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.

  • Druckknoedel [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I've also been raped twice, and honestly it triggers me to not have it posted that Joe Biden is a rapist. I would be upset if people were just bringing it up constantly/casually/willy nilly, but we cannot keep allowing victims to be silenced. If there's a way to filter for users that'd be cool, I don't want people to feel triggered and unsafe. But this feels too much like silencing/censorship for me to be comfortable with it.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      they do this shit all the time for memes here. serious discussions are warranted on the subject and are important but i dont want to see them and a filter is incredibly important.

      rape is a meme here at all times. all discussions started on it are usually started in a joking way. its disgusting. here's the most recent example: https://hexbear.net/post/79396

        • kristina [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          the filter is currently in the works im just asking people to not post things so i can actually use this site