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I had a post get reblogged and some of the tags for triggers included hands, wrists, fingers, and the color red. There were more on it too, I'll have to see if I can find it again, it was pathetic.
 
The trend of tagging any photograph or drawing of a human (or even an animal) looking towards the viewer as "scopophobia" is one of the dumbest of Tumblr trends.

Somebody who actually had scopophobia explained that it was fucking stupid, because of course a person who's irrationally afraid of being watched can tell the difference between a photograph and a real person, but Tumblr told them just because they felt patronized didn't mean that somebody didn't appreciate it, OMG.
 
harvey dirdban said:
I've known several little people who self-identify as midgets.

I see a lot of "tw: academia" and variations on that theme from people who are in college. One of my favorite currently inactive Tumblr lolcows hit me with "tw: etymology" once. That continues to be my favorite.

I'm also fond of s****ing out all the l*****s in "sl*rs" so you can't tell what the word is. For the longest time I thought "g***y" was "gimpy".
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... hrm. Is it "girly"?
 
I'm curious if a trigger warning has actually stopped anyone from looking at something. The internet has generally been doing something much more effective for ages with "NSFW" or "SPOILER" warnings for and most of the time people still click just out of sheer curiosity. Movies have been giving a general jist of the their content with warnings for years. If I watch something on HBO it will give me a small list of things to expect. These are major things like "violent sexual acts".

However if someone paid me to watch movies to look for various triggers I totally would. You need to know if a man manspreads his legs or mansplains to a woman? I got your back. Then I'll start putting triggers on shit like commercials and magazine ads until you're too fucking afraid to look in the mirror in fear of your reflection giving you a rape stare.

I do it for the hypothetical women and children.
 
Speaking as someone close to a Veteran with real PTSD (you know, like from actual trauma), I find people faking triggers to be very triggering.
What a bunch of ableist shitlords, amirite?
 
Batman VS Tony Danza said:
I'm curious if a trigger warning has actually stopped anyone from looking at something. The internet has generally been doing something much more effective for ages with "NSFW" or "SPOILER" warnings for and most of the time people still click just out of sheer curiosity. Movies have been giving a general jist of the their content with warnings for years. If I watch something on HBO it will give me a small list of things to expect. These are major things like "violent sexual acts".

However if someone paid me to watch movies to look for various triggers I totally would. You need to know if a man manspreads his legs or mansplains to a woman? I got your back. Then I'll start putting triggers on shit like commercials and magazine ads until you're too fucking afraid to look in the mirror in fear of your reflection giving you a rape stare.

I do it for the hypothetical women and children.
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The whole "trigger warning" thing came about specifically from online communities that had a lot of survivors of sexual assault, and if there was an article posted that described or discussed a rape in detail, the trigger warning was used as a courtesy for those who might experience flashbacks.

It was one of those things that migrated from LJ communities and feminist blogs onto Tumblr, where it's now expected that you tag triggers for anything. "Eyes" and "teeth" are tags I see pretty often, because apparently eyeballs and close-ups of teeth bother some people.

I reblogged a cap of a 4chan post one time, discussing squids coming out of the ocean to conquer earth. I got an ask shortly after asking me to tag squids. There was no squid pictured in the post. The very idea of a squid uprising made this person uncomfortable and they wanted me to tag it so they did not have to contemplate a world ruled by cephalopods.

I think a lot of these people were too young to have stumbled across Ogrish and Rotten.com in their heyday. Lord knows how they'd react to goatse.
 
I once encountered someone "triggered" by the word 'yiff'

They got bitchy at me because my old URL had yiff in it. It was a riot.
 
Has anyone ever tagged something with a trigger warming for
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (the fear of long words)? Does the trigger warning then trigger them?
 
DrJoshii said:
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tter-cyberstalking-says-bit-war-veterans.html
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I love how the insanity literally oozes out of Melody Hensley's crazy, retarded face.

What an utter psycho.

Dr. Boe Jangles Esq. said:
Speaking as someone close to a Veteran with real PTSD (you know, like from actual trauma), I find people faking triggers to be very triggering.
What a bunch of ableist shitlords, amirite?
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Melody Hensley, the creep who is the literal poster child for the "triggered" phenomenon, actually stalks and harasses active duty military and reports them to their COs for daring to be offended at her comparison of people disagreeing with her on Twitter to real PTSD.
 
AnOminous said:
I love how the insanity literally oozes out of Melody Hensley's crazy, retarded face.

What an utter psycho.



Melody Hensley, the creep who is the literal poster child for the "triggered" phenomenon, actually stalks and harasses active duty military and reports them to their COs for daring to be offended at her comparison of people disagreeing with her on Twitter to real PTSD.
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I couldn't agree more.

Being "triggered" isn't necessarily stupid, as PTSD is a trigger born of extremely traumatic circumstances, and unlike what Hensley believes, military people are absolutely entitled to their PTSD, as they genuinely have seen horrors I'm sure the average person would probably go utterly crazy trying to deal with, and the fact they are still mostly sane aside from crippling terror at whatever brings back memories of their trauma speaks volumes about their mental fortitude, and the fact they were strong enough to not eat a gun as an easy way out from dealing with the fallout of that trauma is to be commended. Same goes for rape survivors, and being someone who knows both veterans and rape survivors, Hensley has no limit to how much privilege she needs to check by comparison.
 
God damn when did so many people become such weaklings?

Also most people who use trigger warnings should probably use TW: SJW, if they want to be actually be helpful.
 
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Meowthkip said:
The very idea of a squid uprising made this person uncomfortable
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And it should make you uncomfortable! Soon the stars will be right.
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geekboy400 said:
oh yeah i found another blog about triggers http://fuckyeahtriggerwarnings.tumblr.com
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  • Accessibility threats
I didn’t know what to call this one until the last post, but basically it should be used when someone says something with a strong flavor of “I don’t think that we should allow PWD [especially people with triggers/PTSD] on the internet.” Even if they are explicitly combating that notion, or if the implication was completely by accident. This is triggering because it’s a threat, and an especially potent...
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Holy moly, that's kind of like an entrenched trigger.
 
Holdek said:
God damn when did so many people become such weaklings?

Also most people who use trigger warnings should probably use TW: SJW, if they want to be actually be helpful.
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the words SJW are my trigger, please use social justice warrior so that I know you aren't referring to Scientology Jurisdiction Worldwide
 
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