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borntowemble:

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borntowemble:

chilopodacrudus:

borntowemble:

bogleech:

lollandlass:

Y’know, seriously. Anyone who insists on tagging spiders as “adorable” after it’s been pointed out that it’s hurting people to do so is an insensitive lout. IDGAF what you put on your Tumblr. I’ll respond if I like or dislike. I’ll unfollow if you’re too much something (be it too prone to post five dozen things a day or we’re at such loggerheads about something that I can’t personally cope with your scene). But the tags effing matter across Tumblr, ‘kay? If I put squished spiders and anti-spider posts under a spider tag, the OP would get peeved because they like spiders. Respect for others is a dying art; this “how dare you censor me” bushwa is a demonstration of that.

I tag spiders as “adorable” because I find spiders adorable. I also tag them as “spiders,” so I am doing nothing to deceive anybody about the content of said posts. If I’m expected to pretend I DON’T find them adorable and stop tagging them that way because someone is needlessly horrified by them, what then? Some people are just as terrified of dogs or horses or hatchetfish or blind cave salamanders. The fact that arachnophobia is more common shouldn’t entitle anyone. You might as well ask that nobody ever tag an animal with “adorable” again if you want to talk about sensitivity. People need to accept that nature is beautiful in all of its forms to somebody or another (and in a perfect world, would be beautiful in all its forms to everybody, all of the time) and that they are going to see photographs of said forms on their monitor from time to time. Photographs, not actual spiders leaping off the screen to suck their brains out, which is how some people are reacting.

If seeing a picture of an animal on the computer RUINS YOUR DAY or THREATENS YOUR HEALTH with anxiety then one person tagging them as “adorable” is the least of your worries. However, I’ve never met anybody whose phobia was that severe, and as someone who runs a whole website full of bugs, raises bugs and and talks about bugs almost every day of his life, I have met a lot of people with phobias.

I would never expect anyone to tag posts differently for my sake, no matter how they upset me, as the purpose of a blog is a tool by which a person can post whatever they like, however they like and whenever they like. People who don’t like it have many options to block and filter content.

Your example, however, makes no sense. Killing an entire harmless, innocent organism is leaps and bounds more serious than just making a person upset over the internet. :)

<3 You’re a liar and a piece of shit. Now you’re just trying to purposefully being vindictive and I’m sorry a human being’s mental well being is more important than the shit you make up in your mind of what people having a phobia will do. I’m tired of your ableist attitude that people with phobias just need to suck it if they’re that bad. 

I’m not afraid of any insect, I have never had a phobia related to any living thing. But from now on, JUST because of you, I think instead of putting spiders and other insects outside when I see them, I’ll just kill it. If I see a spider’s eggsac outside near my house too as I often do, I’ll destroy that as well. Or any of the other interesting spiders I often see outside my home. 

I’m sorry but you have some fucking issues if you set out to kill an innocent creature because you disagree with someone on the internet. What the fuck.

Like Bogleech doesn’t have issues lying and deceiving people to trigger someone’s phobia? I was the only one in my house who never killed bugs, especially spiders, (even dangerous ones that got in my house like Brown Recluses) even though my mother is very allergic.

Bogleech is an asshole who is purposely trying to upset people who have a phobia severe enough to be triggered by a picture, not to mention an ableist asshole attitude to boot. He wants people to NOT be so afraid of spiders so they won’t kill them, but triggering someone’s phobia like this is not going to not only going to just make that phobia worse and probably make them kill more spiders, it’s also not going to make them sympathize with people like him who like spiders. It’ll probably make them spiteful and be assholes to anyone who likes spiders, since he’s being an ass to people who are afraid of them.

I’m sorry that you’re both too fucking stupid to realize that. 

boo hoo spiders make me upset i’m going to bitch and moan about it on tumblr

:,(

Sorry, but there’s only one world to live in, and that world has spiders in it, there is no other world, there is only this world. In the real world, people don’t use trigger warnings, or consider that one in a million people will be offended by their unintentional post.

You have to deal with things like this, you’re the one getting upset, you’re the one who should deal with it, other people shouldn’t have to censor their stuff because you, or anyone else has a phobia.

And, for the record, ‘adorable’ is a vague term that depends on the opinion of the beholder. Don’t tell people what and what to not call adorable. 

cry more

End of rine

Spider’s don’t make me upset. Assholes piss me off though.

Sounds like you’re the one whining an crying to me.

Poor baby. 

And you’re telling me not to tell people what to do… Maybe you should take your own damn advice since you’re telling me what to do. 

Just a thought. 

Nice retort, I like how instead of addressing my points you just disregard all of them and accuse me of some of them.

No, I’m not crying, I’m on a mighty quest to actually deliver logic and intelligence to the internet because so many people like you lack it.

