WTF so we're supposed to warn for pregnancy now?

[transemacabre]

Over on 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?

Comments

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

For something like the prompt you described, I would warn for rape and forced pregnancy. But for a story where someone -- not even necessarily Loki, just anyone gets pregnant without rape or any other obvious horror, does that really deserve a trigger warning? That is a typical biological function for mammals. I am not warning for that.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

The new norsekink mods aren't really the, um, sharpest tools in the shed, as far as I can tell.

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

Well, it apparently takes, what, 15 mods to run one kink meme? And several of that number allegedly find pregnant people triggering. Maybe they should retire from running an active kink meme filled with sensitive subject matter, and instead pour themselves a nice hot cup of tea, lay down for a few hours, and try not to get stressed so much.