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transemacabre) wrote2011-10-05 05:04 am
transemacabre) wrote2011-10-05 05:04 am
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WTF so we're supposed to warn for pregnancy now?
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norsekink, the mods put up a list of triggery content that must be warned for in fic. Aside from common triggers, like rape and self-harm, the mods in their wisdom decided to include... pregnancy!
Look, I try to be a good girl about putting warnings on my fics. Sometimes I think I make my fanfics sound scarier than they are, because I will warn for stuff only alluded to or mentioned very briefly, to be on the safe side. I also have no problem with common triggers, like the aforementioned rape and self-harm. But pregnancy? Pregnancy. For real-real? Should I warn for farts and sneezes and morning wood and other banal things that human bodies do sometimes? Another poster on NK reasonably points out that s/he has a trigger for car crashes, which is much more unnatural than pregnancy, but wouldn't think of asking for a trigger warning for it. Due to some awful stuff in my past, I don't like reading about people being beaten with crowbars, but that's kind of a specific trigger and I'm not going to demand that everyone on a kink meme abide by a warning for goddamn crowbars.
I can understand warning for miscarriage. It might be upsetting to someone who's suffered one. I can understand warning for mpreg, as that's a kink that's about as mainstream as furry porn (which is to say, not very). I can understand warning for a graphic birth scene, as that's a little TMI. But warning for pregnancy leaves me befuddled. It makes me wonder about the people who find it triggery -- can they not leave the house, for fear of seeing a pregnant woman waddling down the street?
Fuck it. I am not warning for pregnancy in my fics, which means I won't be writing on NK. Flist, should I note my not-warning-for-pregnancy stance in my userinfo, so that people won't wander into my lj and be ~traumatized~ by mentions of pregnant people?
norsekink, the mods put up a list of triggery content that must be warned for in fic. Aside from common triggers, like rape and self-harm, the mods in their wisdom decided to include... pregnancy!Look, I try to be a good girl about putting warnings on my fics. Sometimes I think I make my fanfics sound scarier than they are, because I will warn for stuff only alluded to or mentioned very briefly, to be on the safe side. I also have no problem with common triggers, like the aforementioned rape and self-harm. But pregnancy? Pregnancy. For real-real? Should I warn for farts and sneezes and morning wood and other banal things that human bodies do sometimes? Another poster on NK reasonably points out that s/he has a trigger for car crashes, which is much more unnatural than pregnancy, but wouldn't think of asking for a trigger warning for it. Due to some awful stuff in my past, I don't like reading about people being beaten with crowbars, but that's kind of a specific trigger and I'm not going to demand that everyone on a kink meme abide by a warning for goddamn crowbars.
I can understand warning for miscarriage. It might be upsetting to someone who's suffered one. I can understand warning for mpreg, as that's a kink that's about as mainstream as furry porn (which is to say, not very). I can understand warning for a graphic birth scene, as that's a little TMI. But warning for pregnancy leaves me befuddled. It makes me wonder about the people who find it triggery -- can they not leave the house, for fear of seeing a pregnant woman waddling down the street?
Fuck it. I am not warning for pregnancy in my fics, which means I won't be writing on NK. Flist, should I note my not-warning-for-pregnancy stance in my userinfo, so that people won't wander into my lj and be ~traumatized~ by mentions of pregnant people?