[ SECRET POST #2790 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2790 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Words that have lost meaning to you?

[nyxelestia]

One of the dichotomies I'm sitting on is that a.) I can absolutely see how "cunt" would be a trigger for some (it's all too easy to suspect that it was a repeated slur during one or more sexual assault for victims around here), but also b.) there are probably a lot of words, objects, and other situations like that.

I mean, someone may genuinely have a PTSD response to something like, say, dogs, if they were once attacked by a dog viciously enough to land in the hospital, or if a rapist used a dog to subdue them somehow. But that doesn't mean I find it reasonable to expect a trigger waring for every potential trigger because that means anything and everything could be a trigger.

It reminds me of a Tumblr scandal in the weeks following Dreamworks first releasing the HTTYD-2 preview, showing the world older!Hiccup for the first time. A lot of people were posting about it without any kind of tags at all - no character tags, spoiler tags, etc. - and then someone got upset because older!Hiccup looked a lot like their rapist, so they were getting triggered by what was previous their favorite blog.

And I'm a big believer in tagging extensively - definitely, I think anyone who didn't include a character tag was being kind of stupid, and anyone who didn't put in a spoiler tag or even just an "How To Train Your Dragon 2" or "HTTYD 2" tag was an outright asshole. But by the same token, I don't think "Hiccup" - as a character - requires a trigger warning just because he causes a PTSD reaction in one person due to a relatively obscure circumstance.

There has to be a happy medium between "no tags or warnings" and "all the tags and warnings".