Comment on NSFW on Lemmy
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIt’s not much different from western cultures, though india does have a problem with sexism in (and outside of) the workplace. But are you really arguing demographic semantics to avoid the point at hand?
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
As I said, I’ve regularly seen bikini picture and the like on office computers, so yes, I think it’s acceptable in “western culture”. Maybe not in some of the more puritan countries or large corporations, but in general, yes.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s… literally “Not Safe For Work”. There’s no formal definition, let alone one beyond “not safe to have at work”. It was a usenet appelation applied to content you don’t want your boss seeing you browsing, it’s never evern been explicitly about porn? It’s not exactly hardline censorship to want tagging guidlines to be followed. At the moment, /all is the best way to find new communities to subscribe to. It’s not unreasonable to ask people not to complain about the content they find there, but since this is the one single content filter common to lemmy, it’s also not unreasonable to ask people to use it?
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Despite what the letters literally stand for or where it’s from, it doesn’t actually mean that (anymore). If it did for most people almost any media would be “NSFW”. Most people would get in trouble for watching a movie or playing video games at work, regardless of content. That’s obviously a useless definition.
Since it was popularized in reddit and other social media the tag defacto means porn/gore. That’s how the vast majority of people uses it and that’s how I think it should be used.
And of course people can complain. But well, sometimes the complain might just fall on deaf ears. And in the case if demanding bikini pictures be tagged as NSFW, I think rightfully so.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The situations in which you’re watching any alternative media in a workplace setting are potentially fraught with reprimand, though. “You’re there on work time being on your phone is literally theft” and all that hyperbolic corpo BS. But during times you can be on your phone, it’s still broadly less acceptable to be watching “haurhi jiggles up and down [nightcore] [bigtits]” videos than it would be watching generic videogame content.