General So How Do You Guys Think About Trigger Warnings And Safe Spaces?

[Never_falter2]

Never heard of microaggression. What country does that originate from?

I grew up hearing n...

I don't want to devaluation you're feelings here but there I think you are being a bit rude. There is not need to tell me to get educated about the life of women. I am a woman, but that does not mean I have to see everything trough a hardcore feminist lense. I choose to see some things through other lenses, such as the eyes of a spouse of someone with PTSD or a mother of boys.

I am not sure if we both have the same definition of a "safe space". I am not opposed to women shelters and so on. That was not what I meant. When I used the words "safe space" I used it how it is typically used when talking about microagression as "a place free from every trigger and everything that could be interpreted as microagression".

I see myself as a feminist - meaning someone who wants equal rights for women.
But then there is some feminist who just hate men being men and see them as potential rapists, thugs and opressors while women are seen as saintly. Men have feelings too. Most men have no interest in raping somebody but want to be their woman's partner and protector.

My main point however was something different. I am seeing with worry that just everything on this earth is labeled traumatic and unsafe those days. Men as a gender are labeled as unsafe, yet it is often men who put themselves in harms way to protect a woman.

 

[Gs172003]

Are you serious?

You don't even understand that sex is consensual? Rape is not getting consent?...

I see extremes on both sides. Something has to give.

 

[Nessa7]

I'm really curious, I swear!

Can I ask if you frequent Tumblr?

I don't go there, but I heard the feminist community there is rampant, pushing things like "trigger warnings for red ice cream!" and such. Ok that was a slight exaggeration but Tumblr is indeed at the forefront of the movement of screaming "trigger" for things that are merely slightly annoying. Hoo-boy.

Trigger warnings for college classes, trigger warnings for clapping (yes, clapping), trigger warnings for anything and everything that doesn't make you feel warm and fuzzy.

Tumblr isn't really all that different than any other social media website. It skews more young and female, so you're more likely to see that kind of nutty behavior than other kinds. Misusing the phrase "trigger warning" is part of the culture, but that's more likely to come from someone that is young and uninformed and just doesn't realize that they could just as easily talk about "content warnings" without anyone having an issue with it.

If you go on Reddit, you're more likely to see the nutters saying offensive things about women. On Facebook, they're looking at fake news. It's more of a case of people always doing strange things on the internet, but I think that some people with an agenda like to present it differently and people repeat it without actually spending a lot of time there to see for themselves.

It's more of an issue for bigger bloggers, who are going to get strange attention no matter what. Most of mine comes from pro-self-harm blogs, so I'd be rather keen on switching if I had the option.

 

[Nicolette]

I'm shutting down this thread... it has nothing to do with Supporters and is becoming argumentative.