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• YaBoyMax@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Appears to be a rule against posting food made from animal products. As someone who doesn’t eat animal product myself, I don’t particularly enjoy scrolling Reddit or Lemmy and seeing a picture of a meat dish, but it doesn’t ruin my day I would never dream of demanding a content warning for it. To my knowledge CWs are geared towards content that has the potential to trigger past trauma, and I can’t understand how a food category could be so broadly traumatic to someone (outside of EDs I guess, which is obviously not the focus of this rule).

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  • threeduck@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I suspect it’s less of a trigger warning, and more of a means to reframe perceptions of food.

    Like, if TV commercials just started putting little “viewers may find the following depictions of dead animals disturbing” stingers before a commercial of a family eating steaks, it might change perceptions over time.

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    • HardlightCereal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s exactly what it is.

      Homelander drinking a consenting woman’s breast milk is disturbing and helps convince viewers he’s a creep. Yet if he were to enjoy a nice glass of refreshing cow breast milk, that would be completely normal. Why? Because our society has made a very deliberate choice not to consider there being anything wrong with milking a cow.

      Hexbear simply does not participate in that choice. On Hexbear, there is something disturbing about milking a cow, and that’s because the admins want you to be disturbed by it. That has always been the default state of things.

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      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The gif that’s typically shared is after he’s murdered her, and finds some in her office fridge. I wouldn’t hold it up as a textbook definition of consent.

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  • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately trigger warnings got watered down very quickly, to now also being used as an “anything someone might find the slightest discomfort in”

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