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)."
(Excerpt) Read more at punditpress.com ...
Maybe the poor dears should all go back to the kitchen and let their husbands do the thinking for them. They sound too fragile for the rough and tumble of public life.
Ping.
Nothing says equality and I’m as tough as a man as banning what you can say or talk about.
The feminist hatred of Roy Rogers is palpable.
Those girls will NEVER get a husband talking this way.
Not one that is worth a damn, that’s for sure.
This makes crazy people look sane
Madness. The insane talking to the insane.
Not the Christians and others getting their heads chopped off
“Triggering”, a sign given by the triggered that they are wacko, and should be on sedatives.
These women marry the government.
#first_world_millennial_feminist_female_SJW_problems
“triggering” is a concept intended to shut down conversation about any topic that a female SJW considers verboten. they’ve been taught that their right not to hear something they disagree with not only exists, but trumps your right to free speech.
Would that I had the writing eloquence of Dean Jonathan Swift to make proper mock of this pretentious garbage. That a ‘Trigger Warning’ would trigger a panic attack would seem to be satire belonging to ‘The Onion’ but it is, unfortunately, all too real.
Like much / most of Political Correctness, it is the ongoing effort to geld open discussion of ideas and to institute pre-emptive thought crime as determined by the ad-hoc MEO (Most Easily Offended.)
FWIW, “fruity” is off limits too. ;)
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