I agree mass media sort of has warnings, and fanfic can and probably should do better. My personal problem is with visual media (movies, TV shows) that regard sex as "worse" than violence and the level of rating tends to be mostly about the violence level. Whereas no-one wants to make stuff with perfectly harmless, part-of-the-plot sex because that would require a high rating, so they might as well stick lots of violence and swearing in as well. (I'm Scandinavian, and we tend to have rather the opposite attitude - is the behaviour shown criminal or not?)
So I don't just want ratings, but ratings attached to categories - this movie has R-level violence, while this movie has R-rated sex, but the violence is PG (which is an incredibly rare movie in English).
And I do think this ties into patriarchy etc - what the "mainstream" thinks is acceptable at different ratings levels seems to be more a mainstream male point of view than a female one. And certainly a heterosexual one, and white as far as I can tell.
And then, if I'm dreaming, I wouldn't mind warnings/ratings to do with racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, etc. So I could decide if I had the stomach for those things ahead of time.
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So I don't just want ratings, but ratings attached to categories - this movie has R-level violence, while this movie has R-rated sex, but the violence is PG (which is an incredibly rare movie in English).
And I do think this ties into patriarchy etc - what the "mainstream" thinks is acceptable at different ratings levels seems to be more a mainstream male point of view than a female one. And certainly a heterosexual one, and white as far as I can tell.
And then, if I'm dreaming, I wouldn't mind warnings/ratings to do with racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, etc. So I could decide if I had the stomach for those things ahead of time.