There’s a lot of Proper English things they teach in english classes that do nothing but make for boring writers, and the worst by far is saying that it’s bad form to begin a sentence with the word “but.” It’s both grammatically coherent and also a pleasant way to set up a punchy sequence of sentences. Fuck the Académie Française and its Anglo-Saxon wannabes, you can phrase whatever you want however you want until you die
The victorian era was SO much worse than you think
The thing about both is that it’s like… if you think of the past like “oh everyone was dirty and stinky and stupid” you’re wrong, they were just people. And also there’s this tendency to think of Progress as a completely linear process from Worse to Better when that really isn’t the case
The victorian era was sooooo deeply fucked up but it’s like, it’s fucked in ways that don’t really make it into pop culture as much as other things that aren’t really true
Corsets were fine, actually, some people find them more comfortable than modern bras depending on their personal needs. Everything Was poisonous. People weren’t really shitting in the streets though. Victorian medicine was even worse than you think. There was like a lot of really weird racism happening. Etc
someone tell the tumblerinas that you can raise an issue without deliberately guilt-tripping everyone about it
okay, I take it back. I don’t think everyone is doing this deliberately. some of it is so deeply entrenched in tumblr culture that you probably don’t always notice you’re doing it
“nobody’s talking about this” -> you can just delete this phrase
“if you can’t reblog this, unfollow me” -> you can also delete this one
“x group can, and should, reblog this” -> remove the “should”. or you know. delete the entire sentence
your post will still spread all the important information without the guilt-tripping parts, I promise
if an otherwise valid post tries to guilt trip me it’s a pass on the rb, sry.
