How Tumblr mainstreamed porn culture

(something else I wrote in 2015)

Below is an article I wrote eight years ago. (Here’s another of my 2015 articles I’ve recently re-posted.)

I feel compelled to re-share such material because, obviously, the world needs a reminder that deviant efforts like grooming are not something new.

So, I present my old article here with very minor edits and a few notes: 

This was before the trans agenda — as we all now know it — went into full effect. So, my use of terms like queer theory and liberal feminism pre-date current terms like “non-binary” and all that.

Warning: This piece contains language that can be graphic and disturbing.

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How Tumblr mainstreamed misogyny and rape culture (2015)

I'm not particularly active on Tumblr but when I am, it ranges from radical re-blogs to cute animal vines. Since I occasionally use hashtags like #pornography, #antiporn, #antikink, #antiBDSM, this tendency apparently inspired the Tumblr algorithm to “suggest” I check out a blog called “Inferior Cumsluts.”

I wasn't born yesterday. I know blogs like this exist but my initial response, under the circumstances, was to think it might be a (poorly executed) “satire” blog and that's why Tumblr matched us up. I clicked on the link. 

It was not satire.

What “Inferior Cumsluts” had to offer [sic] was animated GIFs — thousands of them, one after another — from particularly degrading and abusive porn videos.

What I saw were rapid-fire two- to five-second snippets (usually accompanied by sadistic new captions) seemingly designed to de-sensitize and re-program the viewer through sheer overload.

Imagine how easy it would be for, say, a 10-year-old to find such a page.

Imagine the lessons he (and all men) are gleaning from such relentless sensory reinforcement. Imagine blogs like “Inferior Cumsluts” serving as Sex Ed for millions of boys.

Imagine how many of the men you know (and perhaps love) have images and ideas like this imprinted on their psyche.

After so much imagining, I got the ambitious idea to scroll through the notes and provide a comprehensive list of what's out there. Hey, if Tumblr imposed this blog on me, at least I’d do something productive with it.

Best laid plans, and all that…

After cutting and pasting the names of 10 blogs dedicated to normalizing extreme sexual violence while reinforcing inevitable male supremacy, I was done.

Thus, I can only hope the way-shorter-than-planned list below is enough to give the uninitiated a clear glimpse into the predatory paradigm of patriarchal propaganda, enough to motivate you to recognize the crisis and take action.

These are the Tumblr blogs I found in less than one minute of scrolling:

• Violent rape fantasies

• Subhuman bait slut

• Inferior little cunt

• Rape Meat Diaries

• Misogyny Style

• A Girl’s Guide to Inferiority

• Feminist Rapist

• I corrupted your daughter

• Worthless Cum Dumpster

• Violence makes my dick hard

I stopped after “Violence makes my dick hard” because, well… because. It just doesn’t get any clearer than that, right?

This is what the unchecked spread of pornography has wrought. (Aided by the unchecked spread of queer theory and liberal feminism, but that's another article.)

Think about it: A generation of tech-addicted males has opted to use a major chunk of their time to create and maintain web pages that will program the next generation of even more tech-addicted males to casually and reflexively view females as inherently inferior; to discredit and mock their feelings and opinions and needs; to overwrite their realities, gaslight them, abuse them, threaten them, stalk them, degrade them, exploit them, torture them… to hate them.

We're not only being conditioned to believe that sex and violence are indistinguishable but also that women and girls crave both. And this “reality” should/must arouse us. If it doesn't, well... you know what that means.

I wish I could end this article by telling you I've conjured up some kind of “solution.” But all I can offer, for now, is the urging of readers — especially males — to rapidly commence the journey of reclaiming our humanity and our souls. 

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Here we are, eight years later. Tumblr banned porn in 2018 (a financial decision, not a moral stance) but the damage was already done.

We’re in a spiritual war, folks, and there is no neutral.

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