striders:

anyways i shouldn’t have to post a dissertation containing every single facet of this issue and how i feel about it and neither should you! i can, all at once, inside my own head, feel several different ways about this. i can roll my eyes at horny people lamenting their BDSM feed and also feel horrible and angry for sex workers and artists who make a significant part of their income on tumblr. i can be glad that this literal 13Y+ website is doing something to rid itself of, frankly, a terrifying porn epidemic while also thinking the method it uses is stupid at best and careless at worst. i can think several different things, all at once, and none of them invalidate the others, and it shouldn’t be my responsibility to add footnotes to every thought that i post on here that might only cover a fraction of a thought i may be having at one specific moment in time. i’m literally begging you to allow the people you follow the simple luxury of being human. that’s all.

unthrifty–loveliness:

deermouth:

marsincharge:

Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).

Lmaooo peak white feminist antics.

You can read the most accurate transcript here, alongside the racist edited one.

I was already disgusted just reading about this but looking at the side-by-side comparison of the real speech and the rewrite really brought it home.

See the two versions of her first line below:

wlwellbutrin:

i just want people to know that engaging in disordered eating patterns is harmful and difficult regardless of whether it never morphs into a clinically diagnosable eating disorder, and if you are dealing with any of this you have my utmost sympathy and care. i am so tired of diet culture treating these behaviors as though they’re completely fine as long as they’re not “bad enough.”