Allan Hunter Here's what I posted as a reply (and apparently got me booted from the group): Yeesh. (from the article): "What Is Triggering?
Triggering occurs when any certain something (a “trigger”) causes a negative emotional response." (end quote)
NO. Emotions are not candy bonbons, as if the healthy ideal situation is that you only bite into yummy ones.
Emotions are cognitions. You can't evaluate your life without experiencing the full range of what your life is telling you.
And the world is full of people who get triggered by my failure to be a cisgendered normative guy who doesn't upend their assumptions and beliefs about life. And I consider it an important task of mine to trigger them as often as possible.
So... no, I don't delight in making people uncomfortabe, but no, people, y'all are not entitled to a life without triggering.
EDITED TO ADD: not by that silly definition at any rate
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Triggering occurs when any certain something (a “trigger”) causes a negative emotional response." (end quote)
NO. Emotions are not candy bonbons, as if the healthy ideal situation is that you only bite into yummy ones.
Emotions are cognitions. You can't evaluate your life without experiencing the full range of what your life is telling you.
And the world is full of people who get triggered by my failure to be a cisgendered normative guy who doesn't upend their assumptions and beliefs about life. And I consider it an important task of mine to trigger them as often as possible.
So... no, I don't delight in making people uncomfortabe, but no, people, y'all are not entitled to a life without triggering.
EDITED TO ADD: not by that silly definition at any rate