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Comment by tlackemann | Hacker News Reader

We've reached a point where you can't scroll through Twitter without "CW: Food" popping up on the feed, as if posting your lunch is now offensive to people.

Speaking out against this absurdity is treated as "fatphobic"

It's both baffling and sad.

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Honest question: Why does it bother you that some (or even many) people put "CW: Food" on their posts? You can just ignore it.

It doesn't bother me. It's just sad.

Let me reword the parent's question to avoid semantic dancing: Why are you using those adjectives to describe something that seems to have virtually no impact on you (ignoring whatever name calling results from arguments about it, rather than from the fact of it)? Maybe you think the inclusion of the label is unnecessary, maybe silly. I could see that opinion pretty easily. But sad? Baffling? Absurd? Briefly: Where is this intense negativity coming from?

For me, there is nothing intense about the emotions. I feel sad, that real care for the well-being of people has been replaced by the ability to slap a CW onto things. I also feel sad about there apparently being people intensly hurt by reading a name on a screen. How did we get there? Maybe because these folks have been led down a path of sheltering for so long any discomfort is unbearable? This must be a really horrible existence. I feel sorry for them but at the same time do think CWs are counter-productive.

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