Forum Overview :: Gamergate :: Trigger warnings are spoiler alerts for reality. They normalize victimization.

[quote name="serial malcontent"]How about everyone who had PTSD before these people and went to meetings and therapy and tried prescribed drugs and worked to rebuild their fucking lives, did they need trigger warnings that there was a wal-mart so they wouldn't check its roofline for snipers? Or did they just get their shit together, or else find a way to live that didn't expose them to bad circumstances, like working from home? Sure, plenty of them are dead in a ditch but for them the default was to try to make things work. The response above is just a total abdication of responsibility to someone else, in hope that the people in power will administer such a system well and then you'll benefit, because it's five minutes per product, practically free! Let alone what MM said. He's probably right about that. How do you know I won't intentionally fuck up your system to terrorize you? How do you know I won't come to your event in some fashion that maintains anonymity, like telepresence, and hold a google hangout rape victim conference where the entirety of the video content is clips from A Serbian Film? You don't, and no enforcement agency can guarantee you that it won't happen. I really like the part about how everyone else isn't the alleged victim's therapist. The world is not said victim's therapeutic space. Making an attempt to secure it as such has bad consequences for the person in question. You know how trauma survivors live down trauma? By becoming capable of withstanding the rigors of everyday life, including unpleasant reminders of past diffficulty. The burden of securing that capacity always fell on the individual because society does not do these things well - look around a state-funded medicare nursing home and you see how well this would be handled. Or at our falling-apart roads, or our aging school system. You wanna trust a society that managed this badly to be in charge of scrubbing your world of trauma? Your best friend's world, your wife's, your little sister's? Would you trust big brother to give trigger warnings to your kids? Let's think back to how many saturday morning cartoons rated for a tween audience we personally know were seen by the wrong age group. That's my argument.[/quote]