I’m sorry but, I know YOU don’t have a phobia, but is that really relevant to the point? Not really, by ‘you’ I just mean the group you’re seeking to protect by recommending people do not put spiders under the tag adorable.

Okay, I’ll address your points and re-enforce my own if you want:

1: However, yes, you are right, I am telling you what to do, I am telling you not to tell others what to do. Now this may be a little too complicated for you to understand, but I am not actually telling anyone what to do, I simply seek to put the balance back into the situation. You essentially told others what is and is not acceptable to tag as adorable, and I told you that you were unjustified in that and that nobody should be telling anyone the list of things that certain emotive language applies to.

2: I don’t really see how your argument is trying to protect anyone, yes, arachnophobia, even in extreme cases, is one of the more common phobias out there. On the other hand, if you have a phobia which is so bad, simply seeing images of them can be offensive, you should seriously consider what you are doing on the internet, possibly the biggest database of information on EVERYTHING, EVER. Of course there will be many, many pictures of spiders, or anything else that could upset you.

In addition, arachnophobia is not the only common phobia, acrophobia (vertigo), cynophobia (fear of dogs), and agoraphobia (fear of enclosed spaces), are also relatively common. In fact after a life threatening experience, my sister was almost (almost) mauled to death by a dog, she actually developed the second phobia I listed to a severe degree.

I have seen puppies and kittens and all sorts of creatures tagged as ‘adorable’, but it’s quite possible that someone on tumblr will have a severe phobia of one of the aforementioned things, should we change how we tag posts for those people too.

I’m sorry, but when you’re policing what emotive words like ‘adorable’ can be used to describe on a social networking site, you’re going a little too far.

For the record, and to the best of my understanding, borntowemble was objecting not to tagging spiders as “adorable” but to tagging them as “puppy” and “kitten,” two things they objectively are not, and also to perceived ableism in bogleech’s posts. I am no expert on ableism and I think both parties could stand to be more sensitive so I am treading lightly here.

Source: bogleech

borntowemble:

horribleman:

borntowemble:

chilopodacrudus:

borntowemble:

bogleech:

lollandlass:

Y’know, seriously. Anyone who insists on tagging spiders as “adorable” after it’s been pointed out that it’s hurting people to do so is an insensitive lout. IDGAF what you put on your Tumblr. I’ll respond if I like or dislike. I’ll unfollow if you’re too much something (be it too prone to post five dozen things a day or we’re at such loggerheads about something that I can’t personally cope with your scene). But the tags effing matter across Tumblr, ‘kay? If I put squished spiders and anti-spider posts under a spider tag, the OP would get peeved because they like spiders. Respect for others is a dying art; this “how dare you censor me” bushwa is a demonstration of that.

I tag spiders as “adorable” because I find spiders adorable. I also tag them as “spiders,” so I am doing nothing to deceive anybody about the content of said posts. If I’m expected to pretend I DON’T find them adorable and stop tagging them that way because someone is needlessly horrified by them, what then? Some people are just as terrified of dogs or horses or hatchetfish or blind cave salamanders. The fact that arachnophobia is more common shouldn’t entitle anyone. You might as well ask that nobody ever tag an animal with “adorable” again if you want to talk about sensitivity. People need to accept that nature is beautiful in all of its forms to somebody or another (and in a perfect world, would be beautiful in all its forms to everybody, all of the time) and that they are going to see photographs of said forms on their monitor from time to time. Photographs, not actual spiders leaping off the screen to suck their brains out, which is how some people are reacting.

If seeing a picture of an animal on the computer RUINS YOUR DAY or THREATENS YOUR HEALTH with anxiety then one person tagging them as “adorable” is the least of your worries. However, I’ve never met anybody whose phobia was that severe, and as someone who runs a whole website full of bugs, raises bugs and and talks about bugs almost every day of his life, I have met a lot of people with phobias.

I would never expect anyone to tag posts differently for my sake, no matter how they upset me, as the purpose of a blog is a tool by which a person can post whatever they like, however they like and whenever they like. People who don’t like it have many options to block and filter content.

Your example, however, makes no sense. Killing an entire harmless, innocent organism is leaps and bounds more serious than just making a person upset over the internet. :)

<3 You’re a liar and a piece of shit. Now you’re just trying to purposefully being vindictive and I’m sorry a human being’s mental well being is more important than the shit you make up in your mind of what people having a phobia will do. I’m tired of your ableist attitude that people with phobias just need to suck it if they’re that bad. 

I’m not afraid of any insect, I have never had a phobia related to any living thing. But from now on, JUST because of you, I think instead of putting spiders and other insects outside when I see them, I’ll just kill it. If I see a spider’s eggsac outside near my house too as I often do, I’ll destroy that as well. Or any of the other interesting spiders I often see outside my home. 

