Really think something extremely sinister was going down with tumblr in the early 10s where a millions of adolescent girls where introduced to a 'sex positive pro-sex work, pro-kink feminism' that was simultaneously man-hating and subculturally obsessed with rough, violent sex
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Replying to @PYeerk
Two miscellaneous reactions 1. Around this time you saw girls begin to talk about "catching feelings," ie to fall in love with a fuckbuddy. Love as disease. 2. What if this was just the female sexual id, free of old constraints? Not an op but just the collapse of old guardrails
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It's not 'unrestrained' tho, it was something structured by the media environment
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Was it, though? Or was it just an emergent property of Tumblr, which invented the "reblog," even before Twitter had it, and which significantly eased virality. Not saying unscrupulous actors didn't welcome the development; just not convinced it was engineered in advance.
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Put differently, these might be impulses that large numbers of people always harbored, but before mediums like Tumblr it wasn't easy to exchange that kind of stuff at scale. Some of this stuff existed in, for example, harlequin romance novels, an analog format predating tumblr.
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almost everything exists in some small niche, and has existed in some small niche throughout history but if a niche interest suddenly goes wildly mainstream, it's worth looking at the causation behind it being that /particular/ niche that did that
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Before tumblr every woman still liked that but didn't know that every other woman did too In pre-tumblr world the difference between nice girls and bad girls was that nice girls would tell you they wanted to be choked/tied up and bad girls would just dump you for not assuming it
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