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[–]Horror-SwordfishI don't get how flairs work 23 insightful - 4 fun23 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

I'm sorry, but who the hell feels "unsafe" on an internet forum? No one is reaching through the screen to strangle you - I could literally right now spout off dozens of terrible racial epithets and homophobic slurs (not that I would, mind you, because that's not the type of person I am) and no one could do anything about it.

What exactly is it that words or pictures on a screen are doing to make someone think that they are in some sort of danger?

[–]Beryl[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Words don't have to have meaning anymore, did you miss the memo?

But for real, it speaks more about them than they think if they're scared of words on a screen that has just a mildly dismissive tone.

[–]Horror-SwordfishI don't get how flairs work 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I mean, I was just going through that post and someone dared to say "YASSSS KWEEN" to a commenter (with a bunch of downvotes), who replied with, "I'm not a girl, that triggers my dysphoria, please don't say that to me." So they responded with "YASSSS KING" and got a bunch of upvotes. It's all so fucking stupid to me. There was a point not too long ago where I thought that, being in my mid-30s, I was still relatively young, but maybe I'm just a crochety old man after all.

No. It's the young people who are wrong.

[–]Beryl[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Pathetic, isn't it? I'm just glad I grew up on 4chan and shitposted on /b/ and encyclopedia dramatica when I was a kid, it seems to have inured me to any sort of thought manipulation.

[–]wendyokoopa1 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same