#and don't i know masks are poisoning the american people? 🙄

[lettersiarrange]

hey are you a terf ? you've been reblogging stuff from radfems ...

No, I'm not a terf, I support trans people 100%. Also terfs are uncomfortably cozy with the alt-right and that's uhhh... a whole other layer of awful.

But I think I may be following a secret terf? Tumblr keeps showing me these posts that are like "liked by someone you're following!" And I follow 4k people so I'm not like. Keeping track of anyone but my mutuals. And some of the posts tumblr shows me are obviously terfy which makes me go HMMMM but then some of them seem fine? So it's hard for me to tell the difference between "posts tumblr reccomends me that are normal and in line with the regular leftist and feminist things I'm into" vs like "posts tumblr reccomends me because they're liked by whatever secret terf I'm following and have suspicious undertones that aren't immediately obvious to me". I'm certainly not intentionally following any terfs or following anyone who publicly identifies as a terf* or puts terf shit on my dash but I'm apparently following someone who doesn't blog about terf shit but LIKES terf shit (and I think it might be a fandom blog so that makes it harder to identify) and then those likes show up on my dash and it's not always obvious that it's terf shit or from a radfem blog-- it's just a random posts from a url I don't know. And sometimes the posts themselves are fine on the initial read.

So pls let me know what the radfem blogs in question are so I can identify and remember them if they pop up on my dash again

*caveat that I've been on this website for 10+ years and follow 4,000+ people and it's theoretically possible that a blog I followed multiple years ago that I never see on my dash now publicly identifies as a terf, but I'm not gonna go through all 4k of my following to try and find out if any of them have become publicly shitty in a way that doesn't affect my dash in the years since I've followed them. People get unfollowed as they bring shitty views to my attention. Hence the conundrum with the undercover terf bc they don't post terf shit, they just like it.

#*but how do you not immediately recognize terf dogwhistles!* you may ask #well. I've found when it comes to any toxic community like terfs or antivaxxers or incels or qanon or antisemitic leftists or WHATEVER #familiarizing myself with the discourse to the point that I'm An Expert In All The Secret Signals is uhhh... #pretty corrosive for my mental health #I'd much rather know Enough to recognize more obvious and popular talking points but otherwise stay a billion feet away #knowing all the Secret Signals involves an engagement with the nuance of their arguments that i am simply not mentally capable of #like it is Too Distressing #and I've found that as long as i can still recognize the more well-known signs of toxicity and steer clear... #i usually successfully avoid coming into contact with the toxicity #and like. I don't think my disabled friend's lives would be better by me becoming an expert in horrific eugenicist arguments and their lingo #nor do I think my trans friends lives would be improved by me becoming an expert on terf language and arguments #total respect for people who do for the purposes of fighting the good fight and warning everyone else #but couldn't be me. I'm sensitive and any amt of cruelty virtriol and toxicity just really Affects me #and my parents are qanon conspiracists so I'm already over the limit from being forced to hear abt whatever new #horrible conspiracy is going thru qanon every week. last week it was that i should Stockpile Food for Sept and Oct bc #Something Might Happen and i should be prepared #and don't i know masks are poisoning the american people? 🙄 #anyway props to people who know how to spot a terf from 100 ft based on how they walk #but it doesn't click for me until they open their mouths and start saying gender essentialist shit #(like. when i joined reddit in college I didn't know *gender critical* meant *terf* and was horrified to find out) #so no I don't have every radfem blog memorized so would appreciate warnings abt them #I've mostly been fairly happy in my non-hate-group tumblr bubble #asks