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Jun. 24th, 2009 09:42 amFandom can be wonderful. It has provided me with friends, companionship, entertainment, and a place where I could be myself. Fandom can also be a really awful place, with self-centered, entitled people willfully putting their interests above other people's well-being. Guess which side's winning out right now? (Not to say that everybody in fandom is a bunch of wankers, but the wankers are being v. vocal right now.)
Fandom is a strange and weird place, and sometimes that's a totally good thing. The ability to discuss the obscure shit nobody else cares about? Awesome. The flip side of the strange and weird is when swimming around in the fishbowl makes a person disregard comments saying "Through your direct action or inaction, you are doing something that is hurting me. Please stop." What kind of douche do you have to be to dredge up some argument about artistic integrity rather than put up the fucking warning? As![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dira said, "A story about a triggery topic which can only be enjoyed without a trigger warning is not a good story to begin with."
The thing that also totally makes me tweaky is how warnings are considered implied judgment. Bullshit. Warnings are ways to help determine if you're able or willing to handle something out of your comfort zone. For example, the first part of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rm and kalichan's (fabulous) I Had No Idea I Had Been Traveling has some D/S and pretty hardcore breathplay. Even not having had traumatic or triggering experiences in my life, this was a pretty intense story that I would not have wanted sprung on me without knowing what was inside. The experience of a story is a partnership between the writer and the reader, and it seems very much inequitable to not give the reader the tools they need to deal with their stuff.
I don't know. It just feels like a lot of rules of online discourse are boiled down to "Don't be a dick," and a lot of people are being dicks.
Things wot people said better than me:
I don't care about Blair Sandberg's hair
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Fandom is a strange and weird place, and sometimes that's a totally good thing. The ability to discuss the obscure shit nobody else cares about? Awesome. The flip side of the strange and weird is when swimming around in the fishbowl makes a person disregard comments saying "Through your direct action or inaction, you are doing something that is hurting me. Please stop." What kind of douche do you have to be to dredge up some argument about artistic integrity rather than put up the fucking warning? As
dira said, "A story about a triggery topic which can only be enjoyed without a trigger warning is not a good story to begin with."The thing that also totally makes me tweaky is how warnings are considered implied judgment. Bullshit. Warnings are ways to help determine if you're able or willing to handle something out of your comfort zone. For example, the first part of
rm and kalichan's (fabulous) I Had No Idea I Had Been Traveling has some D/S and pretty hardcore breathplay. Even not having had traumatic or triggering experiences in my life, this was a pretty intense story that I would not have wanted sprung on me without knowing what was inside. The experience of a story is a partnership between the writer and the reader, and it seems very much inequitable to not give the reader the tools they need to deal with their stuff.I don't know. It just feels like a lot of rules of online discourse are boiled down to "Don't be a dick," and a lot of people are being dicks.
Things wot people said better than me:
I don't care about Blair Sandberg's hair
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