RIP My Sissy Video Tumblr, and the Self-Discovery That Came With It
It suddenly happened. Tumblr, visit amateur girls unleashed scrambling to get again within Apple's good virtues after being kicked off the app business for supporting the circulation of infant pornography, recently announced that it will adopt a blanket moratorium on "adult material" starting December 17. But although it may appear to be a well-intended act of censorial overreach, Tumblr's incoming ban was inevitable even before SESTA/FOSTA made hosting adult content into a legal time bomb, as an anonymous former engineer told Vox, Tumblr's owners at Verizon forced the measure so they could sell more ads on the platform.Sex workers and erotic artists were quick to condemn the ban, noting in particular the inevitable economic devastation such measures would exact on those doing survival sex work and for whom their accumulated Tumblr followers and customers can ( and often do ) make the difference between eating and going hungry. ( In what one hopes is only a macabre twist of fate, the December 17 deadline falls on the 16th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. )
In another curious fluke of congruence, Tumblr's announcement came a week after The American Conservative ( TAC ) published an essay by Rod Dreher called" Andrea Long Chu's Fake Vagina\ When you remove the shock factor of a person with a penis wanting to be seen and treated as a woman ( or at least something different than a "man" ), most of what's left there is, quite frankly, a pretty standard humiliation kink. And I hope that if CSI has taught us anything, it's that also people who think being disrespected is sizzling receive regard outside of the apartment.
Tumblr isn't the only place where pansy porn lives on the Internet, but once upon a time, it was the place where I and thousands of additional worried, determined trans women consumed it- and afterward, where we could avoid from worrying about what the Rod Drehers and Alice Dregers of the world think about our sex lives and tastes in porn. In mercilessly pathologizing any manifestation of trans masculinity, all they've accomplished is creating the very historical environment in which fresh cis women are forced to turn to spaces like Tumblr's wimp society for any desire at self-expression. For me, it's just one more reminder that cis society isn't ready for trans people to be ourselves. I imagine that Tumblr's porn ban must feel like a victory to them.
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