as small as a world and as large as alone, claudiaboleyn: You know a group of people you...

4:12pm June 18, 2014

You know a group of people you don’t want to have anything to do with ever?

People who get angry about trigger warnings.

They get irrationally angry about something that literally makes no difference to their lives whatsoever, just because it doesn’t hold any benefit to them personally. Even though it makes life safer and happier for other people.

These people are selfish, majorly lacking in empathy, and apparently need everything to be about them all of the time.

Remember this, friends, because I am seeing more and more people getting hate for tagging their posts.

As an extra note, if anybody ever needs me to tag something, then send me an ask, and I will do so. You don’t have to feel embarrassed about phobias or any other sorts of triggers.

Yes, the world is a pretty cold place, but I don’t see why that means we can’t try to make the internet that little bit nicer to make up for it.

Although some people aren't able to do trigger warnings, or aren’t able to consistently do them, and that’s different than people who just don’t want to do them. I have a friend who can’t consistently tag or trigger warning, I can usually do tw: stuff in tags (on common topics, can’t memorize lists of unusual ones) but not consistently elsewhere, and we both try to warn our readers so they can make a considered decision over whether it’s safe to read our blogs.

Weirdly enough, there have been impassioned debates over trigger warnings and splats for over ten years now in various communities. I am okay with trigger warnings to an extent, I really don’t like splats at all. I know people who came out of those debates against trigger warnings, specifically because of the way those debates used to fall, and I don’t think of them as awful people who just don’t care about others.

I think trigger warnings are a good thing when someone is capable of doing them. I don’t think they’re always possible for everyone to do, and I don’t think they take zero effort. (Like many things that “take zero effort”, they only seem to take zero effort because some people have that ability, while others have a really hard time with it.)

I try to trigger warn in tags. Very occasionally I’m able to trigger warn outside of tags. In tags, I’ll both tag with the word itself, and I’ll also tag with tw: the word. So like #death, #tw: death. I’ve been told to do both by different people, each of which insists that their way is the only way to do it right, so I try to do both. But I can’t trigger warn for everything, only the most common things. And I can’t always remember to trigger warn. So knowing that, some people may want to avoid my blog, I don’t know.

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