Why aren’t there safe filters that can protect your dear little eyeballs from the things you’d like not to see most, when what you’d like not to see most is on the person’s profile?
Well, assuming that what you’d like not to see most is the same sort of thing that the safe filters work on, anyway.
Or is that something, the use of a safe filter, solely at the discretion of the poster? Because, I was browsing around and ran into a truly offensive profile. Not just because it was cussy-faced in nature or just because it had nude drawings on it; but, because it was very aggressive and obviously intended to shock and put everyone who trespassed there into a state of awe over the extreme coolness of the poster.
I started using safe filters for a reason. That reason being, to put it as simply as possible, because I’m old enough to know what I like and what I don’t have time for in my life.
Well, one little profile, no matter how shockingly rude and childish it tries to be, will not detain me from my adulthood or even slow me on my path, but I do find it odd that many of this person’s works are behind a safe filter but their spewing tirades of trashy language are allowed to roam freely about, maiming the intellect of whomever stumbles across them.
It’s, to but it plainly, weird!
Dana DiPasquale
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2 months ago
it is up to the artist to put on the filter but when you find something you think needs the filter but doesn’t have it, you can report is as needing a filter. RB admin will put one on if they agree
Arletta in reply to Dana DiPasquale’s comment, 2 months ago
Thank you! That was a lovely, informative comment.
JenniferB, 2 months ago
mmm… an evocative journal entry and subject matter Arletta. I agree with what you say in part, but each human being is unique in their differences, as too are the pieces of Artwork and Words they create.
What one person may find offensive and shocking, may provide a therapeutic, healing experience for another, in the same way that a piece of art may be perceived by the observer as being created solely for ‘shock purposes only’, whereas to the artist it may well have been a truly, shocking experience they were intending to portray.
More importantly, does the Artwork or writing itself put across an important societal message, irrespective of how the image is perceived by the random observer?
It’s a perplexing, somewhat sensitive and controversial subject that you raise for sure, for really it questions censorship and how far, or not, society should go, in order to restrain an artist’s right to express themselves in whatever way, their psyche sees beneficial to them in order to create…
Liken it to the anonymous, online attention-seeker who continually threatens to commit suicide and yet never ‘pleases’ their voyeuristic, prospective, audience by following through… Does this make the publisher of such content an offender? Someone who should be kicked off a message board, as off-handedly as an unruly child is kicked out of a classroom or school to become someone ‘else’s’ problem?
Or could it be that the anonymous poster, has deep-seated issues, aside from committing suicide, which require care and attention anyway?
Okay, so I’ve gone off on a tangent, but I believe, due to the strength of your writing, that you’re aware enough to at least consider what I’m talking about.
I think Art, more-so is a media of which we need to be really sensitive as to how we shape our viewpoints and actions, for many Artists I have known personally, have created purely for therapeutic purposes, and yes, for this very reason, their Art, Writing or Photographic work may appear to be ‘shocking’, and yet, trashing that person’s artwork may well be trashing their very soul, of which you described so potently in your exceptionally, well-written poem today.
We never really know for certain sometimes, just who it is that hide behinds a piece of writing or art, in order to determine what their true intention or situation is, so I guess, my rule of thumb is to tread carefully, in lieu of feeling instantly offended and pressing the proverbial red button. ;-)
Just another perspective hun.
You’re welcome to either take it, debate it, or leave it. :-)
much love
Jennifer B
xox