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Meriadoc  ·  3906 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Spread of Trigger Warnings

I'm reading people bashing rape culture terms. I'm reading people asking for changes in institutions being mocked as whiny. I'm reading people bashing an idea that doesn't censor anything. No content is being changed, it's simply telling you what the content is.

People like you or I have no real need for trigger warning because we don't have deeply traumatic experiences intrinsically tied to systems that are embedded in our culture. Many times people may be linking to text from, for example, a rapist, describing why or how he rapes. Many people have anxiety disorders from their own rapes. I know many people like this. Trigger warnings are simply for the peace of mind of the reader, not for people who "can't handle seeing realities of the world" (an argument I see often, thankfully not parroted here), but for people who legitimately have mental struggles they're coping with such as anxiety, depression, anorexia, bulimia, where reading certain things have a very real chance of triggering them.