Fishercat<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@Serenus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Serenus</span></a></span> <br>@sandwich</p><p>I don't need CW; I'm finding filters sufficient.</p><p>It's a tough question. I strongly agree that engaging with the world we find ourselves in is our shared responsibility.</p><p>And yet: offensiveness is subjective. Why is it *obviously* appropriate to CW sex and violence, topics that not everyone wants or needs a warning for? </p><p>There's a difference between offense and damage. Framing the question as preferences, or what might offend, makes it easier to ignore the people who say lack of CW harms them. Just as framing masking as a courtesy makes it easier to ignore the folks who say your exhalations might kill them.</p><p>When someone says "I need X to protect myself," a reply that sounds like "Y is perfectly adequate.. you shouldn't need X," strikes me as all kinds of wrong. It smacks of "Well, why don't you just.."</p><p>I expect I'll be inconsistent about my use of CW vs. tags. But I'm not going to be offended by being asked (either generally or directly) to put some stuff behind CWs.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contentwarnings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contentwarnings</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ContentWarnings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContentWarnings</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/courtesy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>courtesy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cw</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hashtags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hashtags</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tags</span></a></p>