abandon ship: [Original post title: "Tumblr cares more about ableism and gender issues than it does about people being murdered by the...

jhameia:

haterina:

janedoe225:

noumenology:

seriously, every time I log on here, I see people talking about fucking first-world problems and how whether or not calling someone insane is abelist or whether because its a mental disability versus a physical one and…

Um… you _do_ realize that tumblr only shows you the blogs you choose to follow, right? It’s not like an MSNBC where content is supposed to be representative of world news; it’s a place where people write down their thoughts on whatever their interests may be.

The term for this phenomenon is Market Segmentation. You would do well to look it up before flying off the handle on a bunch of people creating content they enjoy at no cost to you (and no compensation for themselves). If you want to read about people being murdered in Egypt, follow one of the numerous blogs written by people with direct contact with the situation. If you want to read about rapists and murders, follow one of the many blogs critical of rape and unrepentant killers. I assure you there are people out there who generate this content because they find it enjoyable/fulfilling, and they honestly _want_ you to find and read their work.

I write for one of the largest LGBT blogs in the nation - we get 3 million hits a year. People who access our website aren’t looking to hear about Cairo or Tunisia or whatever - they are looking to read a specialized, fractionalized blog about LGBT issues. We can’t do justice to the riots or to on-the-street reporting because we aren’t organized that way; without correspondents, equipment, or a travel budget we are entirely reliant on the information collected by large-scale journalism outfits, and thus any commentary would be tertiary and littered with our own opinions. It’s not that we don’t care about people being murdered; it’s that we’re better equipped to talk about LGBT issues, gender issues, and all those other “first world problems” that, despite your perception that they are insignificant and irrelevant, are still problems to the people that navigate them.

I guess this is all a nice, roundabout way of saying “STFU, you’re assuming one little hovel of tumblr is representative of the whole.” Or, in an even tighter TL;DR: “I know Marketing 101. Your argument is invalid.”

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