Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo...
by ihavedna on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @11:17AM
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A lot of these conversations about these concepts seems to me to be made by people who have 1) never been triggered emotionally in a situation, public or private, 2) have never actually participated in safe space discussions. Outsider perception/view.
The discussion is primarily about how people perceive the idea of a safe space over the actual experience of it. I don't think it's very useful, it just reinforces peoples' perceptions of others without actually engaging with those peoples and concepts/experiences directly.
Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo...
by marrs on Friday April 15, 2016 @01:20PM
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Everyone has been triggered emotionally in a situation. I can't believe that anyone can even get through childhood without experiencing an emotional trigger of some sort. I think we can all relate to this.
As for safe spaces, this is fine if we're talking about a room at university, but if we're talking about making a university itself a "safe space" then forget about it. It's a public place where people have to live their lives.
Could you explain further some examples of trigger warnings IRL that you've dealt with, because I assume there aren't widespread studies about this sort of thing and you seem to have a vastly different experience than mine. I'd like to understand it.