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emma. she/her. 27yo. autistic magical girl. ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭ personal blog. art acct is royalmilkteehee.
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cryptotheism
Anonymous asked:

How can we trust historians to tell truth? :(

cryptotheism answered:

You can't! Like any academic field, History is a process of publishing findings, getting fact-checked by your peers. Historians aren't allowed to cum unless they're calling someone else a fraud.

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cryptotheism

Please respect my privacy at this time.

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talaricula

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

  • Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources
  • Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)
  • Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women
  • Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women
  • Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)
  • Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)
  • Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community
  • Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS
  • Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough
  • Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media
  • Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards
  • Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories
  • Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

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sqbr

To give an idea how widespread these ideas are: I've had to take a break from working through the list of good queer youtubers Hbomberguy linked to in his video, because the amount of gender essentialism, biphobia, and erasure of non-binary people was making me dysphoric(*). One creator who shall remain nameless(**) used the logic that because a non-binary writer is afab and doesn't identify as a man, then they have a "female POV" (or something like that, going back to check exact wording would make me feel bad!), even though (afaict from a brief google) this writer does not identify as a woman at all.

Because a lot of this rhetoric is rooted in rigidly gender essentialist binarist thinking. They really want there to be, like, a Unique and Clearly Defined Gay Male Experience which is easily recognised and agreed upon by literally every gay man (or every American gay man which is of course the only valid POV), and that the only alternative is the similarly uniform (Straight) Female Experience, and vice versa for Lesbians vs Men. To acknowledge otherwise beyond vague shallow gestures at inclusion would require accepting that while there are significant general patterns, there is no neat line between your gender and gender experience and that of The Other Gender, and that experiences of other people within your gender/orientation vary from yours significantly. A lot of queer people would rather throw non-binary people (and anyone else whose experience differs from theirs) under the bus than accept that.

(*)Which is not to say these are the only issues, just the ones that made me, personally, feel bad. I'm sure there were unfortunate attitudes to lesbians etc that went over my head.

(**)Because pointing to specific creators and demonising them as The Problem Ruining Everything is bad enough before you do it to overall well intentioned, if flawed, trans people who screw up one time about another trans person. James Somerton required an individual callout, most other flawed creators are just small parts of a bigger problem.

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talaricula

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

  • Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources
  • Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)
  • Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women
  • Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women
  • Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)
  • Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)
  • Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community
  • Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS
  • Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough
  • Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media
  • Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards
  • Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories
  • Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

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sqbr

To give an idea how widespread these ideas are: I've had to take a break from working through the list of good queer youtubers Hbomberguy linked to in his video, because the amount of gender essentialism, biphobia, and erasure of non-binary people was making me dysphoric(*). One creator who shall remain nameless(**) used the logic that because a non-binary writer is afab and doesn't identify as a man, then they have a "female POV" (or something like that, going back to check exact wording would make me feel bad!), even though (afaict from a brief google) this writer does not identify as a woman at all.

Because a lot of this rhetoric is rooted in rigidly gender essentialist binarist thinking. They really want there to be, like, a Unique and Clearly Defined Gay Male Experience which is easily recognised and agreed upon by literally every gay man (or every American gay man which is of course the only valid POV), and that the only alternative is the similarly uniform (Straight) Female Experience, and vice versa for Lesbians vs Men. To acknowledge otherwise beyond vague shallow gestures at inclusion would require accepting that while there are significant general patterns, there is no neat line between your gender and gender experience and that of The Other Gender, and that experiences of other people within your gender/orientation vary from yours significantly. A lot of queer people would rather throw non-binary people (and anyone else whose experience differs from theirs) under the bus than accept that.

(*)Which is not to say these are the only issues, just the ones that made me, personally, feel bad. I'm sure there were unfortunate attitudes to lesbians etc that went over my head.

(**)Because pointing to specific creators and demonising them as The Problem Ruining Everything is bad enough before you do it to overall well intentioned, if flawed, trans people who screw up one time about another trans person. James Somerton required an individual callout, most other flawed creators are just small parts of a bigger problem.

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[It's hard to rest right. With a different pillow every night. Still I close my eyes. And dream I'll make it home. And ever now and then I. Find my dreams before I learn. That every mountain call of what I yearn. It's a blessing and a curse.]