Talks with Aunt Coffeebuddha: I'm too tired and pissed to try to be funny.

[coffeebuddha]

It's late, I'm tired, and I've seen this way too many times today to not want to hit something with a tuba.

Guys. Warning for slash in your headers? Is fucking repugnant.

Let's take a look at some things that are typically warned for and see if you can't figure out why that is without my spelling it out for you.

• Rape/noncon/dubcon/sexual assault
• graphic violence
• character death
• child abuse
• emotional/mental abuse

Basically, these are all things that are generally acknowledged to be potentially triggering for readers. Can we all parse out why lumping a same sex relationship into the category of 'things that need to be warned for' with things like that might possibly be offensive as all get out?

If you want to say that your story contains slash, then have at it. Include it in your summary, in your notes, or in an actual 'Contains' line. But don't fucking warn for it like it's something offensive and triggering.

Comments

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

There's definitely that too. I just don't get why people do it. If it isn't clear from your header what the pairing is, then you're probably doing it wrong. And if some delicate snowflake somehow misses the signs and is all butthurt that my story is slash, well, I really can't work up any sympathy for them over that.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

Ah, morons.


(One of the only things I miss before lj explosion is the way people had to learn the rules of fandom/fanfic. :)