Personal stuff, & a trip down the 'dark' side of Tumblr

I'm starting to wonder if I've developed some sort of general anxiety because of law school. It's not bad enough to result in panic attacks and physical symptoms (...yet), but I find myself worried and feeling uneasy nearly all the time, and to put it mildly, it really doesn't feel good. It sucks to constantly have a voice in my head telling me that I've failed/going to fail at everything, that everything I write is worthless/inarticulate/stupid/accidentally offensive.

I've been trying to have a "Tumblr detox," so to speak, since (as I mentioned in a previous post) Tumblr has been the catalyst, if not exclusive cause, of my current anxiety. But it's like trying to quit an addiction/unhealthy habit, and so far I haven't been that successful. Today, oddly enough, I happened to stumble upon what I call the "dark side" of Tumblr—namely, r a d f e m and T E R F blogs (I'm spacing the words out in the hopes that they won't appear in a Google search, and from here on out I'll refer to them as RF/T-RF respectively). Up till now, I had actually been unfamiliar with what the RF/T-RF position was, except I had a notion that they were considered Bad by the "liberal"/"SJW" portion of Tumblr.

Well, today I finally found out. And yes, they are very transphobic, and it's bad.

But their idea that "gender is constructed"?

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