embracingcalm | Imgur’s community sucks (Reply)

I often want to share photos under a cut or something but my proficiency comes and goes.

So, I attempt, on occasion to keep a slight photo journal on Imgur. Bad idea. Horrible idea. Did you know that those gentleman have systematically cultivated an environment that objectifies women via unofficial rules? Their community rules state outright no suggestive photos it’s within rule 1 and it is never enforced. They also have an unofficial rule of “no selfies”, and themed female objectification days like Tt Tuesday and thigh Thursday in which female imgurians are encouraged to take photos of thier bodies and post them for the pleasure of male users. It doesn’t take a genius to realize this combination of rules and social convention results in a bunch of “sexy” photos of women’s bodies with the head cropped off…. You know… because that’s our fucking level of value to them.to match the theme, anything remotely feminine gets downvoted and sometimes people send death threats. That’s what happened to me this week when I attempted (stupidly as this has happened before) to keep a photo journal there.

I was also harassed about my lifestyle as an artist, house spouse, and person dabbling into non abrahamic religion (apparently the guy who collects videos of neotonized bunny girls thinks all religious people are pedophiles and my mehndi finger caps are proof that I want to inappropriately touch children. Which is clearly a very reasonable stance not borne out of projection at all. *insert eye roll here

All that to say that I may start utilizing this place for that purpose. I’ve become very ostracized and as things get more and more scary I just want to make an effort to make a tiny mark out there, just to say I existed.

Anyway, if you stumbled on my journal and want to add me feel free. I would love to have more contact with other people.