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Originally Posted by Guest
I had never heard the phrase "trigger warning" before today. I looked it up and recognize it. On television, the warning about "graphic situation and content" before "Law and Order" is a warning for parents to decide if they want their kids to look at the show. I can also understand how a rape victim might be traumatized by watching a show with a graphic rape scene. Those triggers are real! For example, I have had an extremely painful dislocated shoulder accident. I cannot comfortably see a person in a tv or movie situation who has a dislocated shoulder. I can only imagine what the feeling would be for a victim of a sexual assault seeing that on television.
I also looked up micro-aggressions. I did not think before how those could actually be hurtful to others. I am going to try and be more careful in what I say.
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This makes a lot of sense. Before this thread, i had never heard of trigger warnings or micro-aggressions.
I have a friend who had a close call in a house fire several years ago. She now cannot watch a movie that contains scenes of fires. That, like the dislocated shoulder and rape trauma, are forms of PTSD. Basically, the triggers will set off remembered incidents that are too painful to endure.
The micro-aggressions might be hurtful to a few people who have thin skins but are usually not given in a way that was meant to convey belittling another person. Grow up and take it in the spirit of which it was intended.