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*** DISCLAIMER *** Opinions on this blog are submissions. None of the opinions featured are written by me, and I may or may not agree with the submissions posted. Opinions may be personally offensive, triggering, prejudiced, and/or misinformed.

I can't respect people that guilt trip people to get money, give a fit when not getting commissions for a short time (when they themselves have commissions they still need to work on), says their art is bad just to get enough empathy to get sent money (or whatever they wanted). Especially ones that complain about people not 'helping them in their time of need' when in the past you asked for money/commissions to get school supplies/clothes and then turning around saying your using it to get something you don't need with all that money. Of course people will remember and won't fall for it. I don't see how people can still talk to these people, not to mention want to date them when you see they get revenge and cheat.

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I hate seeing the Strilondes (Dirk, Dave, Roxy, and Rose) drawn with dark skin. It looks ugly as hell when they have white/light blonde hair alongside it. It's also ugly when people draw them (especially Dave) with the sides shaved and the character just has a curly poof of hair atop their head. It just doesn't look good in my opinion.

But whatever, the artist is doing what they want and I shouldn't condemn them for my conflicting opinions. As long as they're having fun, I say go for it, but that won't stop me from not liking the design.

I completely do not think trans people need to disclose they are trans before having sex with someone. If they've reached the point in transition where you can't tell they're trans without them telling you, why do they need to? It's in the past. If someone was born with a cleft lip and had that surgically corrected would you expect them to tell you that before you had a one night stand with them? No? So why is this different? Someone's past is not relevant to the sex you have with them & it won't affect you one way or another.

Later finding out something you might think is icky about someone you've slept with is NOT comparable to rape, I can't believe there are people who say "if a trans person doesn't say they're trans before having sex with someone, it's rape because they're misleading their partner". Give me a break.

I mean yeah, it's one thing if they LIE and say "no, I'm not trans" if you've outright asked them (still not RAPE though), but that's so unlikely to come up and they shouldn't just be expected to bring it up out of the blue.

Submitted by anonymous

I hate seeing posts asking for donations, especially when its asking for money for a pet. If you're truly struggling financially, unfortunately a pet is a luxury and a huge added expense, even more so if its an older pet or it gets sick. If you can't afford to take care of it, then either give it away or have some one who's more financially stable look after it until you can afford it.

Submitted by anonymous

I've recently been seeing a lot of posts saying "Homeless Individual in Need of Help" or other various titles lately, which then go on to talk about how they've been in an abusive family/got kicked out/etc. and then proceed to list their gofundme page or paypal. And I have to wonder if at least some of these are trying to scam people into giving them money. Which would be a shame seeing that there are people out there who genuinely need the help, and the people who are scamming (if any) would be taking away from that. You can never really trust the internet after all...

With all the hate on aces and bi/pan/omni-sexuals that are in hetero relationships, I honestly wanna set up a group of aces, bi/pan/omni, genderfluids, transgender, and the sorts, who are in "heterosexual" relationships (Or Hetero-looking relationships because that is really the hate towards it is.) just to crash on a LGBT event. 

Like fuck you with all of ya hate. You don't know shit about the "hetero" couple you are stereotyping. Get off your high "oh pity our suffering" horse and fuckin wake up. 

I get your fuckin point. But don't pretend we don't face shit just because the hate we get is different then yours. Just because they don't instantly know by the hands we are holding doesn't mean they don't find out and harm us because of it.  Don't "Demand" us not to come or leave our special someone at home even if they are part of the LGBT group too. Don't denounce our right to be in the group. 

And here I wanted to go to a pride event to help my lover meet more people that can relate to them and they can be open about their gender identity.  

Fuck y'all. You are no different then the Heterosexuals and we don't need your "elite" club either if we gotta fake who we are for ya. I shouldn't need to fuckin tell people that my lover is genderfluid who's thinking about a sex change to get an "Oh your sexuality is valid then." 

Submitted by anonymous

I don't really get the big deal about cheating. It doesn't upset me. 

I've been in relationships where my partner has cheated on me, and it doesn't bother me. Sex is sex. It happened.

I've cheated on partners and I never once felt guilty.

Submitted by anonymous

The ocean and everything in it is so fucking disgusting and gross, fucking everything has a nasty ass texture (coral is the grossest, rankest looking shit), there are absolutely no redeeming aesthetic qualities. Fuck the fucking ocean

Submitted by anonymous

The tumblr art style is seriously one of the ugliest things ever. With the overuse of pastel colors, "progressive kawaii" crap, bad anatomy, scribbly shit, drooped eyes and red noses, it's become a warning against bad art.

Not to mention when it gets added in with SJWy flavor...Suddenly we have random racebending, weight-gaining, hipster clothing and other things on characters that aren't any of that in the canon (but apparently tumblr likes the same type of character over and over, based on how they add these things to every character that ever existed).

It wouldn't bother me so much except for the fact that it's everywhere, and it seems like every tumblr artist draws in the same style. It's boring and lacks any individuality. It's just ugly and pretentious.

Submitted by anonymous

I hate what has the slash community turned to in the last years here on tumblr. Before, shipping and having a fandom was fun, you could do whatever you want and there was no problem.

