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Maybe this is a stupid question, but what on Earth does McDonald's have to do with eating disorders?

(If they're really complaining about nothing, your best bet is probably to ignore them completely. You could try a polite response--something along the lines of "I don't know what you're talking about; this fic doesn't even mention eating disorders"--but if their response to that is an insult, ignore them, and delete their comments if the site you're posting on allows you to do so.)

The only thing I can think of is that McDonald's makes people fat which can lead to eating disorders? IDK.

Your advice is really good though.

McDonald's doesn't make people fat.

Eating too much McDonald's and not exercising might make you fat, but McDonald's in itself doesn't.

THIS. No one food itself makes anyone fat unless they eat too much of it, but this is a concept that so many people seem to have trouble grasping.

Someone on my flist had people ask her to make a filter so that they didn't see her exercise posts. She's put on some weight and doesn't fit her clothes so well, and doesn't want to buy new clothes, so she's been starting to work out (and joined a sports team she's having a lot of fun with). Apparently, this is triggering to some friends who have had eating disorders in the past, and seeing other people make lifestyle changes makes them want to slide back into bad habits.

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Actually I feel the same way, but don't have an eating disorder. I would never ask someone to censor their posts, I just ignore them or block them myself. I get triggered into anger about the way women police themselves and each other, all the body shame and food shame and diet industry bollocks. That's why I loathe those sorts of posts.

So I do get why people feel triggered, although not sure I get why they can't just block the offending posts themselves.

It's like people wanting you tag pictures of food with trigger warnings on Tumblr, I think. I've seen people ask people I follow to tag any food pictures posts because seeing food triggers them.

See, food pictures bother me to the point of me staying off the net some days, but because I have chronic nausea. Sometimes I can't watch TV because we go to a commercial break and there are commercials for food and it just leaves me feeling incredibly sick. :P So if I'm having a particularly bad day, yeah, I'm just not going to go to Facebook, lest I see people's Instagrammed meal photos. :P So I... sort of understand how that could work? Maybe?

I mean I would tag it "food" just for organizational purposes but

that's starting to get kind of absurd honestly. How do you navigate life...?

Just a guess, but maybe because it's a really unhealthy "binge food".

But then some people just want all food related posts to be labeled with trigger warnings. Kids these days.

I used to have an eating disorder, and while McDonald's doesn't happen to be a trigger for me in particular, I did used to binge on McDonald's and it felt so humiliating, so I actually do understand that trigger.

I wonder how people like that handle the real world, too. It's one thing to try to create your own safe space, but you don't get to designate the whole internet your safe space and demand that everyone conform to your criteria for what's "safe". That's just not realistic.

It is a bit over the top, but I *think* the reason it's triggering is because of the idea of other people fetishizing food/exercise in some way or having to empathize with the pregnant person, not just, like, seeing that stuff in the wild.

I mean, it's kind of excessive imo, but I do think that's what makes the difference for some people (or the best I can explain how it's been explained to me).

da, but it's without a doubt excessive no matter what because those things will be evident in real life everywhere, and it's not like it's a negative thing to see a pregnant woman walking around. She can't alter her reality just so that some people will feel more comfortable. To expect people to not mention pregnancy online is really ridiculous, let alone mention morning sickness. That's not a damn trigger... if people can't deal with reading words that make them slightly uncomfortable, they probably can't handle walking down the street.

It's far from perfect, and he's still something of a hero in the end, but Johnny Depp's Ichabod Crane is pretty damn cowardly. I'd say that's shades better than time-travelling detective. Or whatever this new show is about.

I like the Johnny Depp version, but it's just as far from the source material as this time travel show. There's nothing supernatural in the original story.

I was more addressing the issue of whether or not Ichabod is a coward, as opposed to a strapping action hero. Since that seemed to be the bulk of their issue, and is a linchpin aspect of the whole story. But yes- very far removed from the original tale.

I think it was in an interview that someone (was is Johnny Depp himself) said he only got the part because him fainting looked so funny. And he faints a lot in that movie.

I don't care about trigger warnings for pregnancy or mpreg but I do prefer people tag for it so I can filter it out.

I just have no interest in reading about it.

I was under the impression that it wasn't asking for tagging pregnancy (which is common sense) but even a mention of morning sickness (even if the pregnancy is never shown/talked about).

It begins to get absurd, imo.

The ONLY thing the Sleepy Hollow TV show has in common with Irving's story is a handful of names and the fact that there is a horseman sans head in one episode. I had a very small amount of how-dare-you-ruin-the-book rage, and then I realised that the similarities start and end with the names and it's otherwise an entirely different show.
But they really could have done better with naming the character, show, and town; it's an original story, not a remake or adaptation. It doesn't need to ride on something else's fame.

Take The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (the character names, setting, ghost stories, and horseman), a touch of Rip Van Winkle (the man out of time, the Revolution), the actual Army captain that Crane is probably named after, and Book of Revelation (the Four Horsemen, visions, the witnesses, etc.) and throw it all together.

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