FAQ
Questions on Specific Terms:
What are “spoons”? (related to ableism)
Read the original explanation here: http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory-written-by-christine-miserandino/
What is a multiple system? (related to anti-multiplicity)
Basically, it is more than two people in the same body. It is not the same as MPD/DID, although some systems have this.
- For more information, here’s a good starter: http://www.karitas.net/blackbirds/layman/whatis.html
- Here’s a collection of a lot of multiplicity resources: http://healthymultiplicity.com/
What do “cis/cisgender/cissexual” or “trans/transgender/transsexual” mean? (related to anti-trans)
First, here’s a good 101 on the subject: http://tranarchism.com/2010/11/26/not-your-moms-trans-101/
Trans, transgender, and transsexual are all adjectives referring to people whose gender does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. This can include women who were assigned male at birth, men who were assigned female at birth, and people of other genders. The differences between transgender and transsexual vary somewhat by who says it. Trans* is also a form of trans that is considered a more inclusive version.
Cis, cisgender, and cissexual are all adjectives usually referring to people whose gender does match the sex they were assigned at birth. This can include men who were assigned male at birth and women who were assigned female at birth. Cissexual can also be applied to trans people who are not/have not/do not intend to get medical treatments related to their gender.
(if you feel there is a term I should add here, please let me know through the /ask)
Ableism, what is that?
Ableism is the prejudice and power against people with disabilities (either mental, physical, late-in-life, born with, combinations thereof, etc). Much of the world we live in forgets wheelchair access, blind/deaf access, lack of access to education for those with learning disabilities, and other disabilities as well. ~*Trigger Warning for slurs*~ Speech such as ‘idiot’, ‘retard’, etc. are ableist and are considered slurs.
General questions:
Why didn’t you answer my ask?
Make sure to check askfyeahpdp to see if it has been answered there (that goes directly to the tag for all the posts that were asked to fyeahpdp but answered there).
If it or similar asks haven’t been answered there, there are a few options. For one, you may be blocked, occasionally people earn being blocked so we don’t get your messages. If you’ve had an ongoing conversation and have been refusing to listen to what we have to say, at some point we’ll stop answering. Or tumblr may have screwed up and deleted it. Sometimes this happens. :(
Why do you keep posting pictures of [topic]? I want more variety!
Primarily because that’s what’s being submitted. I don’t make many of these, it’s based on what other people make.
Also, something to be aware of is that sometimes people will think of submissions because of a related PDD (or if something big happens in the media), so there can be clusters on a certain subject due to that. Especially if a privilege denier replies to a submission.
If there’s a subject you really want more PDDs on, you can always submit them yourself!
Where do the submissions come from?
People who submit to the tumblr, the #privilegedenyingdude tag, the twitter, and images on the meme generators (PDD, PDG).
How often does fyeahPDD update?
Edited: The queue is set to put up one every hour and a half. If there aren’t any images in the queue due to a lack of submissions, then there won’t be any updates. If the queue runs out and I’m busy/asleep/otherwise unable to put up more, then there won’t be any updates.
Sometimes the tumblr queue breaks and then it gets a lot more sporadic because I have to manually put up submissions.
Why didn’t you post my submission?
So far, there’s only been two I haven’t posted. If a submission is attacking a group, it won’t be posted.
There’s also a very annoying chance that it was eaten by the tumblr queue, this has happened to at least 20 submissions. I apologize for this, but there’s nothing I can do about it and I don’t have a way to know if the queue will be a problem until it starts eating submissions.
You don’t have a tag for my PDD image, will you not accept it?
I try my best to include tags for all privileges/oppressions, but being human I pretty often realize I missed a few. Yes, I will accept ones not listed and if you make a comment about there not being a tag I’ll add it to the image and make sure the tag is an option.
There is a problem that apparently tumblr has a limit to how many tags it’ll show on the submit screen, I don’t know how to get around or otherwise deal with that if the time comes when there are more tags than it’ll take. But it’s still allowed and I’m still willing to manually add the tags if I have to.
What’s with the description text on all the PDDs?
That’s because it’d be fairly hypocritical to be complaining about privilege while flaunting ours. Not everyone is able to see/easily read the text on the PDDs. Heck, there are some where the text is so small I have a hard time seeing what it says! Text can be read by screen readers, is much easier to make bigger and otherwise manipulate, etc. The text is there so that everyone can experience PDD, not just people with the privilege of being able to easily read the macros.
There’s a default description that goes with the Edman image on the submit page. Sometimes people will update it if they use a different image, but more often people just copy/paste it
