Sarcasm is an adjusted stress reaction.

It's difficult to articulate why I hate the entire concept of "hopepunk" and quite a lot of the works recommended under that label, because just thinking about it sends my shoulders up around my ears.

This is mostly thanks to my childhood and adolescence, and specifically my parents' friends.

( TL;DR 'hope' and 'wholesomeness' are subjective and not everything needs to be commodified and labelled )

I use Facebook mostly to connect with my family and a few RL friends who aren't around much on LJ/DW, but occasionally I let other people friend me, even though I see their name and marvel at how little they've changed since high school.

(I have totally changed since high school! I can conduct conversations with strangers, now, and I don't accidentally insult people I'm talking to! These were big steps for me!)

So I woke up this morning, and checked my feed and the state of my nephew's gastro. And a girl I had known in high school had done one of those "To stand up against ___________ post this on your wall!" things. Which are, by the way, in no way going to affect the issue in question -- they don't even open a dialogue, it's just lots of people repeating the same monologue ad nauseum. And now they're hitting Tumblr, "reblog if you believe in _________", and it's just glorified spam. Seriously, if you care that much, there are much better ways to advance your cause. And if you just want to be seen to be caring, well, I've got no help for you.

Anyway, this morning it was a long paragraph, every word capitalised, about a mother beating her child to death for an imagined infraction.

( Text behind the cut. Obvious trigger warning is obvious. )

So there was that. And this isn't a trigger of mine specifically, but it still left me feeling pretty upset. And I know for a fact that some of the other high school people on this girl's feed do come from violent backgrounds, and that's not a cool thing to wake up to.

And I really don't see how triggering survivors with your badly-punctuated, emotionally manipulative wank does a single damn thing to prevent child abuse. But no, it actually says, "Post This On Your Wall If Your Against Child Abuse". So really, all you're doing is taking a very brave stance against the abuse of children, without actually doing a single damn thing about it. Except possibly throwing some person's morning into turmoil because you've triggered them. Wow. Way to go.