Not always!
Posted on 06/10/2015 11:03:38 AM PDT by rightistight
Everyday Feminism, which "has quickly become one of the most popular feminist digital media sites in the world" according to its website, has banned "trigger warnings" as the warnings themselves could be triggering.
In an article published Sunday, Everyday Feminism set out to explain what the word "triggering" means. The title of the piece is "Not Sure What People Mean By ‘Triggering?’ This Article Is Your One-Stop 101" and was written by Gillian Brown.
At the beginning of the article, however, there is a multiple-paragraph warning about its content. It begins (emphasis theirs): "Editors Note: Like this phenomenal article, Everyday Feminism definitely believes in giving people a heads up about material that might provoke our reader’s trauma. However, we use the phrase “content warning” instead of “trigger warning,” as the word “trigger” relies on and evokes violent weaponry imagery."
It continues, "This could be re-traumatizing for folks who have suffered military, police, and other forms of violence. So, while warnings are so necessary and the points in this article are right on, we strongly encourage the term “content warning” instead of "trigger warning.""
Not feeling like that warning was enough, the article then warns again, "Content Warning: This article discusses triggering in detail and mentions common topics of triggering (sexual assault, anxiety, health anxiety, depression, death, non-specific fears and phobias)."
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Could this be expressed as a recursive triggering function?
Not always!
“Everyday Feminism definitely believes in giving people a heads up about material that might provoke our reader’s trauma.”
If a reader has had a past traumatic experience with mullets, would that mean she has a hair trigger?
*rimshot*
You may now pelt me with overripe produce for that one.
Did they ban ‘scissors’, too? I hear those are dangerous.
Are you a scientist, I hear they make women cry
Warning: The left’s actions described in this article may induce face palming in rational people.
Whereas ISIS would gladly put them all in burkhas and rape the younger ones, but that’s not worth their notice.
I’ve had long lectures with feminists, discussing how as a female engineer, I have more impact than they do with women’s studies. AKA, first female engineer hired by one manufacturer, sometimes only one of two or three females in a business division and mistaken for a secretary.
Also politely lectured the heck out of a middle schooler who tried to tell me art was as necessary as engineering.
You make more of a difference DOING things and impressing people as a result than sitting around complaining and tearing down what others do.
It’s good to see feminists have returned to The Vapors. Victorian women used to pretend to faint when certain words were inadvertently uttered in their presence: pantaloons, for one, pregnant, for another. Their friends should start packing smelling salts.
Saying “beat me to it” would also be a trigger.
Another “code word” bites the dust?
I’m not so sure about this. “Content” reminds me of too many tramatic things. Conservatives. And tents. Are only boys allowed to have tents? That just scares me. I think that is a micro-agression to non-boys.
SNL skit from 1991?
frankly my dear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLnTWxpTQt4
Oh, what a face!
Oh, what a figure!
Two more legs and she’ll look like Trigger.
Or is saying so a trigger?
For some reason I am reminded of this old Rock & Roll song when reading about this sort of stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRkwjmcdCfg
One time at a courthouse, I said that the defendant “shot himself in the foot” regarding his meltdown on the stand. The courthouse nearly went on lockdown. This was in Minnestoopid.
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