Belatedly, Tumblr has actually provided details of posts they’ve flagged as flouting their silly new community guidelines so that at least we can appeal. Guess what? They’ve flagged about 20 of my OPs or reblogs. By my reckoning, 2 of these at most could possibly-be-just-about-construed-as-maybe-flouting-the-new-guidelines.
Things Tumblr’s algorithm has flagged:
• Marriage-equality posts, featuring no peen, nor any other guideline-flouting content.
• Rupert Graves’s face in H. G. Wells’ The Moth (zero nudity of any kind), peering at the titular moth (which, OK, is a reincarnation of James Wilby’s character, but it’s a moth).
• Occasional fleeting non-sexual nudity.
• One piece of tasteful FANART which happens to include a discreetly DRAWN, extremely non-detailed, flaccid peen.
• Some Maurice posts but not others which feature male nipples and general tenderness … but still no peen.
• Fully-clothed Maurice content, including boxing Maurice (what the actual fuck?)
• A rear-view, non-sexual, vintage rare nude photo of Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant (no genitals, no nipples, just a skinny white butt).
• The film poster for Different for Girls. No nudity.
• The film poster for Fassbinder’s Querelle. Still no nudity, though does include a bit of phallic architecture.
• Queer artist Paul Cadmus’s important 1947 allegorical PAINTING What I Believe, inspired by E.M. Forster’s 1939 anti-totalitarian, humanist political essay of the same title. Here’s a description:
A 1938 essay by English humanist E. M. Forster inspired the title of this painting. Written during the regimes of Hitler and Mussolini, the essay calls for tolerance and goodness over violence and cruelty.
In What I Believe, two standing figures separate the worlds of good (left side) and evil (right side). Seated on the left are Paul Cadmus, who is drawing, and Jared French, a long-time friend and fellow artist. Standing behind them are French’s wife, Margaret, and Forster. In the background, the man playing the flute with a cat on his head is Lincoln Kirstein, the artist’s brother-in-law and a well-known art patron who started the American Ballet Company with George Balanchine. The artist’s sister, Fidelma, who was Kirstein’s wife, and herself an accomplished painter, rests her head on her husband’s leg. Cadmus presents symbols of art, literature, music, and architecture as the world of good. In the center far distance, a beaming lighthouse symbolizes the Enlightenment.
Tumblr, are you embarrassed yet?
Tumblr being... well, stupid.
