News Trigger Warnings Becoming A Fad?

[PTSDfree]

@gizmo and @DissociativeBelle, I want to let you know that you...

I love this, @DharmaGirl. I'm all up for a rooster president. His tendency to force himself onto other hens sounds like he's really good at asserting his dominance over inferior people. I know that he's trained now, but his masculine abilities could come in handy with stealing those darn North Koreans' nukes.

 

[Gs172003]

@gizmo and @DissociativeBelle, I want to let you know that you...

I think ( not sure, but think) I know of what site you speak

 

[Gs172003]

@gizmo and @DissociativeBelle, I want to let you know that you...

I'll vote for your rooster if you let mine run with him. Same with the girls but not aggressive at all. He eats out of my hand and is very docile. Just right for a vice president :)

 

[EveHarrington]

I think it's crazy how people go overboard in trying to protect others from being triggered.

I'll never forget reading articles about some feminist conference/lecture/whatever that banned clapping-------yes, CLAPPING------because it "triggered" people. Talk about misuse of a term! Instead people had to use "happy hands" as a sign of approval.

 

[The Albatross]

Trigger warnings bother the holy f' out of me. I get annoyed and skip when someone gives them, spoiler alerts as well.

 

[Silver.]

@EveHarrington
*cracking up*
all I can picture is a bunch of women doing Jazz hands (and for some reason in my head, they are all in leotards)
made my morning lol

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I get annoyed and skip when someone gives them, spoiler alerts as well.

What about some sort of content advisor? Like a graphic content warning or something like that.

I ask as that was brought up in here as being acceptable by many and many people say to me that i should put some sort of warning on posts that are graphic. So was just wondering your take on that.

 

[The Albatross]

Personally I prickle at that sort of thing - it is my job to deal/manage so no on the content advisor stuff for me thanks - and I seem to remember that Anthony was against that (at one point anyways) as well. Perhaps graphic stuff should be more in your diary but it's my own business to manage what is written anywhere on this forum.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Perhaps graphic stuff should be more in your diary but it's my own business to manage what is written anywhere on this forum.

Yeah, I like that too as I don't get triggered at graphic content so it wouldn't bother me.

I have, when advising my story is the first page of my dairy, advised that it's graphic so read at your own risk. I say that so it's not like "HELLO" to someone, but i agree that it is up to us all to manage triggers.

Thanks for advising your view!

 

[mudbug]

Hm. I'm not totally opposed to trigger warnings when they are used responsibly. I don't think they are overused in every day life, but that is mostly because my university does not use trigger warnings at all so I don't see them everywhere like apparently everyone else does? In fact I've never experienced a trigger warning anywhere but tumblr...

The thing about exposing people to these things is, it should really be done with preparation until they are better equipped to handle the topic. Shoving rape in someone's face and saying "hey its exposure therapy, grow up" isn't going to work and may make it worse. I got triggered in class when the student led discussion suddenly and pointlessly went to the topic of rape. I full on dissociated to the point where I didn't even hear 90% of the conversation and I still don't know how I got home after that. Which is honestly just dangerous and didn't help me get past my fears one bit. If anything things got a lot worse after that. I stopped taking campus classes and actually withdrew from people so I wouldn't have to hear them talking about rape again. Of course that was before I was in therapy or even knew what dissociating was.

Now I kind of wish in some course descriptions they would at least give a warning to say "Difficult topics such as this and this and this have a history of coming up in this course" so at least you can be prepared. I think a good example of trigger warning was in a forensic class I took. Obviously I knew there was possibly going to be some gory stuff, so I was somewhat prepared. I'm like, 100% good with osteology, but I can't do fleshy stuff. Luckily this field is like 99% bone stuff. But on a powerpoint the teacher uploaded she made a simple slide describing the photos on the next one and said the pictures could be skipped if needed. So I was glad to at least get a warning to be prepared for well... nice processional shots person's decaying maggot covered flesh... and knowing ahead of time made it much easier to look.

I guess my point is, I don't think trigger warnings should be overused so students can get out of doing things, but I do see their importance as WARNINGS to prepare students to fortify themselves mentally in order to confront things that are much more difficult for them to confront than the average student. There is literally nothing wrong with that.

Now, on tumblr... that's a completely different story. I've seen people trigger warn for posts just talking about a normal day at work "tw: retail" like... thats too much.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Shoving rape in someone's face and saying "hey its exposure therapy, grow up"

I'm not triggered by hearing about rape. Or anything graphic. So how do you know all or even most are triggered by rape? What if I am triggered by penguins?

 

[mudbug]

You're really attached to that example. Why consistently use a heuristic in judgement to defend a straw-man of all things?