But transgenders and pronouns were never ever a thing in the Dragon Age franchise, and now they suddenly feature these so prominently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krem_(Dragon_Age)

Every Dragon Age game has had pronouns because that’s how fucking language works. Your brain has just been poisoned by right-wing outrage over “pronouns”.

Also, “transgenders” isn’t a word. “Transgender” is an adjective, not a noun, not that I expect that to mean anything to someone who freaks out about “pronouns”.

This sounds like a plausible thing that actually happened.

Kind of seems like a contradiction

They don’t care. There’s no point in calling conservatives out on hypocrisy. Only a very small number of them will give a shit, and those will be the ones who were already having doubts.

I see what the problem is.

Here, this should be more agreeable to you:

The New York Times is full of shit (Opinion)

Least reactionary lemmy.world user.

What’s the point of preserving artifacts if there’s no one to look at them anymore?

“Psh, you think humans don’t murder other humans? Tell me you don’t pay attention to history without telling me you don’t pay attention to history.”

How can anyone like reading those samey-same replies constantly?

What do you propose as the solution, then? Without any up-front disclosure of the triggering content being present, how can anybody make the choice whether or not to expose themself to it?

There’s evidence that trigger warnings actually worsen anxiety and are counterproductive

I’d be interested in seeing these studies.

The way to treat anxiety is to face the source of anxiety to try and change your relationship and reaction. The best way to do this is via controlled access that exposes one to the trigger gradually in a context that has no risk of harm (eg a media depiction, discussing the concept, building up to discussing the source of trauma that led to the phobic response if applicable)

Trigger warnings enable active avoidance. This sensitizes one to the aversive stimuli and makes the phobic response stronger. As a result when one encounters the stimulus (eg a friend, family, celebrity etc commits suicide, suffers an eating disorder, etc) your resilience to the trigger is now even lower and the response is more likely to be more significant than it was before.

These two paragraphs seem to contradict each other. Controlled access in a safe setting like a media depiction sounds great. That’s exactly what trigger warnings are for. How can you possibly do controlled exposure without knowing if the content is there or not?

Trigger warnings enable active avoidance.

Incorrect. Trigger warnings inform you that the content is present in the media you’re about to watch. What you do with that information is up to you.

Lmao fuck, I was reading from top to bottom

They put that shit in their TOS?? Fucking dumbasses

“It is different when real imminent harm to real organisms in the actual real world is involved”

stares into the camera like I’m on The Office

Nah. Someone lamenting that the world is unfair and needs to change does not need to be reminded that the world is unfair.

What’s the benefit of leaving your house?

Everyone knows that, though. So what’s the point of saying it when someone is trying to make things more fair?

“Grow up and live in the real world” / “Life’s not fair” / other thought-terminating cliches used to shut down anyone who wants the world to be a better place than it is. Like, I fucking know it’s an unfair place. The whole point is that I would like for it to be less unfair.

Pay a human to draw it for you.

It has the letters in a grid! It’s unintuitive at first, but one you get used to it it’s pretty quick.

ThumbKey on Fdroid

It’s not random! The placement is based on letter frequency.

Mostly Thumb Key, but I’m trying out Heliboard right now thanks to the recommendations here and it’s pretty nice. I haven’t used a good swiping keyboard for a while.