever seen. The primary issues there tend to be unfair treatment in family/custody and divorce court, lack of resources for abuse victims, lack of concern for mental heath, demonization of all masculine features in the name of quashing “toxic masculinity”, and mistreatment by society of men who don’t adequately perform their gender roles.
Re the family custody thing, I’ve asked this several times and no one had ever answered: is there much out there about the point of view of the kids in question? I don’t doubt that a lot of people default to “moms are better parents,” but I also think sometimes people don’t really center the kid, and I’d really need to see clearer evidence of that to know whether I can get behind the activism the movement is doing and the way it goes about that activism.
Unfortunately, as is almost always the case, the children are considered to be essentially property in these cases, with both parties vying for “ownership” of said property, although the children can be called as witnesses in court.
Yeah, that’s my concern—how MRAs weed out dads who see their custody battles as “this child is something I own” rather than “this child is being mistreated by their mom.” You seem to be familiar with the movement; can you shed light on this? If not, I think I’m gonna have to remain skeptical.
I have a cursory familiarity, but the idea isn’t “weeding out” anyone, it’s protesting based on statistical norms that show obvious skewage.The people may be imperfect, but the numbers don’t lie, and they clearly show that women win custody battles with much more speed and ease than men do.
Hmm. Then I’m going to have to stay skeptical, given that custody has such a profound effect on individual kids’ lives. If you’re not centering the kids that sounds… terribly prone to becoming toxic activism, of a similar breed to bad feminism.
Skepticism is fine, and I’m not going to purport to be an expert, but again, statistics are statistics, and the statistics show skewage.
Once again: have you guys done work to root out confounders? Are you sure nothing else accounts for the disparity? Can you explain how you came to this conclusion?
I’m not a “you guys”, I think that there are points made by MRAs that deserve to be looked into and not dismissed outright is all, so i cannot say if that work has been done.
Fair enough. I’m just saying what I’d need to change my mind at this point, and why I don’t think that threshold has been hit yet.
I’ve looked into several custody cases in my country because the habit of just…“parents are divorcing, clearly kids go to the mum” thing is bullshit for many reasons- not least that some of these mums are clearly unfit, dads deserve to have equal opportunity to care for their kids, this attitude is still very stuck in outdated gender norms etc – but in almost every case the deciding factor had been “who does the bulk of the childcare and if one person is doing more than 60% of the childcare then they’re the least disruptive option for the child/ren” and assigns custody based on that.
Which itself ties into gender norms in a way we havent entangled – women doing the bulk of it and all.
I can see and have seen the pain men go through when they are denied access to or custody of their children, particularly if the other parent is unfit, but the only way I can see around it at this point is to spend more time with their kids, raising them and doing the hard yards and not just leaving the mum to do the bulk of the work.
Again, engrained gender norms are against them from the start there – both parents need to make an actual effort to both pick up the slack and allow the other to be a parent. Because otherwise if it comes down to it, a court trying to decide who should get custody of a child is going to looks at “person A makes their lunches, gets them up in the morning, takes them to school, picks them up, cooks them dinner, organizes playdates and sports, goes to all the parent teacher meetings” and “person B is who the kid/s prefer and sometimes helps with their homework and sometimes takes them to movies”….person A is gonna win that one.
I dont know how and why custody cases are decided in the US, but this is part of our system. And this is the deciding factor in something like 90% of child custody cases.
ETA: That our family court statistics show that men get custody in approx 27% of cases. And apply for custody in 30%. Women apply for custody 68% of the time and get it 69%. The other 4-5% is other relatives.
So here’s another part of the problem – apply for custody and show willingness and ability to do day-to-day childcare, don’t just not apply and then complain.
Just need to say again, not America.
Re: your tags…. MEN HAVE TRIED TO BUILD THEIR OWN SHELTERS.
And they get shut down because we’re “stealing resources from women.” Because “men don’t need that, and if they do it’s not as MUCH. There’s less men who need it so they should give the space to WOMEN who NEED IT MORE~”
I want a high fantasy movie where everyone talks with Southern US accents instead of British ones.
The Dwarves though, they can get Minnesotan accents.
ok but picture this: elves with brooklyn accents
“Hey HEY I’m castin’ here, what’d’you – listen, my pop and I serve the Great Tree goin’ back six hundred fuckin’ years so if you got a problem with our fuckin’ magic you don’t fuckin’ come down here into our fuckin’ grove to gimme shit about it.
