Wow I'm pretty shocked by the comments in this thread. I always like to think of hubski as a very feminist space, but nearly everything in this wasteland below is pure aggression.

Trigger warnings have always elicited rage for some reason on the internet. I understand people not wanting to use them, but I also don't understand people's absolute refusal to allow other people to use them to their own liking. Obviously something is going to trigger someone for reasons you can't predict, but these complaints always seem to come from people that are outside disadvantaged groups. If someone's going to talk about rape or domestic violence, and you were recently a victim of such, there's a chance you may not want to hear about it at that time. Why is it so bad that the presenter may want to put that information forward prior to the audience taking the information in?

Regardless, that's the lesser issue I'm having right now with this thread. When there are comments bashing serious, academic, sociological terms like rape culture, patriarchy, and privilege, it shows a lack of education at best or a sign of willful ignorance at worst. Equating terms of long standing institutional oppression with 'whiny internet kids' is dishonest. It's like equating economic class warfare to 'thug entitled kids'. It's plays into the concepts at hand and contributes to attempting to silence the people who need a voice the most.