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MOGAI bonus video: DNIs and Hollow Safe Spaces (Patreon)

Published:
2021-01-18 18:00:00
Imported:
2023-01

Content

The first Patron exclusive video is now here! A discussion of Tumblr users' attempts to create safe spaces, and why I think they usually fail.

This video will be publicly viewable for one week, to attract new patrons to the page. After that, it'll be hidden, so only patrons can see it!

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DNIs and Hollow Safe Spaces [Patreon Exclusive]

This video includes references to transphobia, racism, and CSA/grooming. The original MOGAI video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZFZto6Wqg

Comments

Jasper Rose

"The facade of never hurting or invalidating anyone" THIS. I feel that this idea has stayed on tumblr but also migrated into queer Facebook groups. When you enter a group you're met with a list of banned words and things you're not even allowed to talk about for fear of making someone feel invalidated. And because each group has often conflicting opinions on what is invalidating, it can make queer spaces very difficult to navigate and participate in. Especially in nonbinary spaces, as I think MOGAI ideas have mostly migrated into that space. For an example, there's no way to abbreviate nonbinary without pissing *someone* off, and if you forget which group has what rule about how you're allowed to abbreviate it, you're met with mockery, hundreds of comments passively aggressively correcting you, and if you put up any resistance and question it, you are quickly excised from that community as hundreds cheer on the admins for bringing you down.

ValentinesStar

Yeah, this is one of the reasons I decided to stop using Tumblr. I had many(to keep it brief, I had a really bad experience on Twitter that made me think about my relationship with the site. I came to the conclusion it was making me a worse, less intelligent person and I decided to delete my account. The same day, I decided Tumblr was having a similar effect on me so I deleted my account on it too). The overall culture of "activist" Tumblr(and the "activist" side of many other websites)is so toxic. Misusing/abusing certain loaded terms("bootlicker" is a fantastic example), demonizing people in their own community for disagreeing with them on relatively insignificant things(such as claiming people who are against overly skimpy outfits at Pride events are homophobes, TERFs, or bootlickers, which some people have actually done), performative activism, armchair activism, quippy hot takes that have no research or care put into them, spending more time mocking and bashing bigots than doing anything productive(I'm all about bashing bigots, but saying "fuck terfs" isn't actual activism because it doesn't do anything), perpetuating sexist stereotypes by demonizing men and idealizing women(trust me, it happens and it happens way too much), "if you do X, you are Y"(fill in the blanks with anything you see fit), legitimately infantilizing minority groups(whenever they're not straight up stereotyping them), I could go on for years. I get why it's like that. A lot of these people are kids who want to be activists, but who can't vote or sign petitions or go to rallies or donate and who don't have enough life experience to understand problems like systemic prejudice. With that said, some are adults who are just chronically online or unintelligent. Not all activists on websites like Tumblr or Twitter are like this obviously, you can find some genuinely good and thoughtful activism if you shift through the bs. Above all else, it's a rather smug, self-congratulatory environment where everyone, even the most well meaning people, wants to give themselves a pat on the back for being such a good person.