Tumblr feelings

[RRJay]

be who you want & think what you want. all these people are random people on the internet.

do whats good for you & stop worrying about what people across the world think of you.

 

[MayorJudyOfZootopia]

"don't believe everything you see on the internet"~Mythbusters

 

[Isabella]

tumblr is a great website but only if you completely avoid the sjw/political side of it
while it's important to educate urself about social and political issues, the majority of the information on tumblr is coming from teenagers who have serious incapabilities when it comes 2 carrying out normal social functions. u will often find the idiots who make those impassioned and bitter posts on tumblr about white ppl being inherently racist and cisgendered people being evil regardless of their personality traits are the same idiots who are like 'my idea of fun in staying in my room on the internet. girls who like to go out and party and do shots are inferior. i read books i hate parties and people'

like for real it's almost like tumblr is just trying to force everyone to believe that some part of them is problematic, it sees things as a scale like oh??? ur a black man?? well yeah i mean the whole world hates you by default but u dont have it as bad as... as black woman!!! they have more oppression points than u. like seriously if you opened a debate on tumblr on who is worse off: a white, straight, cis man with stage IV cancer who has approx. 6 months to live, or a black woman who grew up in a wealthy family with plenty of opportunities, the whole place would just blow up and tbh they'd probably decide the black woman has the worse life because she is a victim of systematic opression or something absolutely ridiculous like that

that part of tumblr is insidiuous and it's really easy to get caught up on it and start finding something wrong in everything u see instead of just accepting things as they are and continuing to live ur life

pretty much this honestly.
the site is garbage for the most part unless you're looking for cute or funny posts, I blacklist many controversial posts bc I simply don't want to see them. majority of them are severely under-sourced or have incorrect information altogether.

politics, news, sexuality, go else where. find a credible place.
also just as a note but since you're at that age where you're just beginning to discover yourself, you likely won't be the same 5 or even 10 years from now. just go with the flow but take tumblr opinions with a grain of salt, also you're not wrong or bad for feeling a certain way about your gender; I think it's becoming more accepted now. At least the good thing of tumblr is there will be support groups and people out there similar to you that you can connect with.

 

[Ayaya]

I think it's great that you realize that Tumblr's way of thinking might not be the best one. People already written some great advices here so I'll just add this: Take everything you see on Tumblr with a grain of salt.

Tumblr ironically is a really toxic and judgemental place if you're not with the proper crowd. Find people who are more tolerate and open-minded to things, and avoid those who are quick to say "X is Y therefore X is awful" People who are willing to hear what the other side has to say are great too. It would be hard keeping an open mind as we are conditioned to quickly judge people based on little that we know of, but if you try to get to know these people, you'll find that things are more complicated than it seems. Nobody is truly black and white.