#social responsibility

le-sansnom:

gentle reminder sick and disabled people still cant go outside and havent had a normal life in over 2 years now and seemingly wont be able to go outside do their groceries, go to events and meet w friends in any foreseeable future. like at all. like not “if we’re all vaxxed its fine”. like not “if im masked up w an ffp2 its fine”. idk think about it

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Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network - #LiberatingWebinars Changing Media Perceptions of Disability | Facebook

This video hosted by the AWANN actually has a very raw statment from Dominick Evans who confesses that he hasn’t left his home in over 2 years. Not even to go to the deck because his neighbors don’t abide communal safety and he has respiratory issues in addition to other disabilities (which includes an autoimmune disorder)

The question prompted by the host begins at 15:10, and the other activists weigh in with their experiences. But Dominick’s answer starts at 25:35,where this quote comes in a few moments later:

“I just figured it out. It has been 2 years, 2 months and 4 weeks since I have been outside. I haven’t seen the sun. I haven’t sat on my deck because my neighbors do not understand social distancing, at all. It is not safe for me to go out.

And do you know what the response on social media has been?

-‘Stay in your house. [stummbles] The World shouldn’t stop for you. You’re one person. My children are suffering because of people like you.’- On, and on, and on…”

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This video is from only a 2 months ago - March 16th, 2022.

madammuffins:

lines-and-edges:

“All fictional content is just fine and totally harmless to everyone” is not my actual position; I believe in nuance and social responsibility and that a lot of things are up for debate.

But as long as there are people out there who think it’s OK to harrass and threaten kids for exploring their sexuality in fiction, and as long as the community that just wants to criticize is not actively taking stepsto oust these predatory individuals, they are pushing people who are horrified by the stalking and harrassment to adopt that as a fall-back position.

Or, in other words, matter how not-OK any particular piece of fiction or art might be, it is always more OK than targeted harm to actual human beings, especially vulnerable children. And that’s a hard line.

And as long as that’s happening on as large of a scale as it is right now, anyone who cares about the safety of minors online should be concentrating on cleaning that up, and people who focus on the contents of purely fictional works instead, or put far greater emphasis on these, are at best misguided and at worst trying to take the attention off their own predatory behavior. This focus is a red flag.

I’ll be happy to discuss the potential indirect harms of more and less permissive stances on media content with a community that demonstrates a commitment to fixing their missing stairs, not ignoring that they exist.

Hint: The missing stairs are the ones engaging in harrassment and abuse, not the ones who reblogged a “bad” fanart once.

I agree with the majority of this, however I don’t 100% agree that fiction should be policed at all. But as a librarian I know that my viewpoint is radical and probably problematic for the majority of Tumblr as it is now.

the bottomline:

Stop attacking people for fiction.

Start attacking people who ACTUALLY HARM CHILDREN

JFC it’s not that hard.

To clarify: I don’t believe in policing fiction because I don’t believe in policing.

Ido believe in presenting it with framing information that helps the reader contextualize it: for example, the foreword to Naked Lunch that addresses the matter of its obscenity trial, both the question of why the book was tried and some of the framing arguments that won the case.

I also don’t believe every platform has to be a place for every kind of fiction (and I think that we should all collectively move away from our near-total reliance on massively centralized, commercialized, public platforms like Twitter and Facebook and probably Tumblr, because not everything that should be allowed to exist should be getting flung at your head at 80 mph, jfc.)

I believe that it’s possible to hold the opinion “it’s bad to post untagged, un-warned-for rapefic” while also holding the opinion “abuse and harassment are always wrong, even if the subject has also done something wrong.”

See also my post on Mein Kampf, media responsibility, mitzvahs, and libraries.

I doodled this after being very frustrated with a lot of people in a town center who were not social distancing at all. I know it’s hard, and I hate it too - but wearing a mask is for the protection of those around you, not yourself. It’s not repression, it’s an act of social conscience.

Anyway, off my soapbox now.

My old characters from the guardian angel comic seemed like the right fit.

My experience (with too many people).

Full size (and more) here.

If there ever were such thing as a parenting words to live by (I’m sure there’s a phrase I’m forgetting), this is what I kept in mind raising my kids.