Wow, I hate that victim blaming thought process. If you don’t want to get run over by a car, you shouldn’t have left your house. If you don’t want to get rped, you shouldn’t have gone out into the world where rpists are.
Edit: my attempts to soft censor to avoid triggering have resulted in some interesting formatting
I’m confused. Does sensoring the word rape or rapist prevent a triggering event? I seriously doubt that removing a letter makes any measurable difference. If anything, I feel like it would make things harder for rape victims trying to avoid reading about rape in some fashion. If they were to filter content by ‘rape’ or ‘rapist’, rpe and rpist would slip through the filters.
Fair enough. I’m not arguing. Just genuinely confuses me, but I can’t put myself in that frame of mind so I’ll take your word for it. I can’t say that I’ll self censor in that manner because I think there’s inherant value in not ‘shying away’ from calling it what it is. But I can say at least I learned from the other side of the fence.
Lemmy operates more on Tumblr rules where you write out the word and people who don’t want to see it have already filtered it out in their settings. I think shorthand SA would have been fine. Hexbear rules would have you wrap the whole thing in a CW:SA spoiler and use SA in the body, which works. There’s no perfect solution. Your comment looks especially bad because your asterisks made a block of text italic (if that happens you should put a \ before them like this \*).
There was a whole thing in the Tumblrsphere apparently about zoomers, used to self-censoring from years elsewhere, bypassing the filters and reaching people who don’t like want to see that stuff, by using increasingly arcane or goofy replacements. The genie is out of the bottle now on that, and it’s just part of online communication now, but it’s interesting how we moved backwards on this.
Personally I think making readers guess the letter a in the word won’t make a difference. But if this makes you feel like you really made the world a better place for assault victims then knock yourself out.
Ah yes the preventable or malicious actions of humans are totally equatable with literal wild animals existing in their habitat. Those things you list happen while people go about their normal every day lives, you cant avoid them as long as you want to participate in society. To get killed by a bear in this forest you need to actively decide to go there and disregard the warnings. If you die there you are 100% responsible for your own death and maybe even that of the bear that may need to be put down because of your idiotic intrusion into its territory.
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Wow, I hate that victim blaming thought process. If you don’t want to get run over by a car, you shouldn’t have left your house. If you don’t want to get rped, you shouldn’t have gone out into the world where rpists are.
Edit: my attempts to soft censor to avoid triggering have resulted in some interesting formatting
We are allowed to spell words out here… Your comment isn’t being monotized, the advertisers can’t hurt you.
It’s more about not triggering someone
I’m confused. Does sensoring the word rape or rapist prevent a triggering event? I seriously doubt that removing a letter makes any measurable difference. If anything, I feel like it would make things harder for rape victims trying to avoid reading about rape in some fashion. If they were to filter content by ‘rape’ or ‘rapist’, rpe and rpist would slip through the filters.
Just something a victim passed on to me, afterwards the word triggered her. It’s a very small thing to do.
Fair enough. I’m not arguing. Just genuinely confuses me, but I can’t put myself in that frame of mind so I’ll take your word for it. I can’t say that I’ll self censor in that manner because I think there’s inherant value in not ‘shying away’ from calling it what it is. But I can say at least I learned from the other side of the fence.
Lemmy operates more on Tumblr rules where you write out the word and people who don’t want to see it have already filtered it out in their settings. I think shorthand SA would have been fine. Hexbear rules would have you wrap the whole thing in a CW:SA spoiler and use SA in the body, which works. There’s no perfect solution. Your comment looks especially bad because your asterisks made a block of text italic (if that happens you should put a
\before them like this\*).There was a whole thing in the Tumblrsphere apparently about zoomers, used to self-censoring from years elsewhere, bypassing the filters and reaching people who don’t like want to see that stuff, by using increasingly arcane or goofy replacements. The genie is out of the bottle now on that, and it’s just part of online communication now, but it’s interesting how we moved backwards on this.
Personally I think making readers guess the letter a in the word won’t make a difference. But if this makes you feel like you really made the world a better place for assault victims then knock yourself out.
That was both informative and condescending. Thanks, I guess?
Ah yes the preventable or malicious actions of humans are totally equatable with literal wild animals existing in their habitat. Those things you list happen while people go about their normal every day lives, you cant avoid them as long as you want to participate in society. To get killed by a bear in this forest you need to actively decide to go there and disregard the warnings. If you die there you are 100% responsible for your own death and maybe even that of the bear that may need to be put down because of your idiotic intrusion into its territory.
Wage slave, stay in your natural habitat of an urban hellscape please. Accumulate capital for the greater good.
Danger! You are leaving your comfort zone! Danger! Go back to your natural habitat!
Danger! Discovered non-average bahaviour of wage slave 35462C3! Danger!
Humans are literally animals. To get run over by a car, you need to go out to their natural habitat, roads.