I originally wrote this for an internal post on Testumblrone, but given all the crap that’s gone on here in the last 24 hours, I figured I’d share it.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I thought the idea behind Testumblrone was to be firmly tongue-in-cheek, taking the piss out of ourselves and the supposed stereotypical macho macho man.
It’s not meant to be a Girls Suck kind of thing, and when it strays that way it should do so with a knowing wink, and without deliberately provoking women any more than needs be. Yes, they do stupid things and say a hell of a lot of meaningless drivel, but we don’t need to rub that in their face.
If we take the piss out of ourselves, it may show Tumblinas that the kind of material that they’re coming up with is pretty shallow, but with the exception that their posts are in earnest.
This isn’t the kind of blog where we’re just posting pictures of pretty girls or funny crap. It’s a place where we can actually be witty and show our writing/linking skills. It can be taking the piss out of the macho man image, of the perfect man that girls seem to want, out of women, out of everyone.
But most importantly, out of ourselves.
I’m the kind of person that will write something on my personal Tumblelog and then tear it to shreds on here by writing in a different voice. That’s the kind of thing we should be aiming for, not just some lowbrow collection of boobs, guns and beer.
Postscript: I hope this explains what we are/were aiming for. All it takes is one bad egg for things to look bad here. We’re working on an in-house clean-up.
