{"id":14355,"date":"2014-02-16T02:24:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T02:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/16\/psa-2\/"},"modified":"2014-02-16T02:24:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T02:24:24","slug":"psa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/16\/psa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

adam-ageless-wanderer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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blue-eyed-death-dealer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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adam-ageless-wanderer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\/\/ To play devil\u2019s advocate for a moment \u2026<\/p>\n

Do you have any idea how long a list I have of things that should be tagged lest they trigger one of my followers. Not only can I not keep up with it, I refuse to. My blog, you take what you get or you can leave. Harsh? Yeah but there it is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And seriously, I can name 10 of my followers who don\u2019t have triggers or if they do, know how to fucking cope.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When did we lose the ability to cope with things rather than insist people keep them far away from us so we don\u2019t have to deal?\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I was under the impression that the whole matter of a triggering subject was that an individual had difficulty learning to cope with that certain idea and therefore chose to avoid it instead.<\/p>\n

Sure it\u2019s your blog and you have a right to post whatever you want, but it\u2019s still a considerate thing to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also, I have no idea why you sound so angry. My post was not combative and was posted purely out of a standpoint of concern for others. I didn\u2019t realize the discussion of tagging posts was a topic of such serious debate and frustration. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My apologies. I\u2019m not angry in the slightest about it but rather speaking with decisive passion about the topic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I agree that a trigger is supposed to be something that is beyond a person\u2019s ability to deal with. However, it has become so exaggerated that quite simply anything with even the tiniest negative connotation is a trigger. \u00a0Do I believe the big things (porn & graphic violence) should be tagged? Yes, but not as a mean of not \u201ctriggering\u201d anyone but because I don\u2019t know who might be looking over the shoulders of my followers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A considerate thing to do you say? My friend, I think this trend of tagging any and all posts lest they \u201ctrigger\u201d someone is absurd and ultimately harmful. We don\u2019t learn to overcome those things that make us uncomfortable or raise negative feelings\/reactions by hiding from them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

adam-ageless-wanderer: blue-eyed-death-dealer: adam-ageless-wanderer: \/\/ To play devil\u2019s advocate for a moment \u2026 Do you have any idea how long a list I have of things that should be tagged lest they trigger one of my followers. Not only can I not keep up with it, I refuse to. My blog, you take what you get … Continue reading PSA<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[804],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}