This somewhat alarming video was recently posted in Reddit’s GamerGhazi subreddit. It features Sarkeesian Effect co-creator Jordan Owen explaining, at some length, his disagreements with antiporn feminist Gail Dines over the book Fifty Shades of Grey. (Dines, you see, was Owen’s previous obsession, before he discovered Anita Sarkeesian; this video is a couple of years old.) Alas, the sound cuts out about halfway through the nearly hour-long video, so you won’t get to hear the whole thing.
You might also be slightly distracted by the fact that Owen delivers this lengthy critique while sitting naked in a bathtub.
Yeah, I think I googled that once. It was a mistake.
Okay, keeping my mouth shut from now on. Every time I’ve commented on this website in the past few weeks, I’ve ended up stepping on somebody’s toes without meaning to.
So, I googled it, with pictures, and I’m afraid my reaction was “meh”.
But it doesn’t relate to the pomegranates nonsense anyway, because that person was claiming that pomegranates look like gore, and then venturing into “if it is fruit” territory, which was downright ridiculous.
Also, we can’t tag for everything that might potentially freak someone out. It’s impossible. Tagging for stuff that’s really common and likely to affect a large number of people reading, like rape, is one thing, but expecting the internet to anticipate all the things that might freak you out even if they’re really uncommon and preemptively wrap you in bubblewrap is unreasonable.
Catalpa–huh. I knew that irregular hole patterns wigged me the fuck out, but I never knew what to call it.
BRB, googling something I shouldn’t.
Yeah, I’m not saying that everyone should pre-emptively tag everything that could ever possibly be triggery. Just saying that it would be nice for people to be aware/willling to listen about some things and maybe be willing to tag it if asked by their followers. *shrug* I mean, it’s their blog to do with as they please, and tumblr is pretty extreme with the OMG TRIGGERS THAT TRIGGERS ME ALDJLDFHJL thing, but consideration of others is nice.
The pomegranate didn’t actually induce that feeling in me, but I’m not everyone.
Not quite sure what that has to do with “if pomegranetes are a fruit”, but OK.
It doesn’t really have much to do with the pomegranate thing and I don’t think pomegranates are triggery for most/any tryphophobes.
I guess the connection in my head was hearing the “Plant material can’t be triggering! It’s PLANTS” gist, and decided to pipe in with a “well, actually…” without remembering that people aren’t privy to my internal monologue.
It’s floraist to assign firm fruit/vegetable roles without inquiring first.
Hey, I don’t really think it is something to put a trigger warning on, I’m just glad to find a way to describe something I’ve experienced since childhood.
Though I do think the “phobia” might be the wrong suffix, but I don’t know the latin for “skin-crawling nausea”.
It was more “plants are not gore, and yes, it really is a fruit, that is not something I’m telling you because I’m a lying liar what lies”, but whatever. This conversation is making my head hurt.
Formication?
Scared to ask: what would Jordan consider a pornography expert to be?
Have a big-ass cat versus tiny Chihuahua:
Himself?
I thought it was just me. First happened when I had a fever as a child…I saw holes melting in the wall … caused a flush, nausea, skin crawling, dizziness, and blurry, dark around the edges vision. Horribly unpleasant. Has happened many, many times since.
That cat looks so annoyed. I would be too if some little bouncy thing with too much energy kept smacking me in the face for no apparent reason.
@wordsp1nner
Yeah, I agree, it’s not a visual that inspires OMG PANIC AAAAAHHHHH feelings, which is what I think most phobias do? (I only have tryphophobia, not other ones).
It’s more of a ‘no no no no eugggggh no my skin is crawling’ deal. I don’t know if that falls under fight-or-flight response or something else. It’s decidely unpleasant, but I also dunno if it can really be compared to being triggered.
it being the trypophobia..still can’t believe it has a name
cassandrakitty–does the cat look like you when dealing with tumblr feminists?
Spiders give me both the skin crawling and the panic get it away from me feelings, and if I have to touch one my skin crawls for hours afterwards. Still don’t expect people to go all TW : SPIDERS every time there is one on their blog though.
Irene, hope your kitty is ok!
aebars, I do put a lot of time into this blog, but three short posts don’t take up more time than one long one.
@ wordspinner
Nah, the cat isn’t actually leaving the room.
@diana6815
Yeah, it’s got a name! And it’s not terribly uncommon in my experience, just hard for most people to articulate.
Most folks who know about it seem to have learned by googling tryphophobia after seeing the word somewhere, and then going “AAAAAHHHHH” when the image results popped up.
@catalpa
unfortunately, I googled the word and accidentally saw some pictures (thought I was safe if I didn’t do an image search…nope. two web links and then pictures in the results list). Nearly lost consciousness.
I guess it’s good to know I’m not nuts 🙂 well, for that reason anyway.