Sadly, "trigger warning" is going the way of "political correctness", that is to say, it is becoming a joke. While I agree with letting people know if an article is going to be explicit in describing a sexual assault, survivors come in all "shapes and sizes" and each of us have different thresholds. We needn't always bow to the "weakest" of us because there is no way of knowing who they are or what will "set them off". We need to look to a norm, and understand for some, even the norm will be too much. One of the comments I read brought up a good point and something which could easily apply here; how often do we ever see or even consider posting "trigger warnings" for stories about war atrocities? I fully admit I don't like threads with titles which are "surprises". I think that is tacky. When that child drowned while escaping Syria, the subject for the thread was VERY clear what it was about and still people complained about it! So much so, the actual event, the tragedy almost became secondary. That was very, very disgusting.
I have noticed, as have other survivors, how often we are told how we should or shouldn't act, and almost always, it is by someone who has never been a victim, much less a survivor! We someone reveals their trauma, there are those who just can't help themselves in telling the person how they are "doing it wrong" and in essence, victimizing the person all over.
Just as we have the one extreme, everything needs a trigger warning, the other is just as bad, IMO, and those are the people who think anything and everything should be up for discussion. one only needs to look at some of the comments in jury results here to see both these extremes exist here. So much so, that times I often feel: "There's clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you."
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