“Right? You don’t see me fuckin’ goin’ into your shitty man-stables and tellin’ you how to milk horses, do ya? So instead you come down here, disrespect me, disrespect my pa, and how ‘bout you stop fuckin’ disrespectin’ the Great Fuckin’ Tree that grew whens’t the world was young and carries all our fates ‘n its boughs, okay?
“I said, ‘okay?’
“Okay, now fuck off.”
“Oh, ya, my clan’s been mining these ranges for 500 years, real nice place, real friendly. We make a mean hot dish, too, don’t cha know”
“Now, see, our main export may be iron, but y’see, we’re also the home of one of the modern wonders of merchantry and architecture…. THE GREAT DWARVEN BAZAAR. Four subterranean levels, all shops, biggest in the land! Full of tourists but we’re all here for a good time and we’re all for boostin’ the local economy!”
*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free
invasive species encroach on lesbian territory
This is a common misconception because they’re such similar environments, but you should be aware that dads are native to Home Depot, while lesbians are actually native to Lowe’s. At this point, however, both dads and lesbians have made themselves at home in both Home Depot and Lowe’s to the point that trying to separate them back into their original ranges would probably do more harm than good to the delicate ecosystem of large chain hardware stores.
A properly raised and socialized Dad will be perfectly comfortable cohabiting with Lesbians. Its not really “encroaching on another’s territory”. You wouldn’t say that about foxes in a forest that also homes bobcats, would you? No. It’s just two different species that have both evolved to live in similar/the same environment. As long as they recognize each other as equals, Dads and Lesbians are more than capable of cohabitation.
Now, if you were to release a pack of Lumberjacks into a Lowes or Home Depot, that’s where chaos will reign. Being adapted to a far harsher and more demanding environment, the Lumberjacks would simply push Dads and Lesbians both out and also consume far more than a sustainable amount of resources. It would be like releasing bears at a country club.
As a former timber-harvester… I feel this is potentially accurate in theory. But highly improbable in actuality.
Lumberjacks, like most megafauna species generally require more space than the average hardware store, even a big box store could provide. The misconception is that Lumberjacks are a social species because of how they often work and live together.
This is a matter of necessity, not preference, and a survival technique for thriving under the LogBoss.
A “pack” of Lumberjacks, if not under the environmental pressure of a LogBoss will naturally disperse until they each have a wide territory.
Lumberjacks rarely fight for territory.
One on one, a Lumberjack could drive out a Dad or Lesbian, however the latter tend to travel in social packs.
Lumberjacks will passively retreat on the presence of large numbers of people. Kind of like Sasquatch.
Getting a “pack” of Lumberjacks assembled would be hard enough unless they were forced into a Hardware Store by a LogBoss. In that case, they would already be in a heightened and potentially agitated state far above their natural behavior. This artificial scenario can be likened to a circus animal running amok. If it had been in the wild, the incident would not have occurred.
Free-roaming Lumberjacks are the cryptids of the Hardware ecosystem. They are surprisingly quiet and unobtrusive.
Please stop labeling Lumberjacks as dangerous roving social predators. They are intermediate level omnivores and remarkably peaceful unless threatened.
As a hardware store worker I can say that this is all 100% accurate.
Meanwhile, the redneck versions of all three species are prowling Menards.
OMG @it-was-a-red-heeler. I did not see that one coming. We have Menards around here and you are right. LMAO
That is blatant Midwesterner/Farmer erasure and I won’t stand for it
There’s been a major development over the past 24 hours: another member of Congress just came out in support of the House Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s net neutrality repeal.
This is a big deal and could help push other lawmakers do the same, but we have to act fast because the deadline is just over a week away.
We’ve been fighting for months without seeing any movement in Congress, watching the clock ticking down to the deadline. But Rep Joe Morelle (NY-25) his support for the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution could change that.
If we act fast, we can leverage this new momentum to unleash a small landslide of other representatives coming out for net neutrality before the December 10th deadline, which will make a huge difference in the battles ahead.
Your voice matters. As part of today’s Internet-wide day of action, thousands of others are speaking out, along with celebrities, musicians, and websites like Tumblr, Postmates and Etsy.
You can join them and show your support for net neutrality by submitting an ‘I support net neutrality’ photo. We will be flooding lawmakers’ social media feeds with pictures, so if they decide to vote against the open Internet we will make them look us in the eye as they do it.
We can’t let this deadline come and go without making Congress remember that the whole Internet is watching. We’re still fighting for net neutrality. And we won’t forget if they betray us.
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House Of Crows 