Irritated

[infryq]

Of the three people I know who have declared their dislike for the practice of posting trigger warnings above frequently-unbalancing content, guess how many of them are big white cis men whose SOs are women?


OK, so not all of them are big. One of them is average-sized. But then, he works out, and looks it. So.



(...Indeed, I am not impressed.)

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[cos]

Did they say what they dislike about it?

[infryq]

inorite? At least two of them hate *seeing* trigger warnings, they roll their eyes and say things like "people should just grow up" and "political correctness gone mad" &c, your basic Wow You Clearly Don't Understand stuff. But the most recent post was this:

http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/you-are-triggering-me-the-neo-liberal-rhetoric-of-harm-danger-and-trauma/

...which afaict doesn't describe what's bad about trigger warnings per se, but casts them as a symptom of a heinous pattern of one-up-manship and energy wasted on community in-fighting that would be better spent elsewhere.

His comment was, "What I get out of people who are worried about potentially triggering people is less friendly, helpful harm reduction, and more like passive-aggressive conversation management." As someone who personally appreciates TWs and sees them having the opposite effect, I would be more inclined to grant him his observation if he were more inclined to check his privileges.

It's difficult for me to believe he has the perspective required to understand that, "I don't want you to judge me poorly because I said this thing," is not in the same league as, "I don't want to have a panic attack because I went on the internet."