(October 25, 2015 at 11:23 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Trigger warnings are totally ridiculous.
Guess what, you're going to run into things in life that offend you. That's life. You can't expect everyone to go out of their way to warn you, or sugar-coat what they're going to say just to please you.
This girl at work the other week had this wonderful moment about "oh I don't use foul language" because I let the word "shit" slip out. It's the way people act like we've never heard these things before, censoring swear-words like "f**k" in newspapers as though none of us can work out what that word is saying.
I don't expect every possible trigger to be warned against. It's not physically possible, and going overboard is extreme and probably not necessary.
I however deeply appreciate when people do put trigger warnings before things like pictures of slashes. I'm not saying it should be mandatory, but it is very considerate and I'm grateful for people who do it. I didn't need to see that and fight the urge to hurt myself for the rest of the day, or break down.
