Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/BDSM and rape/reply (10)

Coming at it from a different perspective, I see it not as a content danger warning but as a general content warning. I write a lot of fanfiction, and there is nothing more irritating than thinking you are going to be getting a nice introspective piece from the summary but it ends up being yaoi-as-written-by-a-tween: male/male sex in the way only a twelve year old could manage to write male/male sex based on highly specific japanese hurt/comfort dom/sub semi-voyeuristic hanky panky graphic novels. Even if you don't have any personal objection to the content within, a huge problem with internet publishing, especially on sites that don't allow sorting by subject, filtering, or many aids to help readers pick and choose the content they get save perhaps a general search or rating/genre filtering (tumblr dashboard, fanfiction.net, fictionpress, livejournal, etc.) so specialized tags, 'trigger warnings,' character lists and notations, pairing notes, or other summary items are popular. It's considered polite to note anything a person might really, really not want to see before they click after the content break and get a face full of stuff they may not have been browsing for.

But other than that, yeah, nothing makes me more weary than watching people try and take the moral high ground by pre-emptively 'protecting' people without a request. It's better, to me, to offend someone once and apologize and fix what's the matter than to assume someone will object to one's content before even a read. It's always better to me to treat people with understanding, politeness, and respect than slapping on a broad label and calling it a day.