Nowadays, you don't ship a slash ship just because you like a slash ship, no, it must be done because "representation this" and that. Racebending this, -ist privilege that. Just admit you're a horny fangirl who wants to see cute men fuck, tumblrette, don't put "gender and sexuality politics" into your fapping. 

I ship John and Silver because they're cute and they give me feels, not because I'm "fighting our cissexist heteronormative society" like dumb Cap/Bucky fangirls do. Just admit you like slash and let it be, no need to put tumblr "representation" crap on it. Because i swear i'm going to cry if I see another john/silver pic/fic that has gender/nonbinary black hipster Jim discussing race issues as he fingers John. *cries*

Submitted by anonymous

Tumblr seems to think that the only people who have experienced racism are black people. What about the Irish? They have been looked down upon since the middle ages. 1 million irish people died during the famine alone. It's not just black people from America who have suffered. 

Submitted by anonymous

It boggles my mind how people who have only lived in western countries their entire life and have never lived in countries such as Vietnam or China have an opinion on the labor situation in those countries. People are so quick to forget that only 125 years ago, the United States and England were in the midst of the industrial revolution and they had labor relations worse than what is going on in the worst sweatshop in the China today. Also, if you've never lived in China or any country that has a large factory worker population then I stress to you to go out there and visit those countries. Without such factory work these people have very little opportunities to actually move up the social economic ladder. They had few options, become a factory worker and make a living wage in order to receive a small sliver of the new world progress or continue to be a farmer or migrant worker and make very little in order to survive.

People are 'outraged' because, instead of getting an obese model to model these 5XL leggings, they chose a slim model and put her one of the legs.

I don't think that is outrageous, I think that is a bloody fantastic advertising. People need reminding that being a size 5XL is not normal or healthy, and is actually quite alarming. A single leg should not be the size of an entire (healthy) person unless you have some kind of medical condition such as lipoedema.

Submitted by anonymous

How is sex work seen as empowering to women? “We’re in control” but not entirely??? And that sentence leaves out women who are defensive/survival prostitutes (women who sell themselves in order to stay alive) or forced into prostitution who really can’t afford to be in control of the situation.

Thing is, it’s been proven that it’s getting harder and harder for men to be aroused unless there’s some violence against the woman they’re trying to have sex with. Men who regularly watched porn had more difficulty getting aroused than men who didn’t. It’s been proven. People reblogged it, and yet people still say this.

And men’s opinions don’t change about strippers/sex workers. They will always see those women as objects for their enjoyment and subsequent disposal. They don’t care whether or not you feel like you “make them pay” to touch you because it won’t change how they feel and honestly, of they don’t like what you do, they’ll just move on to someone else who WILL do what they want.

It’s still men using women for sexual gratification. It’s still men using women as objects and not caring about them afterwards. It’s still men objectifying women. Sex work is empowering for no one.

I am against men/women/whoever being more openly sexual in the media. Why?

1. It is unfair to people who are squicked/fully repulsed by sex and/or nudity to have to see it more

2. It will not change how men view sex workers

3. There is already so much sex in the media

4. I think we should tone it down because sometimes plot gives way to sex scenes and sexual relationships in a series

5. Teenagers will absorb it, see that everyone is being even MORE sexual, and follow suit

6. Some girls (and/or guys) may be pressured into wearing more revealing outfits or doing more sexual things because “famous woman you should emulate number 1” did it and otherwise you would not be “proud of your body”

7. Fuckboys will see women being more open about sex and expect the women they encounter to do the same

8. The whole sexual freedom movement focuses more on the act of doing sexual things and being sexual than respecting those that don’t want to be sexual.

9. It equates sex with sexuality, which is harmful.

10. We can never be sure whether a famous person is actually for the sexual freedom movement or if they’re just doing it for publicity and public favor.

11. America as a culture needs to be less sexualized in general. Everything is sexual and focused on sex. Everything is an innuendo or based on stereotypes or falsified information.

12. It’s great for white feminism, which frequently posts white women in their “accept your flaws” and “all women are amazing!” speeches/ads/arguments while conveniently forgetting to tell WOC that they are included in that group.

12b. Whenever someone brings up race issues within Western feminism, a white feminist always has to try and equate her issues with a WOC’s issues and blame the whole thing on men.

13. If a famous woman poses naked, she’s doing it for feminism and because she wants to, which is empowering. If a model does it, she is being sexualized against her will.

14. Children will see all of it.

15. SERIOUSLY, nobody ever thinks about how children will be absorbing all of this. Sex is already so constant in their media and now we’ll just be making it more available to them. They will continue to see half-naked women on magazine covers while waiting in line at the supermarket with “250 SEX TIPS PG 35” as the main topic. They will still accidentally see porn of their favorite characters or just accidentally see porn in general. They will see phallus and vagina references. They will see all of this and encouraging people to be more openly sexual will NOT help.

I'd be more in support of Planned Parenthood if they didn't perform as many abortions (I'm Pro-life but still trying to figure out where exactly I stand) and if the group was created out of pure racism.

Seriously, look up Margaret Sanger's quotes. She specidically created PP to get rid of "human weeds" (Black people, Asians, and Jewish people). She didn't actually have women's rights in mind.