Credit to stardust_rifle for helping me figure this out

[feotakahari]

There’s a weird tinge to the trigger warning discourse. It always feels like not just “I don’t have to give you trigger warnings,” but “you don’t really need trigger warnings” or even “you don’t deserve trigger warnings.” I just figured out what it’s like.

It’s like “people with disabilities don’t deserve to be able to beat this video game.” 

Comments

[yvannairie]

Agreed. It's... some form of conflating ability with worth.

[nodrog]

Or that "trigger" and "dislike" are two things.  In keeping with the mentality that invented the concept of “verbal assault” to deliberately conflate merely hearing what she doesn’t want said to physical assault on the feminist’s person (making both punishable by law!), so the legitimate term and concept of environmental triggering of PTSD has been redefined by the hugbox snowflakes (or “flakes” for short) to be anything they don’t like.

As Stephen Fry said, “… ‘I am offended by that.’  Well, so effing what.”

[lb_lee]

I'm kind of bemused how some folks seem to not realize that I play games to have fun. And if dying 500+ times doesn't get me through a chokepoint, I have no shame about using accessibility tools to progress.

Like, it's a game. For fun. Why drive myself crazy for bragging rights?