Its creepy when a straight person acts as the opposite sex on an online dating app but straight girls think it’s fine to act like men on a gay dating site to meet gay men?
I constantly see these posts where artists complain how they don’t get enough notes/reblogs. And it’s so discouraging and that they just want to stop drawing if they get less that 1000 notes on a pic.
I get it, it’s great when your work is appreciated. EVERYONE loves compliments. But. It’s not the community’s responsibility to constantly boost your ego. It’s not their job to make sure you don’t feel “discouraged” to draw. They don’t have to reblog your drawing if they don’t want to. Nor do they have to write nice things in the tags if they don’t want to. Just to make you feel better. So that you don’t stop drawing. If your work is not reblogged enough, think about why that’s the case. Learn to sell yourself. How else do you think artists in the real world work?
Honestly, if getting less than 1000 notes on a post is enough of a discouragement for you to abandon art altogether, maybe you weren’t all that into it to begin with.
I cannot believe people will insist that genitals = gender while still being so quick to assign genders to things including but not limited to robots, candy, umbrellas and geological features. Why are you more willing to call an M&M female than you are a trans woman?
