Posted Successfully Thanks for the very thoughtful-looking list of links. I've learned something about white-out warnings - because I hadn't seen them much, and I'm new, I sometimes had the impression that below the white-out was something so awful you might not even want to see it mentioned in a warning. (Scary!) Obviously, wrong! It's more a way to post potential spoilers, sounds like. And yeah, sometimes I don't want to know and spend the whole fic waiting for something to happen, or have the surprise taken out.
As many others have said, I don't think it's appropriate to put m/m slash or femslash or het as "warnings" along with rape, bestiality, necrophilia etc. It feels like a slap. Reactionary politicians in the US "warn", every time gay rights issues come up, "next they'll be trying to legalize pedophilia!"
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Date: 2011-04-02 07:53 pm (UTC)Thanks for the very thoughtful-looking list of links. I've learned something about white-out warnings - because I hadn't seen them much, and I'm new, I sometimes had the impression that below the white-out was something so awful you might not even want to see it mentioned in a warning. (Scary!) Obviously, wrong! It's more a way to post potential spoilers, sounds like. And yeah, sometimes I don't want to know and spend the whole fic waiting for something to happen, or have the surprise taken out.
As many others have said, I don't think it's appropriate to put m/m slash or femslash or het as "warnings" along with rape, bestiality, necrophilia etc. It feels like a slap. Reactionary politicians in the US "warn", every time gay rights issues come up, "next they'll be trying to legalize pedophilia!"
Yay for interesting discussion.