Thank you for making me feel less alone on this one. Despite playing a lot of violent video games when I was younger, I can't really handle any violent media now. It just makes me really upset and grossed out. So many people get frustrated with me when I tell them I don't really like to watch shows because watching (sexual) violence makes me uncomfortable.
At the same time, I think it's important to be compassionate about people's starting points. We live in a society that simultaneously hyper-normalizes violence and displays of violence while also promoting this idea of consuming edgy and (sexually) violent media as radical or subversive. It also promotes media-consumption-as-identity-formation. For me, realizing this lets me take people's kneejerk reactions less personally. Sorry a bit rambly.
Thank you for making me feel less alone on this one. Despite playing a lot of violent video games when I was younger, I can't really handle any violent media now. It just makes me really upset and grossed out. So many people get frustrated with me when I tell them I don't really like to watch shows because watching (sexual) violence makes me uncomfortable.
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At the same time, I think it's important to be compassionate about people's starting points. We live in a society that simultaneously hyper-normalizes violence and displays of violence while also promoting this idea of consuming edgy and (sexually) violent media as radical or subversive. It also promotes media-consumption-as-identity-formation. For me, realizing this lets me take people's kneejerk reactions less personally. Sorry a bit rambly.
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