Tumblr-Centric

[queer_scribbling]

(Relatedly, I have much to lament about nonbinary discourse so often taking place on Tumblr [1], and I think these are the consequences of that [2].)

- From a recent comment thread on a post from before I appeared on the Pillowfort scene.

Yes, I found this from Coy's hitching post. I could probably comment on the post itself, but I'm more pulling this out in a 'maybe come back to this' sense. I have a draft that's been collecting some dust from earlier in 2020 called 'Reasons Why I’m (Jokingly) Disowned From Nonbinary Tumblr Spaces' because I didn't click with a section of nonbinary tumblr I tried looking into at one point. I'm not entirely sure it has actual relevance to Coy's original post or the comment thread discussion, but I've been trying to think of how to translate some old gender related posting into a 'hey, I should probably mention this on this new platform' post of some sort.

This post is a cross between 'that linked tumblr post is interesting' and a heads up that I might write about this sometime before 2020 ends.

Archival note: I did not, in fact, write about this before 2020 ended. Some of these links seem to be from publicly visible but rather personal posts, so I only have two archival links:
[1] How Using Tumblr is Undermining Your Community, archived Pillowfort post or WordPress post.
[2] Re: lack of a nonbinary community, archived Tumblr post.

Comments

[queer_scribbling]

From a thread branching off a reply:

It's more that I just didn't get the point of certain systems* that came across like 'I want to communicate something that could utilize feminine/masculine without actually using those words' to me,

I was under the impression that this was the reason these systems were created. Is there another reason?

I haven't had the best of luck with finding archived posts about the creation of these systems (linking to the tumblr post but not an archived version of the tumblr post while it's still up is not helpful later), but I did note somewhere above in another comment that at least one of them has a line about butch and femme being lesbian only terms in the wiki page.

On a personal level, I just don't click with creating a word to mean masculine or feminine without using those words, but I can understand that some people feel more comfortable with that. On a non-personal level, I think there's a difference between that situation and a stance that only lesbians can use the word butch or femme, so nonbinary people *have* to create a new, separate system. (I can't remember when I first saw that on tumblr, but I do tend to associate that with certain tumblr discussions that I'm not sure if or how far outside of tumblr they traveled.)