[T]hat's a whole lot of words to spend on something you weren't ever planning on reading in the first place.

— July 25, 2010

HC_bingo, a challenge for writers of hurt/comfort (h/c) fic, was created during the '10 bingosplosion. Sasha_feather promptly posted predicting the challenge was bound to produce lots of terrible offensive fic, unlike the wonderful Kink Bingo, which is never problematic because it provides lots of tl;dr info about the different kinks. Which somehow keeps the offensiveness at bay, idk.

Fellow SJ warrior damned_colonial also chimed in. When told that some people used H/C for therapeutic purposes, damned_colonial actually said, “I kind if feel like if your personal healing is hurtful to other people, then perhaps you need to do it in private. (Maybe with a trusted group of friends, or something.)” Even their fellow SJWs were at a loss to respond to that, and d_c walked it back downthread.

Among the other SJWs involved in or responding to H/C Bingo Wank were Kanata (see here) and Annaham of FWD (see here).

When the bingo mods reacted in a sensitive, wank-avoiding way, the discussion shifted toward the subject of The Evils of H/C, By People Who Would Never Read Any Of That Icky Crap, with a side dish of This Is The One Right Way Of Writing Disabilities/Trauma.

Gentlefailer discussions:

• A thread about kink_bingo that also touches on the H/C debacle.
• A thread on H/C fic, mostly centered on the wank.
• "The H/C Bingo Debacle" — a nonny asks for a summary.
• "Links please?" Another nonny obliges with H/C wank linkspam. Someone else replies, “It's like a huge list of people who think their opinions REALLY MATTER.”
• In early 2012, a nonny writes, “H/C bingo wank was when it really came home to me that SJWs don't give two hoots about minorities who don't subscribe to the party line.” Discussion follows.