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Readers of this book are not first graders or elementary school kids. Why does this need a trigger warning? Are they going to place trigger warnings on erotic

by mc32 1y ago

Readers of this book are not first graders or elementary school kids. Why does this need a trigger warning? Are they going to place trigger warnings on erotic novels for adults too, now?

perching_aix 1y ago
I dunno man, I think if I went through a bout of suicidal thoughts for a few years, even attempted a few times, I might want to skip on media that features suicide for example. And the only way to do that is if you're given a heads up about it ahead of time. This trigger warning stuff in my view is literally just content labels with some political coating on top. Reminds me to folks rediscovering vending machines in the form of overly complicated and brittle AI robotized fast food restaurants.
- p_ing 1y ago
  You'd think you'd speak for people, too. But you'd be wrong on that point, as well.
  - perching_aix 1y ago
    Am I speaking for people when I want to filter the content that reaches me? How does that work?
XorNot 1y ago
If the erotic novel you were reading suddenly included a whole bunch of the wrong type of erotica for your sexual preferences, you might be somewhat upset that you weren't warned in advance (which should be obvious: story tags have been a thing since Usenet).
- RedShift1 1y ago
  Well if you don't like it you can just... Stop reading?
  - perching_aix 1y ago
    Sounds like a great experience.
tom_ 1y ago
Why not? I expect they're already categorised to some extent - after all, how many straight men would want to read the ones where gay men are fucking each other and sucking each other's cocks and whatnot? - and this would just be an extended version of that. (EDIT: after stepping away from the keyboard, I was struck by the question of how many men of any orientation would want to read erotic novels anyway! - when they could just load up private browsing mode and watch more videos of people doing their favourite nasty shit than they'd ever be able to muster the urge to view to completion. But my view is that the question was dumb enough as posed already without needing to think about it any more. But maybe there's more to unpack here, if anybody is so inclined, which I'm not - though I'll admit that I've instinctively taken a male perspective here, even though that was never specified. Apologies.)

by mc32 1y ago

Readers of this book are not first graders or elementary school kids. Why does this need a trigger warning? Are they going to place trigger warnings on erotic novels for adults too, now?

perching_aix 1y ago

I dunno man, I think if I went through a bout of suicidal thoughts for a few years, even attempted a few times, I might want to skip on media that features suicide for example. And the only way to do that is if you're given a heads up about it ahead of time. This trigger warning stuff in my view is literally just content labels with some political coating on top. Reminds me to folks rediscovering vending machines in the form of overly complicated and brittle AI robotized fast food restaurants.

p_ing 1y ago
You'd think you'd speak for people, too. But you'd be wrong on that point, as well.
- perching_aix 1y ago
  Am I speaking for people when I want to filter the content that reaches me? How does that work?

XorNot 1y ago

If the erotic novel you were reading suddenly included a whole bunch of the wrong type of erotica for your sexual preferences, you might be somewhat upset that you weren't warned in advance (which should be obvious: story tags have been a thing since Usenet).

RedShift1 1y ago
Well if you don't like it you can just... Stop reading?
- perching_aix 1y ago
  Sounds like a great experience.

tom_ 1y ago

Why not? I expect they're already categorised to some extent - after all, how many straight men would want to read the ones where gay men are fucking each other and sucking each other's cocks and whatnot? - and this would just be an extended version of that. (EDIT: after stepping away from the keyboard, I was struck by the question of how many men of any orientation would want to read erotic novels anyway! - when they could just load up private browsing mode and watch more videos of people doing their favourite nasty shit than they'd ever be able to muster the urge to view to completion. But my view is that the question was dumb enough as posed already without needing to think about it any more. But maybe there's more to unpack here, if anybody is so inclined, which I'm not - though I'll admit that I've instinctively taken a male perspective here, even though that was never specified. Apologies.)