Tumblr: Snowflakes or Emotionally unstable, or both?

Started by Jannabear, March 29, 2016, 06:14:49 PM

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Jannabear

It's a common topic whenever someone mentions LGBT issues, is tumblr primarily consisting of people faking being LGBT, are they just emotionally unstable and oversensitive, or are they trying to be snowflakes by flaunting the fact that they're LGBT.
(I'm aware not all of tumblr is like this)
Thoughts?
(The same may apply to mental illnesses and other things, and even the otherkin phenomena (I'm aware otherkin aren't fucking animals, but do you think they have an actual interest in it)

Mermaid

Everyone has their own thing. What matters to someone else may not matter to you, and vice versa. What upsets you may not upset other people, and vice versa. I think it's fundamentally disrespectful to wave it away as someone being "too sensitive" though. People feel how they feel.
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities â€" all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. -TR

Nonsensei

I think this conversation can't really proceed without an objective example to talk about.
And on the wings of a dream so far beyond reality
All alone in desperation now the time has come
Lost inside you'll never find, lost within my own mind
Day after day this misery must go on