Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/The merit of trigger warninings/reply (2)

I have a fairly large collection of friends who have been raped, molested or otherwise sexually assaulted in their lives, and none of them are fans of trigger warnings, especially for TW's own sake.

The only time I find it useful is if it's either 1) highly unexpected (a blog about a news story about a shotting that happens to end up discussing a rape - and even then, eh) 2) in explicit discussions of situations and emotions. (emotions are far more likely, in my personal experience, to make me shudder) or as Knight said, if it's fiction, to let you know that rape is part of the fiction so you aren't reading along a nice love story for escape and find yourself where you don't' want to be. :-)

but I gotta say, if you are still so traumatized that the word *rape*, or a simple comment in a news article or discussion group will trigger you, you probably are not ready to be on the "general" internet yet, period. I don't mean to victim blame, if that's what i just did.