Cheers entities, I need your help.
I’m writing a paper in which I need to argue that gay panic is a term that is being reclaimed by the queer community, after having been used for evil far too long. I was wondering whether anyone on here got a better idea than citing urban dict. Any and all help is greatly appreciated :3

P.s.: The paper isn’t entirely about gay panic, but rather needs this snippet to ā€œproveā€ that the Webis Trigger Warning Corpus 2022 is at least partially flawed.

  • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 days ago

    Recalimed yes, but I find the term is still linked to homophobia. In this case internalized homophobia that leads to a fright, when realizing you find a person of the same sex attractive.

    Depending on your papers topic you might also dig into the effects of trigger or content warnings on the audience. I heard of papers that suggested that the use of trigger warnings can cause a stress reactions in people, which leads to them percieving the offensive content as far worse than the control group who was not given a content warning. (Or something along those lines. Sorry, it’s been some time)

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      12 days ago

      Those are good points and thank you for your recommendation. I’ll dig into that for the ethical considerations part!