• HereIAm@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s an all or nothing unless you want to be the ruler who decides whose phobia is common or sever enough to justify a content warning.

    Sorry, Jane Doe, but your xanthophobia just isn’t common enough to warrant a content warning.

    I don’t mean to demean you, but saying that your particular phobia is bad enough to warrant a cw, but then saying that someone else’s isn’t, comes off as quite a poor take.

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      2 days ago

      I don’t see any Janes claiming xantophobia. What’s the percentage of xantophobes in the world, even? Because you have one ophidiophobe here already speaking up with a phobia sitting at 10% prevalence. Actually, I know a handful of ophidiophobes and you might too. How many secret xantophobes do you think you know? It’s probably zero. How about arachnophobes? At least one.

      So I ask again, why does it have to be all or nothing? Ask anyone what the three top animal phobias are and I guarantee snakes is one of them every single time. You say you don’t mean to demean and yet that’s all I’m hearing.