• crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    Volcel police meme is what made the culture on CTH (and here by extension) one of the most comfortable and least hostile places on the internet for me as a woman for sure

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Sure - but that doesn't mean teenagers should feel scared and ashamed that they are experiencing sexual desire in their personal lives. If someone can't tell the difference b/t memes for community health and religious like moral precepts, something is getting lost in translation. That's how communities that start out as ironic get taken over by a culture that's not ironic anymore. More and more people join that aren't literate in the memes and read them literally, and then begin enforcing them literally. It's a real pickle in community culture development patterns.

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        3 years ago

        There's plenty of normal, healthy horny posting on this site that nobody calls the volcel police over. It's better to have a community-supported mechanism for shutting down people who cross the line into unwanted horny posting that's low-pressure enough that it doesn't make the person getting sent to horny gulag double down and decide that everyone else is wrong

        • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          There certainly is now - we'd be in agreement over that, I'm referring to that spell we went through when that was not the case.