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31 y/o white passing mixed w/ Black monster woman from the Netherlands. Artist (occasionally). Writer (again, every so often). Prone to camera sniffing behavior, one of them θΔ folk.
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in reply to @micolithe's post:
Emotions, Positive, Mentions of a French Fry which falls under Food
If someone can't emotionally handle seeing the words "Harry Potter" then that is an accessibility accommodation beyond what can be reasonably expected to be met by an entire community Just In Case and they should use the muffling feature
when i tried to poke my head into mastodon it is still very much like this and somehow the culture over there still thinks there is benefit saying "birdsite" instead of twitter or "terf wizard lady" instead of jk rowling.
in reply to @VeraLycaon's post:
Content/trigger warnings, when placed before content you are going to read/watch anyway, have been shown in studies to not be effective in reducing negative reactions to the material (and can even make negative reactions worse for some people), and could have countertherapeutic effects because they overemphasize the importance of trauma in a survivor's life story
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/trigger-warnings-fail-to-help.html
I think they work best when you have the option of not seeing the content itself (like how Cohost does it now with a toggle), rather than something that people insist should be placed by default before any and all media people could possibly consume ever
Content warnings are best used like signposts to avoid a piece of media to begin with, rather than a tacked-on sticky note once you've already committed to consuming something
And they definitely should be pretty specific if used at all