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→Some Definitions and Discussions
I love the term squick. It perfectly describes the concept without assigning any negativity to the thing you dislike, or to people who do like the thing you dislike. It is something you personally do not care for and wish to avoid, simple as that.<ref name="desertneon1">{{source| url = http://desert-neon.tumblr.com/post/138955387188/whats-a-squick | title = What's a squick? | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/6floMtZKd | archivedate = 2016-03-05 }} ask answered by desert-neon, 8 February 2016. (Accessed 14 June 2016.)</ref>}}
I love the term squick. It perfectly describes the concept without assigning any negativity to the thing you dislike, or to people who do like the thing you dislike. It is something you personally do not care for and wish to avoid, simple as that.<ref name="desertneon1">{{source| url = http://desert-neon.tumblr.com/post/138955387188/whats-a-squick | title = What's a squick? | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/6floMtZKd | archivedate = 2016-03-05 }} ask answered by desert-neon, 8 February 2016. (Accessed 14 June 2016.)</ref>}}
{{Quotation2| [2017]:
As an additional data point, as far as I know the term “squick” comes from the [[BDSM]] community, originally. At least that’s where I first encountered it, on BDSM message boards on [[usenet]] in the mid-90s – yes, I was on BDSM message boards in the mid-90s; long story. As such, the implicit lack of judgment is important to the meaning of the word; you need a word to mean “I really don’t want to do that, and I don’t want to watch you doing that, but I don’t judge YOU for liking that and I don’t mind if YOU do it … somewhere far away from me.”
I can’t really think of any other words we have for the same concept that aren’t judgmental to some extent. Anything I can think of to try to define “squick” using non-slangy words (disgusting, unpleasant, etc) have a judgy sort of vibe. And we really do need a word to talk about tropes and kinks in the same kind of way we can talk about how you like that ship and I like this ship but that doesn’t make your ship bad.
(Er, ideally we’d be able to talk about ships that way, obviously, in a perfect world … XD)
I was also thinking about how the original ask implies a very modern fannish mindset that’s just … not there, in the original fandom milieu that the squick concept came out of. Not that I’m saying fandom was better in the old days or anything, god no. But trying to explain ''why'' you have a squick, or asking someone else why they have theirs, is just not a thing you’d generally do. Squicks are irrational; that’s baked into the meaning of the word. Squicks aren’t something you ''explain''. They just ''are''. I mean, you could obviously try to figure it out, just like you can try to figure out why you have a particular kink, but in both cases, you don’t have to explain or justify it in order for other people to accept it as valid. I don’t need to explain that I like h/c for X and Y reasons in order to request it in an exchange. And squick functions the same way.
All of which makes it a very useful word for talking about fandom concepts without implying that someone else’s tastes make them a bad person! <ref>[http://laylainalaska.tumblr.com/post/160136430339/how-was-squick-used-like-would-you-tag-something laylainalaska.tumblr.com]; [http://www.webcitation.org/6znkLo6jt WebCite] </ref>}}
==The Differences Between [[Triggers]] and Squicks==
==The Differences Between [[Triggers]] and Squicks==