I’m sorry but you have some fucking issues if you set out to kill an innocent creature because you disagree with someone on the internet. What the fuck.

Like Bogleech doesn’t have issues lying and deceiving people to trigger someone’s phobia? I was the only one in my house who never killed bugs, especially spiders, (even dangerous ones that got in my house like Brown Recluses) even though my mother is very allergic.

Bogleech is an asshole who is purposely trying to upset people who have a phobia severe enough to be triggered by a picture, not to mention an ableist asshole attitude to boot. He wants people to NOT be so afraid of spiders so they won’t kill them, but triggering someone’s phobia like this is not going to not only going to just make that phobia worse and probably make them kill more spiders, it’s also not going to make them sympathize with people like him who like spiders. It’ll probably make them spiteful and be assholes to anyone who likes spiders, since he’s being an ass to people who are afraid of them.

I’m sorry that you’re both too fucking stupid to realize that. 

Doesn’t matter. Two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s not the spider’s fault that somebody pissed you off, so don’t take it out on them, and don’t use them as a way to spite someone else! I know that they’re lesser life forms, but killing them for stupid reasons like this makes me mad.

Hey, guess what!?

I don’t give a shit and you can suck my dick. <3 

[Trigger Warning for sexual assault]

As long as we are on the subject of potentially triggering panic attacks, I think it bears mention that the phrase “suck my dick,” even when said in jest, can be triggering for some survivors of rape. The reason? “Suck my dick” is exactly the sort of thing some rapists order their victims to do, and in exactly those words. This is not a guess on my part either; I read a discussion on a feminist blog several months ago where people were talking about how triggering that phrase is to them. Thus, I think to use that phrase—especially in a conflict about triggers—is not a particularly good idea.

Source: bogleech

bogleech:

lollandlass:

Y’know, seriously. Anyone who insists on tagging spiders as “adorable” after it’s been pointed out that it’s hurting people to do so is an insensitive lout. IDGAF what you put on your Tumblr. I’ll respond if I like or dislike. I’ll unfollow if you’re too much something (be it too prone to post five dozen things a day or we’re at such loggerheads about something that I can’t personally cope with your scene). But the tags effing matter across Tumblr, ‘kay? If I put squished spiders and anti-spider posts under a spider tag, the OP would get peeved because they like spiders. Respect for others is a dying art; this “how dare you censor me” bushwa is a demonstration of that.

I tag spiders as “adorable” because I find spiders adorable. I also tag them as “spiders,” so I am doing nothing to deceive anybody about the content of said posts. If I’m expected to pretend I DON’T find them adorable and stop tagging them that way because someone is needlessly horrified by them, what then? Some people are just as terrified of dogs or horses or hatchetfish or blind cave salamanders. The fact that arachnophobia is more common shouldn’t entitle anyone. You might as well ask that nobody ever tag an animal with “adorable” again if you want to talk about sensitivity. People need to accept that nature is beautiful in all of its forms to somebody or another (and in a perfect world, would be beautiful in all its forms to everybody, all of the time) and that they are going to see photographs of said forms on their monitor from time to time. Photographs, not actual spiders leaping off the screen to suck their brains out, which is how some people are reacting.

If seeing a picture of an animal on the computer RUINS YOUR DAY or THREATENS YOUR HEALTH with anxiety then one person tagging them as “adorable” is the least of your worries. However, I’ve never met anybody whose phobia was that severe, and as someone who runs a whole website full of bugs, raises bugs and and talks about bugs almost every day of his life, I have met a lot of people with phobias.

I would never expect anyone to tag posts differently for my sake, no matter how they upset me, as the purpose of a blog is a tool by which a person can post whatever they like, however they like and whenever they like. People who don’t like it have many options to block and filter content.

Your example, however, makes no sense. Killing an entire harmless, innocent organism is leaps and bounds more serious than just making a person upset over the internet. :)

The problem with restricting the use of “adorable” to Culturally-Approved Certified-Charismatic Megafauna is that “adorable” is a highly subjective term. I don’t think anyone should have the privilege of dictating which animals are and aren’t allowed to be classified as cute. Now, if someone was tagging spider pictures with “panda,” that WOULD be a misuse of tags, and criticism would be perfectly justified, because spiders are not pandas and pandas are not spiders. That is an unambiguous, objective biological fact. Cuteness, however, exists only in the eye of the beholder, and while an animal’s resemblance to a human infant serves as a very rough guide to how cute people think it is, the perception of cuteness is still and will always be a highly individualized and subjective phenomenon.

However, if someone wants to make and spread a “Cute charismatic megafauna ONLY - NO BUGS PLEASE” tag, they are welcome to do so. 

Source: bogleech

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fuckyeahtf2:

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