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.
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Posts like this one speak to a frustration that I have with Christianity discourse.
For context, I was raised in what I would characterize as a liberal Catholic family. My parents were pretty insistent on church attendance when I was a kid, and I recall my first communion and first confession, as well as the baptism of my youngest brother. I attended catechism classes, where we were definitely taught facts about Catholic doctrine. I sat through hour-long masses every Sunday, where the priest illustrated his sermons with stories from the Bible. My dad actually read Bible stories to me and my siblings when we were little.
I'm still not sure exactly why my family fell away from that, but there was definitely a point when church attendance became truly optional, and I chose "no." I struggled with explaining to myself why I chose "no" for a long time, but eventually concluded that it wasn't just dissatisfaction with that particular church; I just didn't believe in god, and none of what I'd been presented with had successfully convinced me that any of this was real. So I was a teenager with a little more free time on Sunday mornings, but with a decent amount of what I know to be reliable information about what (Roman Catholic) Christian doctrine and practice actually was.
On top of that, I was a reading kid, and if you're the kind of person who has a passing familiarity with history and literature, you will encounter many references to Biblical names, events, and concepts. For better or worse, it's all baked in, and while I would not consider myself an expert in the Christian Bible, I have enough fluency in that field to engage with these things in a way that I don't feel out at sea.
I have often found myself in the position of explaining simple Christian concepts to people who by all rights ought to know as much or more about them as I do. The more this happens, the more strongly I feel that "Christianity" as a concept is losing its coherence in this country. I can imagine a future where Jesus himself is vestigial to American Christianity, and could easily disappear, leaving behind a word that signifies nothing except an ill-defined in-group. You'll have generations born identifying as members of this group, with literally no idea of what brings them together except their opposition to people outside of it.
Christianity could easily become a victim of its adherents' anti-intellectualism, and in so doing obscure a lot of genuinely useful knowledge for non-Christians as well. A lack of curiosity and interest among Christians in their own doctrines and stories, when they are the ones who have the most interest in making sure those things are still properly understood, will make the world a more confounding place.
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