Hi, I'm Shuna
S-H-U-N-A
Finding inspiration, creativity, love, and happiness in 5 dorky choir nerds.
Smitchy, and Scooter Duder, and Krispy, and Abi, and Kervin
I blogs what I want
The Tumblr will lose many users this will at some point it will hurt in the pocket. But who else will lose is the culture and we who are here.R.I.P Tumblr.My tumblr has helped a lot of people. Many boys came to me. I avoided many suicides. I have helped many boys and men who have never accepted to be gay, because of the family, and today they are free.Every day I get pictures of couples who say they are happy and feel confident to go out on the streets as a couple, because they see in my tumblr, gay couples, living like any other normal couple. And that’s what we are. We are normal, Tumblr. We are not explicit content.
Hello guys. I ask you to read this text.
It is with great sadness that I say that I will have to delete my blog.
After the new rule of tumblr regarding “explicit content”, I will not be in here anymore.
From my point of view, it comes not with the intention of being a secure network, but to move LGBTQs away from networks. I’m not exaggerating!
It’s been some time since I’ve been fighting with tumblr, for marking my publications as NSFW, when in fact it’s just two boys in a simple show of affection.
This is not “explicit content”. Being gay, loving someone of the same sex, is not being “explicit”.
I have my tumblr, since mid 2009 or 2010. It has always been an free and open platform. I came to stop here, precisely because it was a place where I could gather love stories between men, without being censored or despised. A safe place where we could love who we are and who we want.
It’s clear the “cleanup” attempt that tumblr has been trying to make since its sale to Yahoo was signed.
My tumblr has helped a lot of people. Many boys came to me. I avoided many suicides. I have helped many boys and men who have never accepted to be gay, because of the family, and today they are free.
Every day I get pictures of couples who say they are happy and feel confident to go out on the streets as a couple, because they see in my tumblr, gay couples, living like any other normal couple. And that’s what we are. We are normal, Tumblr. We are not explicit content.
I can give another example. This is not my only blog. I have in total five accounts on tumblr. Each one with its distinct content. One of them is my portfolio of photos. Some of my essays are nude. It is not explicit. The human body is not explicit, just by being naked.
In this particular case, several photos with bare female breasts were marked as explicit, but every day our male nipples are exposed and treated normally. The female body is “explicit content,” but the man walks freely with pectoralis the show.
This is not just a way of putting LGBTQs into obscurity, again, it is also a machist. This Tumblr act is a setback.
Not long ago, there was the tool “Safe Mode”, that yes, despite many errors, if it were improved, would be a great tool, and that has full my support.
Tumblr was once a place where artists could expose their arts without being censored by the old fallacy of “this is not art.”
How many illustrators, writers, cartoonists, designers, photographers, among others, who will lose a platform where they can spread their work? This work by the way, which is already left aside, by the “real world.”
The Tumblr will lose many users this will at some point it will hurt in the pocket. But who else will lose is the culture and we who are here.
R.I.P Tumblr.
Oh I’m sorry. This is not art anymore, it is explicit content.
“The double agent for the patriarchy is basically just a woman who perhaps unknowingly is still putting the patriarchal narrative out into the world. Is still benefitting off, profiting off and selling a patriarchal narrative to other women. But it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You know, just because you look like a woman, we trust you and we think you’re on our side, but you are selling us something that really doesn’t make us feel good. You’re selling us an ideal, a body shape, a problem with our wrinkles, a problem with ageing, a problem with gravity, a problem with any kind of body fat. You’re selling us self-consciousness. The same poison that made you clearly develop some sort of body dysmorphia or facial dysmorphia, you are now pouring back into the world. You’re like recycling hatred. I find that really dangerous and I think it’s unacceptable and I don’t care if you’re a woman. I think constructive criticism is needed for anyone to ever evolve. For our gender to evolve we need some sort of constructive criticism. As long as we do it in a somewhat careful way. (…) So many of the worst things in the world have happened motivated by greed. And I just don’t think that’s an acceptable excuse anymore. How much money do you need? Really how much money do you need? How much money do any of these huge influencers who are worth millions or billions sometimes… why are they still promoting appetite-suppressant lollipops to young girls? And it’s not a fight against obesity. They have young, already slim girls, in their adverts for Flat Tummy company, this company that are absolutely everywhere, and they’re even being advertised in some of the most mainstream magazines, women’s magazines, and they have a billboard in Times Square. The money is built on the blood and tears of young women who believe in them, who follow them, who look up to them like the big sister they never had. It’s so upsetting and it feels like such a betrayal against women.”
