#but acting like content warnings are a kind of 'self censorship' or that the ppl who need them are wussy little babies | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

arosnowflake · 6 months ago

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[Image: Tumblr tags reading: #just the words 'content warning' should let you think long and hard about everything that's wrong about how people approach media nowadays #like it's just feed that's gotta be as sanitized as possible #not inconvenience you in the slightest #my brother in christ art is like an earthquake it must make the ground you stand on shake so violently #and make everything you collected in your safe little room of safety fall down and apart #do you understand me #do you want to be shackled forever in a dark cave or do you want to see a sun so bright your eyes burn and you're forever changed. End description.]

soooo glad we're doing "content warnings bad" in a blue hair and pronouns way now /sarcastic. content warnings aren't "sanitizing" things, they literally exist so the content can exist without triggering people or dropping something on them unprepared. "your safe little room" do you not see how this is the exact same rhetoric conservatives use mocking "safe spaces" and how the dumb liberals don't know anything about the Real World. some people like being warned before they hear about heavy topics. some people want to avoid some topics altogether. that is fine. and it is morally neutral to not want to consume triggering content. hope this helps.

#man these types of people are so annoying. 'art is supposed to cause a mental breakdown' it is not actually #there is a difference between being safely challenged by art (good; can feel bad in the short term but is cathartic in the long term)#and unsafely challenged/triggered by art (bad; potentially dangerous on a psychological or physical level)#yeah I believe creators should be able to opt out of content warnings if they so chose (with the exception of strobing lights etc)#(warnings for strobing lights and other things that can cause serious medical harm should always be mandatory)#and I don't believe every work benefits from content warnings. some are actively diminished by them #but acting like content warnings are a kind of 'self censorship' or that the ppl who need them are wussy little babies #chaining themselves to the wall of plato's allegory of the cave bc they're just too scaaaaaaared #is childish behaviour. grow up. some people need different things than you #content warnings allow people to challenge themselves in ways that are safe and productive rather than unsafe and unhealthy #described

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