Forum Overview :: Gamergate :: Give me your arguments against trigger warnings

[quote name="Dobson"]Obviously they are stupid and pointless and another laughable attempt by pussies to control what people say. What's a good reply to stupid shit like this? [quote]This is the only conclusion I can come to because time after time again, when challenging me on implementing trigger warnings at their events and organizations, people have failed to give me any real concrete cost to having a five second warning at the beginning of a screening or a reading or a performance. It always reaches to the same old tired abstract points: "you're destroying intellectual thought" - no, you can still have your play or lecture or whatever with the exact same content, and if the whole value of your thing relies upon people not knowing the shock value going in, I'm going to say it's a pretty shitty play in the first place; "people with PTSD need exposure theory" - good, they can use your trigger warning to figure out what level of exposure it's at, and anyway, you're not their therapist; "youth are so spoiled these days" - yes, how dare youth have the audacity to complain about being raped and having racist slurs constantly yelled at them and needing accessibility accommodations to deal with the mental health issues they've developed as a result of that. And of course people who oppose it have to resort to abstract, nonsensical dogwhistles: there's no actual logistic reason to oppose it. It costs nothing, it barely takes any time, it's basically the most benign statement you could say about something - a vague snip of description about the content! The only explanation for a lot of the tired old excuses that I encounter is that perhaps people are opposed to trigger warnings because of engrained prejudice, and they need to scramble for some kind of rationalization to cover that. posted by Conspire at 11:25 AM on August 11 [95 favorites][/quote] I can destroy her stupid arguments, and I despise people that set up their fake counter arguments and then want to seem intelligent for barking easily-disputed rhetoric against it, but I want someone else to go first. [/quote]