so ive been raped twice before, it sucked. i hate seeing rape posts casually on my feed. its very distressing. so seeing a meme, even with a CW, can stress me out. specifically, i’m referring to the ‘its day x and joe biden is still a rapist’ meme. this meme sucks because it shows up in the feed and since most rape posts are comments embedded elsewhere, that means i can just avoid the comment sections of this site. however, this meme gets posted nearly every day and its just pure shock jock shit.

ive already considered leaving the site for this reason and i feel like it might be a real bar of entry for anyone that is a sexual violence victim here. im in a support group for SV and i remember when the kavanaugh hearings were all on TV, everyone was talking about how they had to keep TV’s off and stick to the internet for entertainment, with heavy filters, and avoid politics altogether. so this isnt just me.

id like to ask the mods for help on this, please remove these sorts of posts featuring rape until we have a keyword filter. rape gets mentioned every couple of hours on this site and it feels like im going through a minefield. @TransComrade69 @Beatnik

also for the people posting the memes: this isnt really a diss on you, probably dont share memes like that though

and yeah, content warnings are awful, theyre either too vague or too specific and are useless for victims. ideally, sites should have keyword filters to hide content that mentions certain words.

  • abdul [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 years ago

    fuck thats terrible, im so sorry that happened to you. as someone who refused to vote for biden on the grounds of what happened to tara reade alone (among other reasons but he could have lifted my candidates entire platform and i still wouldnt have voted for him) i absolutely support your request and hope it can be met.

    I hear the people saying that its just part of the news and its a disservice to the victims to engage in behavior that could be described as silencing their voices, but honestly, i dont see why we cant have both. a word filter like the kind on twitter would be helpful, or at least some kind of flair system.