#self censoring

[michaelpaul7]

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[hunny--hunny]

self censoring by changing words is an accessablility issue. if you self censor by changing a word, then please at least add a translation. not only does self censoring by changing words break screen readers and make your post harder to read, it also makes it harder for people who are triggered by whatever you're talking about to filter it out.

here are some examples on bad versus good censoring.

lets use the words shit and fuck as an example for swear words ( as people censor those a lot )

bad censoring:

fvck

$hit

f*ck

sh1t

good censoring

adding the tags #f word / #f word cw

adding the tags #s word / #s word cw

adding the tags #swearing warning / #swearing cw

adding something at the start of the post like " swearing warning " " f word warning " " s word warning"

( i don't personally think swearing should be censored, but it really just depends on who you're talking to and what community you're talking in ( like in some communities that have a large amount of younger members, they often require swearing to be censored ) )

okay, now lets have some examples on how to censor slurs.

( obligatory op can reclaim these slurs )

[f slur warning and t slur warning]

bad censoring:

f@g

tr@nny

f*g

trvnny

good cencoring:

adding the tags #f slur / #f slur cw

adding the tags #t slur / #t slur cw

adding the tags #slur warning / #slur cw

adding something at the start of the post like " slurs warning " " f slur warning " " t slur warning "

to add onto that, if you are referring to a slur you cant reclaim, instead of censoring it with an asterisk, just write it like:

[f slur]

[t slur]

to get the point across of what you are referencing without actually saying the slur.

when you change the letters while censoring, not only can it break screen readers and make it hard to read a post, its also harder for people to filter out the stuff they don't want to see, because if someone has, say, the tag / phrase sexual assault filtered, writing " s*****l assu@lt " isn't going to be picked up be that filter.

this is something that has been bothering me for years so i thought i'd finally just make a post about it. if others have anything else they want to add then please feel free to say it in a comment and / or reblog

[matikura]

What happened to make the internet full of radicals and fascists, with no room for being basic and unassuming to the bone

People with fixed cosmology, tend to speak in an with an authoritative voice. Most common people don't feel comfortable challenging this tone, except for academics who've confused their own accomplishment in research, as some kind of hall pass to flaunt their personal ick opinion as factful information.

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There was this Twitter incident awhile back where a national feminist icon with decent publication and respect couldn't out debate the most basic basement dwelling bro calling her out on dehumanizing ugly people as not trying hard enough and deserving to be bullied by society because women don't want them

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which was new heights of despairing. Okay sure you're a older person who isn't used to talking with passionate commoners, who aren't already a bootlicking follower of your tribal doctrine.

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I was feeling the usual anxiety for being, bringing up a counterpoint when I'm not a important artist with real suffering and persecution to [ put on display in order to ] justify having a opinion on the matter.

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And how that's weird, when web 2.0 was advertised as a place where non credentials could share the same space to be heard, as previously that right was reserved for professionals in the mass media business.

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[deathbyotpin123]

I am so annoyed at the censoring lingo people have adopted. Today someone wrote "🥣💀" and I kept reading it "bowl... skull???".

It's serial killer. Because it's a bowl of CEREAL. Get it?

And this isn't even a "TikTok ha-ha keep it light" moment. Just a bunch of GenX and Millenials trying to have a very serious conversation how using real life killers to promote your dark romance book is abhorrent. But they can't even use the proper language.

[pickledfingers]

Hate when people censor the entire word like ****

Come on, gimme a hint at least

Like even just one letter

*u** or something

That way I never have to read "give a ****** ****" again and spend 20 minutes trying to figure out the fuck the fic author was taking about

[themidnighttraincries]

Not gonna lie, it’s kinda funny that tumblr is roasting new users for self censoring when a couple months ago we couldn’t tag shit #girl.

[littlewomenpodcast]

Louisa May Alcott and Heavy Self-Censoring

The self-censoring, it happens even in Little Women. It raises the question what is the intention of the author? In the book when Amy burns Jo´s manuscript it happens because Jo has been bullying Amy for weeks and she has had enough. Little Women is framed against Pilgrim´s process. A story where the protagonist learns to overcome their biggest flaws. For Jo her biggest flaw is her temper. Why would Louisa make her literal counterpart to face that if there was no intention? She is the creator and the one who controls the story? another explanation is that Louisa is censoring her own writing, because when Jo writes the story again, it becomes a lot better. Second self censoring happens with Weekly Volcano. As I explained earlier Louisa used herself as an example but never admitted that. In the last Little Women book, Jo´s boys, when Jo has become a famous writer, she is very much against when her nephew Demi begins to write stories for a magazine. Jo does not approve. Almost like Louisa is echoing her own history with sensationalism. Louisa began to self-censor her diaries when Little Women became a best-seller. As a writer she was marketed as ”the friend of all children”. It is also important to point out that in the 19th century sex was a taboo. There was times when Louisa struggled with the children book format because she preferred to write adult themes, especially after Louisa´s passing, the early Alcott scholars took everything that she had written literally, most of these people were completely unaware that Louisa had self-censored her own journals. Not only did Louisa write about her own love life in Little Women in literal disguise, she also wrote about her experience writing the sensational stories. We might even say that she wrote her biggest secrets to the novel. It is no wonder that she had very conflicted feelings about it. Some of us might be very eager to judge her for this, the way she tried to detach herself away from Little Women, but in the 19th century woman having a good reputation, that was a lot more valuable than all the money that they owned.

https://www.fairychamber.com/the-little-women-project/love-and-sex-in-little-women-louisa-may-alcott-and-19th-century-courtship-video-essay-transcript

[autism-asks]

I don't understand how stup*d is an ableist term. Could you explain it to me? ((Where I'm from, it's a term of endearment, synonymous with like silly. "Yeah, this is my brother, he's a real stup*dhead." "Oh, don't mind me, I'm just being a little stup*d today." Maybe that's just a Seattle culture thing?))

First of all, you may be using it as a term of endearment, but that doesn’t make it one. There’s a lot of people that use the word bitch as a term of endearment but if you use it with regards to someone who’s not in the group you use it as such with, they will be offended.

Refer to this post for why we ask the word not be used here.

One last remark that goes out to anyone: please do not self censor. If a word is blocked by someone and you self censor, the block doesn’t pick it up and you’ll end up exposing someone to the very word they’re trying to avoid.

-Wren