Sarah is allergic to strawberries. As soon as she puts them in her mouth, her face swells up and she gets hives. As far as she knows it’s not life-threatening, but she knows any food allergy has the potential to be dangerous and life-threatening and is so is careful.
Sally is also allergic to strawberries, and has the same symptoms.
Sarah informs her friends she is allergic to strawberries so they can stop using them in shared food and preparing shared food with the same utensils. Some of them even stop eating strawberries too (or, at least, stop eating them around her), so she is more comfortable. Sarah researches places she can eat out that will take care with her allergy, and chooses restaurants who agree they can accommodate her, or who do not use strawberries in any of their cooking. She also carries her Epi-pen, just in case cross-contamination takes place.
Sally, on the other hand, goes into restaurants specifically advertising only strawberry desserts, orders a dessert, and makes a huge fuss when she gets sick. She takes to social media, the local newspapers, everywhere, to tell people how terrible this restaurant is for not specifically accommodating her personal allergy. She goes back frequently to insult and harass specific staff. Some staff have even quit because of her. Sally says it is her personal right to have her allergy accommodated in every single place she feels like eating! She posts pictures of herself all swollen and ill everywhere (and sometimes, from in hospital!) and blames the restaurant and the staff for her discomfort.
Be like Sarah, not like Sally.
Control your own consumption of content, don’t enter tags you don’t like, and don’t harass creators that make things you don’t like because you’ve decided you have to have the entire internet cater to your personal likes and comforts.
Sunny is not allergic to strawberries. She just doesn’t like them. But a friend of hers who was allergic to strawberries accidentally got served them one time because the friend forgot to specify no strawberries, and as a result, Sunny is on a crusade to prevent strawberries from being served anywhere, for the sake of people who have allergies who might forget to specify that they have allergies. Sunny believes it is wrong and evil to serve strawberries because they could cause harm to people with allergies even if the menu specifically calls out that there are strawberries and you should ask for a substitution if you have a strawberry allergy. Nothing but simply never serving strawberries in public will satisfy Sunny’s desire to “protect” people who are allergic to strawberries.
Sunny eats nuts all the time and loves them. She never says anything about people who are allergic to nuts.
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