This reminds me of something I did not post last weekend after spending the time to document what is wrong with the discussion around the "Three Laws of Fandom."
But you are talking about a much larger problem and...
Have you considered the hypothesis that the wank side of Tumblr Discourse(tm) is actually white-on-white policing by people who, in the name of social justice, are mis/appropriating the justified discourse among the Internet of Other while (1) not understanding that the actual discourse among the Internet of Other is a mix of venting and trying (and sometimes failing) to find words that express the discomfort they (we, in my case) have with the society, and (2) wanting to use a single broad brush to paint everything with a fresh and cleansed coat of paint.
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Date: 2016-10-06 03:51 pm (UTC)But you are talking about a much larger problem and...
Have you considered the hypothesis that the wank side of Tumblr Discourse(tm) is actually white-on-white policing by people who, in the name of social justice, are mis/appropriating the justified discourse among the Internet of Other while (1) not understanding that the actual discourse among the Internet of Other is a mix of venting and trying (and sometimes failing) to find words that express the discomfort they (we, in my case) have with the society, and (2) wanting to use a single broad brush to paint everything with a fresh and cleansed coat of paint.