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Okay, so yesterday I decided to look at fandomsecrets from a few weeks ago because I haven't been around lately. And I read the Chuck Palaniuk story that somebody linked. And holy shit, was I grossed out. I thought "Ha! I'm not sqeamish. This won't be so bad," and hubris brought me low. Literally. I walked downstairs and the next thing I know I'm curled up on the living room rug. I'd fainted. Now I feel like an weenie and I've got bruises on my head.
So does anyone else have any stories about weird or over-the-top reactions they've had to media?

...what story? Link to the thread?

(I'm gonna be sorry I asked aren't I)

here's teh link to the story. http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts

it was certainly a thing... :/

That seems... extreme, but I did cringe and physically squirm during the sequence in Dead Space 2 (SPOILERS) where you have to stick a huge needle in your eye.

ewwww. eye stuff is one of my biggest squicks.

Was it the one about the pool? Because that one has been known to make people faint.

I need to read this! I've never fainted before.

I can say that it's not very fun (fainting, that is. No idea about the story).

OP
Yeah, it was "Guts." I'm glad I'm not the only one.

My history teacher read excerpts from The Jungle. He told us not to try to show off. Apparently, the last time he read it, a boy got a hot dog out of his backpack and made a big show of eating it, and one of the girls threw up.

What's the context with the hotdog, out of curiosity?

Part human meat from workers falling into the meat grinder.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is about unsavory sanitation practices in the meatpacking industry, among other things. Knowing just how much pig anus is in your hot dog is unsettling for some people.

Frankly, I just shrug. It's inevitable, and there's no point in being that impressionable unless you plan to give up eating and breathing forever. *eats my super cheap hot dog*

I have never in my life been so glad of being a vegetarian than after I read The Jungle.

I hate to break this to you, but there's plenty of scary, yucky stuff involved in the harvest/packing of just about ALL food. Take vegetables, frex. Most of the vegetables grown in the U.S. are harvested by undocumented workers who are paid an insultingly low wage. Some of them are children. Rarely do the companies who hire them provide adequate food, water or bathroom facilities while they're on the job. So if at some point during their long work day they need to have a piss or take a dump, where do you think they do it? That's why companies advise you to wash your vegetables really well. It's also why there are deadly e.coli outbreaks linked to vegetables. Like this one:

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/01/contaminated-lettuce-came-from-lgma-grower/

Oh, and canned veggies? Everything that gets canned in a factory is exposed to a certain amount of insect matter and rodent droppings, no exceptions. There are laws regulating how much of that stuff can be in your food. The maximum amount allowed by law is not zero.

There are rampant issues in dairy and egg production and packaging as well, but I think you get the point now. By all means be glad you escape the dodgy practices of the meatpacking industry, but I'm not sure how relieved you ought to feel given how inevitable contamination is.

Maybe because I knew beforehand about what The Jungle was about and its historical significance, so I wasn't that grossed out by the book; I was more upset/enraged by when the main character has his "breakdown," which was odd since things of that nature when I hear about them in real life don't effect me in that way.

Re: Visceral reactions

feotakahari - 2014-07-27 00:03 (UTC) - Expand

SPOILERS for The Jungle

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I have a pretty strong stomach and I was fine when I read that story, but I get embarrassed by my reaction to bugs. When I was little I got covered in ants and it was terrible and now I can't stand even looking at photos of most bugs, especially ants. I'm okay with some of them and there are spiders I think are cute, but other times I'm a trembling mess and it's pathetic. Obviously the worst is tv and movies where people are having one of those hallucinations where they're covered in bugs.

I was the OP of a OITNB secret last round where I said I couldn't handle the first episode for several reasons (including but not limited to the sex scenes) and several people said they thought I was being prudish. I don't know why it squicked me out, but I think it was because the whole episode dealt with Piper's misery and humiliation and being the non-consenting witness to strangers having sex was part of that.

Oh, and it felt great to be told that I was a prude and that other TV shows like Game of Thrones (which I also don't watch) are soooooooo much worse so what's my deal, etc. etc.

The first time I watched the ending of the {original) Berserk anime -- I had avoided spoilers so it took me very much by surprise -- I literally curled up on the couch and cried for almost an hour. Not exaggerating, I'm talking HUGE sobs. I could not stop crying. Every time it tapered off I'd get another wave of emotion and I'd start all over again.

(I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it since (even though I did read the manga chapters for the Eclipse, and several volumes beyond.)

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Re: Visceral reactions

silverr - 2014-07-27 03:37 (UTC) - Expand

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Re: Visceral reactions

silverr - 2014-07-27 04:35 (UTC) - Expand

Barefoot Gen.

Augh.

I mean, okay, I knew it wasn't going to be a walk in the park, considering it was based on the true story of a boy who was in Hiroshima when the bomb fell, but. ... AUGH.

I had to leave the room several times while my brother and I were trying to watch it, so I could try to get the impending panic attacks under control. And then I had nightmares for weeks.

I was looking up weird phobias for an assignment, saw 'trypophobia', looked it up, was met by a whole host of photos that I couldn't click out of fast enough. I almost threw up. I have no idea why I have this strong reaction.
For context- trypophobia is an aversion to clusters of small holes, which supposedly is pretty common, but apparently I have it to a relatively strong degree.

I can't even read the word for the phobia without having a mind physical reaction. Sometimes when I hate myself, I'll see how long I can last in Google Images. My record is 20 seconds.

Re: Visceral reactions

xalus - 2014-07-27 06:28 (UTC) - Expand

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I have strong reactions to vomiting, especially IRL, and apparently it's pretty easy to set me off. Even casual depictions of throwing up can make me... uncomfortable. D:

I also have fairly major eyesquick, but apparently that's pretty common so I haven't run into too much trouble there, phew.

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