Tumblr Staff Just Loves Deleting And Banning Trans Women With Virtually No Explanation And No Warning - Tumblr Posts
charlotte is one of the most popular and influential bloggers of the last several years on this site. she's been consistently putting out nothing but good vibes, to the extent that i'd credit her with changing the site's culture a bit. part of the broader trend away from constant negativity. there's literally no excuse for deleting her account
Terminating someone as kind and inoffensive as charlotte is a clear message just like all these other terminations to all the other transfems on this site that you are next. It doesn’t matter if you stay out of drama and are a good friend, just by simply existing you are incurring the wrath of those who don’t want your kind around. Whether this message is more from tumblr staff or people mass reporting behind the scenes it doesn’t matter. You can be pushed out of any space that deems you've made a mistake at the drop of a hat.
@staff @humans please show the exact offending post where tumblr user @charlottan engaged in quote "targeted abuse or harassment" or "targeted sexual harassment". If the report was user generated, surely the reported post was flagged. What exactly was she deleted for?
@humans Charlotte's ban was clearly the result of bad faith reporting. She more than deserves her blog back.
I think I have two more things to say about this.
This isn't just a case of tumblr staff transphobia this is more than likely (not confirmed yet but I'm fairly confident this is accurate, my point remains regardless) a result of targeted mass reporting by folks who saw a single innocuous joke about incest which was deleted later and decided Charlotte was a horrible person who deserved punishment. The end lesson shouldn't only be "Lets kill Matt Mullenweg with hammers" but also "Trans women are forced to live in a constant state of fear of being labelled as One Of The Bad Trannies by societal forces which perceive trans women as aggressive sexual perverts and institutional forces which give easy access for bad actors to punish them. I need to analyze my behavior in this pattern and be aware if I am working with or against this problem."
Charlotte was a super kind soul but this would still be unwarranted and awful if it happened to any trans asshole. I support trans women who suck, I support trans women who are annoying, I support trans women who are scary, I support trans women who I can't stand, I support trans women who are lame and bitchy and pieces of shit, I support trans women who are aggressive or off-putting or mean. Trans women who are assholes deserve the same rights and privileges of any other asshole on the planet.