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sabotabbyCan anyone tell me what the point of issuing a trigger warning without a jump-cut might be?
I admit that this may be a failure to understand netiquette on my part, but it seems to me that if one's intent is to create a safe space for survivors of violence (and particularly survivors of sexual violence) and otherwise marginalized people, placing a trigger warning directly above the rest of a post makes no sense.
I'm increasingly seeing posts like this:
Does putting the trigger warning there actually do anything to deter a reaction on the part of someone who, say, has clown-related PTSD? Methinks if your reaction to reading about triggers is so severe that you need a trigger warning, placing the article directly below probably isn't the greatest idea.
I can see something like this:
That way, if someone is triggered by spiders, they can avoid the post altogether and read the one about clowns instead. But no one off LJ seems to do this. On the serious feminist blogs, all of the triggery posts are uncut.
Of course, I don't do trigger warnings at all, so maybe I'm missing something here. Anyone care to enlighten me?
I admit that this may be a failure to understand netiquette on my part, but it seems to me that if one's intent is to create a safe space for survivors of violence (and particularly survivors of sexual violence) and otherwise marginalized people, placing a trigger warning directly above the rest of a post makes no sense.
I'm increasingly seeing posts like this:
This blog post is about clowns
[TW for clowns]
So I saw a clown the other day. He had wandered off from the rest of the circus, and was sitting in an unmarked white van, just kind of leering at passersby. I was really freaked out. Who lets clowns leave the circus unsupervised these days, anyway?
Does putting the trigger warning there actually do anything to deter a reaction on the part of someone who, say, has clown-related PTSD? Methinks if your reaction to reading about triggers is so severe that you need a trigger warning, placing the article directly below probably isn't the greatest idea.
I can see something like this:
This post is about things that crawl and have too many legs
[TW for spiders]sphinctourist, how is your Daddy longlegs infestation going? Have you gotten rid of them yet?
Also, internet pedants, I am aware that opiliones aren't actually spiders but I didn't have any spider-related content to post about.
That way, if someone is triggered by spiders, they can avoid the post altogether and read the one about clowns instead. But no one off LJ seems to do this. On the serious feminist blogs, all of the triggery posts are uncut.
Of course, I don't do trigger warnings at all, so maybe I'm missing something here. Anyone care to enlighten me?
