u/existentialglitch

My Tumblr account seems to have been restricted after I sent the same link to a lot of people in a short period of time.

It's been about two days now, and these are the issues I'm having:

- My message/chat bar has disappeared.

- Comments/replies I've made on posts are no longer visible.

- My posts don't show up under any tags I use.

- Other people can't seem to find my tagged posts either.

I assumed it was a temporary restriction and waited, but nothing has changed.

Has anyone experienced this before? Is this Tumblr's spam filter, a shadowban, or something else? Did it resolve on its own, or did you have to contact support?

Okay... so I've been thinking about this for a few days.

I was coming back from college and happened to meet two of my old classmates. We started talking and found out that all three of us read the same genre of books. Obviously, we got excited and started discussing characters, theories, books we've read, books we hated, all that stuff.

There was a man sitting behind us. He first asked us to lower our voices, which was fair enough, so we did. But after a while he told us to stop talking altogether. We stopped immediately and didn't say anything back.

The thing is, I travel a lot. I've sat through men loudly discussing politics, cricket, family matters, and sometimes things I definitely did not need to hear. Yet somehow... when I think about people being told to be quiet, it's usually women.

Maybe this particular incident had nothing to do with gender. Maybe the man was just irritated. But it made me wonder if we're subconsciously more comfortable with men taking up space in public than women.

Because honestly, three girls talking about books doesn't seem like the biggest disturbance public transport has ever witnessed.