queeranarchism:

queeranarchism:

Microaggressions are often represented as little pokes throughout
the day that eventually leave you bruised and tired. In that scenario one micro-aggression
isn’t bad, but a hundred of them are.

But
microaggressions are reminders that there is a force present that threatens your survival. So a single micro-aggression can send your survival instinct into ‘ALERT. THREAT TO SURVIVAL DETECTED’ mode which
sends your whole emotional system into overdrive.

A microaggression is a reminder that you are not safe. That’s why a single microaggression can hit you like a truck.

The notes on this post provide another really good block-list.

Apparentl quite a few of the kind of people that complain about ‘sensitive snow-flakes’ (but who themselves go and seek out things to be offended at…) are now following the microaggression tag. pathetic.

But hey, if you wanna avoid them or annoy them, use this knowledge to your advantage.

This post is also a very good example of how to use reblog graphs to effectively block shitty people. When you look at the reblog pattern:

feminists-against-feminism was the first to reblog with an anti-SJW message and all other messages that followed are in that reblog chain. So feminists-against-feminism is probably the user currently following various tags to bring them to the attention of this audience.

Some reblogs stand out as blogs that leads to a lot of other reblogs, like this lovely post by klubbhead with a big old ableist slur in it:

So if you want to effectively block this audience but you don’t have a lot of time for all that clicking, you don’t need to block all of them, you just need to block feminists-against-feminism and the blogs like klubbheads. The people who write hateful things but don’t generate new reblogs are less important.

Doing this won’t impact how far this particular post travels but it will help you the next time. You can use this technique to limit your exposure to online harassment, to frustrate trolls and to isolate terfs and other shitty groups trying to spread nasty and manipulative shit in your community.

If the shitty replies on a post feel overwhelming, you can also use this graph to visualize all the – often silent – reblogs from people who liked what you wrote. The people in the red shape below are mostly not commenting but all reblogged my post because they liked its content. They outnumber the noise.

You can find the reblog graphs function at Settings -> Labs Settings -> Enable Tumblr Labs -> Reblog Graphs