Okay can yall reblog this to share something that’s actually helpful? There are two websites that can assist people with triggers to know whether or not a movie is going to be something they should avoid. The first one is:
Originally created to list whether or not the animals in movies were harmed, it has expanded to list a number of triggering things like people being cut, jumpscares, strobe effects, vomit, deaths of children, and many more. For some categories it links to:
which has a similar format to Does the Dog Die but deals with a variety of sexual themes. It even elaborates on some of the checked categories just to let you know how serious or in what way the category is expressed in the movie.
I don’t like the environment of tumblr scaring people into thinking they don’t have the help or resources they need to live happy and without anxiety unless the right PSA floats across their dash. If there are any other databases anyone knows of that provide more info about media or elaborate upon MPAA ratings, please comment. Let 2018 be a year of empowerment.
some other sources:
common sense media is a generalized and well updated site that gives content warning as a guide to parents, but is also relevant and very helpful if youre looking for your own uses
also all IMDB movie pages have a ‘parents guide’ section that is extremely thorough and gives a description of all potentially disturbing scenes grouped by sex, violence, drugs/alcohol, etc
and wheres the jump is great for horror movies, it gives an exact timestamp and description of any jumpscares in the movie
First of all, why the hell didn’t I know Janelle Monae and Tessa Thompson were gay? And second of all, why the hell didn’t anyone tell me they were dating (yes, Tumblr gays I’m looking at you!)
I mean, look at this cute shit!
I’ve always had a feeling about these two. good to know they found each other
20 Gay Teen
Im so so so so happy for them. Janelle always avoided the sexuality questions during interviews but I always knew and felt her music to be explicitly reflective of a queer identity. Some were more poetic like the android being in a “forbidden love” with a human man, others more explicit with lyrics like: “Am I a freak because I love watching Mary? (Maybe)
Hey sister am I good enough for your heaven?
Say will your God accept me in my black and white?
Will he approve the way I’m made? ”
“Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s moral!”
Well, okay, yes, but what does mean it’s moral, then? Are we going to rigidly enforce the “your age divided by 2 plus 7” rule? Are we going to just use 18 as the age when it all becomes ok, despite the fact that a majority of the world does not and has never used that age, and there’s no moral or physiological reasoning behind it? Are we going to go by brain development and say nobody under 23 with anybody over 25, even if that is a broad generalization with plenty of people being almost entirely matured before age 20 and many others not ceasing development until nearly 30?
Is it just based on what you find uncomfortable? What gives you the right to decide that for hundreds of millions of teens the world over?
“It’s based on what everyone thinks is wrong” mmmmno, then we’re back to legality, and also that social acceptance of an idea means it isn’t morally wrong. you can probably think of a few examples of that going poorly.
“It’s coercive!” Okay, now we are definitely getting somewhere. Underage relationships and relationships between older adults and teens are wrong because they’re vulnerable to coercion, and because age may mean that they cannot give informed consent. But it’s the coercion and the lack of consent that’s wrong, not the age per se.
And so now we have an actual criteria that isn’t legality (or any other arbitrary numbers) to judge a relationship off of: is it coercive?
And now we have to ask questions like:
Do both parties fully understand what they are consenting to, including the possible physical and emotional consequences?
Is anybody being pressured by internal or external pressures – a need for attention they can’t get otherwise, social acceptance, or a need for the relationship to be secret?
Is one party in a position of direct authority over the other, and the subordinate might feel that refusing would have negative consequences, regardless of whether that has been actually threatened?
In fact, is one party in a position where they could have any sort of fear that saying no would have negative consequences? Does either party feel that they could not walk away without the other inflicting any sort of consequence?
If one of these things is there, then yes, we need to look extremely hard at whether the relationship is really consensual.
But if someone is above the age of legal consent, informed, and not being in any way coerced – on what basis can you say it’s morally wrong?
Or is this just about what makes you uncomfortable, and not about consent or coercion at all?
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