Charlie O’HaraOf all the things that irritate me about Mastodon, the convention for selfies to have a content warning is number one.
Beautiful, wonderful human faces locked behind CONTENT WARNING safety guards is utterly ridiculous.
Human faces locked behind the same category as graphic violence, murder, war. I despise it.
I guess I should have some breakfast as I’m obviously grouchy.
Aegir@awfulwoman I had a similar thing about food and just use a hashtag now. Also, people use a content warning of ‘ec’ and I’m like “what, European Community?”
Thomas Michael Semmler@awfulwoman it’s a double edged sword because it does protect people from (intrusion inducing) triggering situations in some cases. But mental health professionals are also lamenting it because it hinders integrative aspects of trauma therapies :/
@awfulwoman though at the same time, with the inflationary use of therapy speak in some communities, I wonder how much of what is considered a trigger could really be classified as one.
All this to say that I relate to what you’re saying.
@nachtfunke Common trauma inducing topics I can understand being CWed. No one wants depictions of violence, rape, abuse. But hiding of selfies isn’t even wanted by autistic people. It seems to be a memetic virus at this point. 😐
Large Heydon Collider@awfulwoman I hear you. Yet at the same time, a trigger (as in something causing a flashback, or "intrusion") can be any form of sensory input. The strongest one being smells, but even accents, dialects or weather phenomena can be true triggers to people.
I'll put CW's on things that have been known to be common intrusion-inducing triggers and not things like selfies. But yet at the same I also won't be posting selfies anyway so.. xD
@awfulwoman It's very silly
Evil Jim O’Donnell
@heydon @awfulwoman I forgot to add CW: eejit.