me: everyone got a bad grade on that
parent: we’re not talking about everyone, we’re talking about you
me: this is bourgeois individualism in its most dangerous form
I used to get mad when men would make jokes about how women’s periods make them irrational, but now I just remember that during Victorian times, a table’s legs were thought to arouse men so they invented table cloths to cover them up so men wouldn’t get erections during dinner
I might cry for no reason but at least I’ve never gotten a BONER for a fucking TABLE
Haphaestus is disabled and has some mental illness(es)
Gaia is black/has dark skin
Hades is disabled
Zeus is a rapist [ on multiple occasions ]
Eros is pansexual
Athena is most likely asexual
Dionysus is bisexual
all of the nymphs are nonbinary
Persephone is the goddess of spring growth
Thanatos is the god of death, not Hades
A few more:
Artemis is most likely asexual and aromantic (some interpretations lend themselves to demisexual)
Poseidon is also a serial rapist
In fact, the only one of the Big Three who isn’t is Hades
Hades is not a terrible person (certainly not when compared to his family)
Persephone is scarier/more widely feared than Hades ever was
Apollo is not straight
Zeus is not straight
Heracles is not straight
Eros has a twin brother named Anteros, and he is the god of requited love
Since Persephone is woc it follows that at least one of her parents (Zeus and/or Demeter) is also poc
Hera is not a “nagging wife” she is one of many of Zeus’ victims, and she takes her (justified) anger out on the wrong person
Thanatos is the god of peaceful death
Hestia exists. And is important.
The amount of bullshit is hella strong here. Okay, I admit, there are true informations here but to not know them you have to not have contact with european culture at all or be a moron without basic education. The main problem with this post is interpretation of the religion and myths in ourdays and most probably tumblr-american way and thinking there is only one true version of myths. Persephone and Gaia poc? Yeah, sure, white people would imagine the personifications of natural forces in poc way even if the poc they’ve seen were slaves or barbarians (for those who don’t know – the barbarian for Greeks was a person who didn’t share Greek culture, religion and language). Of fucking course. Hephaestus had a mental illness? Bitch where??? If being grumpy and loner counts, congratulations, you just self-diagnosied a lot of healthy people. Hades disabled? Have you ever seen disabled person or you’re just mistaking Hades with his nephew? Asexual, bisexual, nonbinary… – what the fuck? Ancient Greeks had no fucking idea about such terms. Not having any sexual partner isn’t a proof of being asexual. Asexuals even can have sex and enjoy it in some way, do you have an idea?? Banging a guy isn’t a proof for being gay/be, especially in greek culture in which having a male lover was some kind of fashion and a way to create important social bonds. Also the gay myths were most probably created later, to justify homosexual contacts which became popular in Greek culture, especially in Athens. I won’t defend rapists (btw, not only Zeus nor Poseidon but also Hades in some versions of myths, Hermes, Apollo and a lot of other fucking males here and I’d probably found some females but I’m not sure here) but what we treat as a rape today could be treaten completely different by ancient Greeks. Not to mention that there’s strong and popular theory that rapes in the mythology are the proofs of rivalizations between old and new religions in which rape is the symbol of old ones becoming submitive to the new ones.
Mythology isn’t a book you can just read and interprate the fuck you want. It’s the echo of thousands years of the culture and religion of people who used to live and thought about themselves as Greeks in this example. Treating Homer or Hesiod literally is the same as treating literally the Bible. Using the culture the way you like to is the same thing we all critizie here but reversed – when popculture takes elements from the cultures (mostly poc buuut cross for example anyone?? vampires??) and remakes them to match the fashion. How would you like if people on tumblr took smth from YOUR culture and interprate it the way they like to? Or look at your life and know better than you about yourself?
Do not believe tumblr. It’s a shitty place. A lot of toxic people write here and try to convice you they are wise and nice etc. No. They’re just the second side of the mirror. Do not believe facts written here. Yes, do not believe things I’ve said except that “do not treat and judge people the way you want but the way they think”. Take the sources in your own hands and read them with thinking.
I think I might have mentioned this several times before but I’ll talk about it again. Someone who has a supposedly normal worldview can easily be turned into a paranoid mess who over analyzes the hell out of anything just so they have a sense of being “aware” about social issues. If you don’t nitpick at everything and cry sexism, racism, ableism, or any -ism possible, then you’re not “aware” or ~**~*~educated~***~**~* enough. Anyone who isn’t like that is ostracized until they can make themselves aware under Tumblr’s standards.
The frequent posts about how women should fear men, how all white people must have a vendetta against “poc”, or how anyone ‘oppressed’ should just be skeptical about anyone ‘privileged’ makes it worse. The more you see these posts, the more you start to believe them. It ultimately fucks with your self esteem and makes you miserable.
It’s funny because people on here like to talk about being empowered. I don’t see empowerment anywhere; it quite the opposite actually. There’s nothing empowering about constant paranoia and isolating yourself from people who think differently.
Tumblr is a cult. It operates much the same way any cult does, and the damage it does is also comparable. Ever notice how almost every cult or reactionary movement lures people in with an appeal to some sense of unique hyper-awareness? “Look at you, surrounded by a sea of ignorant sheeple, but you, you alone are special. You alone understand.“ Human psychology is designed to lap that shit up, and so everyone from cults to paranoid 9/11 truthers do it because it works. Tumblr does it too; we just call it “woke” instead of “redpilled.”
From there, that usually gets reinforced through Skinner box-like conditioning the deeper into the movement you get. Scientology is so hugely successful because they just straight up attached MMO statistics to what level Clear you are, thus cornering the market on religiously suggestible people who love watching stat bars go up.
The problem in Tumblr’s case is that there is direct harm and serious mental damage being inflicted as your ~awareness~ goes up. Tumblr tells groups they are oppressed, that they can never get into STEM fields or earn an equal paycheck, that they can’t even check their mail or take their garbage out to the curb without their keys between their knuckles and 911 on speed dial just in case. Tumblr, by doing its best impression of Mother Gothel from Tangled, does more to keep women in the kitchen than The Patriarchy ever could.
I know people whose lives have been ruined by this site. Most of them now struggle with various combinations of white guilt, male guilt, etc. and a newfound inability to go a single day without worrying about how ~problematic~ everything they see, hear, and experience is. I can’t remember the last time any of them were happy. This is what happens when you level up in any cult, but especially this one.
Please, whoever may be reading this, please think for yourself, Google any outrageous claims you hear to make sure they’re actually true and you have the whole story before you react, and make careful, informed decisions about the issues. There’s nothing wrong with seeing some moral outrage post on Tumblr, looking it up, looking into it, and deciding that yeah, you agree, that is pretty fucked up. There’s also nothing wrong with seeing some moral outrage post on Tumblr, looking it up, looking into it, and deciding that no, this post is wrong. Take things case by case and follow your conscience. And if taking a stand on something gets you any heat? If Tumblr anons reject you for what you believe? Good. That means you dodged the bullet that would have happened had you actually fallen deeper in with that crowd, as explained above. It means you’re free.
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