I want my blog to be safe for anyone who chooses to read it. If you are triggered or squicked by a particular topic, you can contact me at ozyfrantz@gmail.com, via my Twitter or Tumblr, or in the comments (Tumblr is probably the best if you want to be anonymous). I will happy to warn for anything, no matter how bizarre or out-there.
Currently, my blog warns for:
- Self-harm
- Forced institutionalization or treatment of neurodivergent people and psychiatric abuse
- Rape and other forms of sexual violence
- Abuse
- Eating disorders and weight/food talk
- NSFW content
At my discretion, I will refrain from, for instance, trigger-warning rape on a post that says “rape” in the title, because that seems goofy.
Hey, I’d never encountered the term “trigger” in that sense until Andrew Hussie had Kankri use it in Homestuck.
Had it existed previously, or did Hussie just make it up? xD
(Hm, missed checking “Notify me of follow-up comments via email” when I posted that. Is there no way to follow a post’s comments without actually making a new comment?)
Owen: “Trigger” is commonly used in the mental health community to refer to things that set off really bad states– most commonly it’s used in relation to PTSD, but it’s also used about panic attacks, borderline personality disorder, etc.
This is completely reasonable.
I’ve participated in feminist and LGBT spaces where flatulence, clipping cat toenails, and the word “anxiety” received trigger warnings, and it seriously got to a point where the trigger warnings served as big ol’ “HEY READ THIS, IT WILL UPSET YOU!” signs, flashing in 50-ft tall neon letters. Unsurprisingly, posters who trigger-warning’ed their content most frequently were the most popular, by leaps and bounds.
TL;DR: Discretion is excellent, and underutilized.