"The biases of the creators are encoded as part of the design" is often an axiom of user interface design. This got me thinking; the entire warning-bars-for-CWs thing is *gendered*.
White cis men are often raised with the expectation to be able to say anything, any time, and rarely be challenged by anyone (and mostly other white cis men when they are). There's no expectation of consequences for this behavior.
A lot of femmes, on the other hand, are taught to defer, demure, and not to challenge directly. This is definitely the norm in the US, and to some extent Germany I witnessed while living there for a bit. You know, put it behind physical closed doors, or an superficially innocuous code-word online. There's outright retribution for violating this tenet.
Stepping into the former's shoes, it's no wonder why a key masto developer treats them so snidely. It also explains the headscratching "CWs as censorship" nonsense, and the utter refusal to call the feature what it is:
A subject line.
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