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So the new trigger warnings preface has become the new foreword for me. This is the first one I have encountered. Iā€m totally anti trigger warning but I did go read this blog post which links to varying opinions. It was interesting. Check it out. https://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/2019/10/should-books-have-trigger-warnings...

Ruthiella I think a content warning for books is fine. They do it for TV shows, so why not books? 3y

CarolynM I think the points made in the article about PTSD and trauma are very good ones. I think the problem is that we are too ready to call pretty much any upset "trauma" and talk about PTSD when we really only mean bad memories (I'm guilty of this myself) For most of us the "triggers" are merely unpleasant, but for some they are genuinely damaging. (edited) 3y

Reggie @Ruthiella I think I‘m more upset that something was spoiled for me in a way. Now I‘m looking at every character in the book as a potential victim. Also, the world we live in is full of triggers. Whose merits the warnings. Which leads me to thinking this is a whole first world problem. This is not to discount people who have suffered trauma but maybe they need to talk to someone instead of have trigger warnings. Which also feels like a mean š‘‡š¸¼ 3y

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Reggie first world answer. I will concede trigger warnings if they just give me the ā€skip the next page if you‘re not interested in trigger warnings page.ā€¯ 3y

Reggie @CarolynM ā¯¤ļø¸ā¯¤ļø¸ā¯¤ļø¸ 3y

Centique I like your idea of a trigger warning page that you can ignore if you want. Because, I don‘t want to know what‘s coming in my book either. But I get that if you‘ve been through something horrific you don‘t want to have it brought up unexpectedly either. 3y

nightvalelibrarian Content warnings are extremely important, and it's good they're starting to appear books. Consumers are given full responsibility for controlling what they see without adequate information to help them do so, and for those of us with trauma and mental illness, that information is detrimental to our health. Content warnings aren't spoilers or to appease people who are easily "triggered" - they're a courtesy for readers to consume responsibly. (edited) 3y

LeahBergen I‘m with you on the idea of a skippable trigger warning page. I‘m the nasty old curmudgeon who gets inordinately pissed when I read blurbs that shout ā€you won‘t believe the twist at the endā€¯ or ā€what an unreliable narratorā€¯. It changes the whole reading experience. 3y

Reggie @LeahBergen lol yes that-ā€Oh you want a book with a twist you won‘t see coming?!!!!!ā€¯ Well I‘m kinda seeing it now. 3y

LeahBergen Right?? š¤£ 3y

dylanisreading I've been relieved to see content warnings for books lately. I know it saves a lot of readers from having panic attacks. The effects of PTSD are no joke. I think people who rail against content/trigger warnings in media come from positions of extreme privilege and/or misunderstand the effects of trauma. 3y

Suet624 I didn‘t realize agoraphobia could be a trigger. ??? 3y

Reggie @Suet624 I was kind of thinking maybe it was for those people who break into a home they think was vacant and get attacked by the person who they didn‘t know was agoraphobic and having survived they are afraid of agoraphobia? Seriously, I was wondering the same thing. (edited) 3y

Suet624 Hahaha. Love your explanation. 3y

Michael_Gee Interesting comment, Reggie! And brave of you for sharing your thoughts. š…As long as it is left up to the author‘s discretion whether or not to include, fine (also unlikely I will ever see one considering what I read). Any push towards requiring them or standardizing warnings I firmly agree with Carmen Maria Machado‘s tweet. 3y

Reggie @Michael_Gee Lol, you had to make me go look for it huh? I guess she quit Twitter but I found it. About being one step above censorship. So I was kinda pissed, apparently, when I read this page and then took it to work. One of my coworkers is 23. Last month he lost his dad due to an incident involving fire. After telling him about this whole thing he turned to me and said- you know since my dad passed, anytime a person dies in a movie it (edited) 3y

Reggie bothers me so much that I‘ll change the channel or I‘ll bring out my phone and try to ignore the scene if I‘m with my girlfriend but I would never expect the movie to provide a trigger warning saying someone dies in here. 3y

kspenmoll Thanks for the article & discussion Reggie- had not thought about trigger warnings- If it comes to that, I too vote for a separate trigger warning page I can skip depending on the book. Often I feel lime I get enough from blurbs & don‘t want to know more. 3y

Reggie @kspenmoll on one of the blogs the article post links to, they say the back of the book or the inside of the jacket book synopsis should be your trigger warning. Also, I went to go read the ratings for this book on Goodreads and there is one post that adds something like 9 different trigger warnings. It was nutso. One was toxic father, another was alcohol, one was ā€a small penis joke.ā€¯ All this makes me feel like people just need to go talk to 3y

Reggie someone. 3y

kspenmoll @Reggie Yikes! ā€ a small penis jokeā€¯??? For me books help work through issues/can be healing. I always felt less alone, validated when I read books that address my life experiences, trauma. Along with appropriate therapyā€¦you are such a thoughtful, reflective person Reggie. ā¯¤ļø¸ 3y

Lindy Excellent article. Thanks for linking to it. š‘¨ 3y

ValerieAndBooks Thought provoking post! And so was the article you linked to. The author of that mentions someone saying that Stephen King needed trigger warningsā€” come on, anyone should know that any horror story would be potentially trigger-inducing. I like the idea of a page mentioning that a TW page is on the next page with the option to skip it. But that said, a TW page is no guarantee that someone wouldn‘t be triggered anyway; a point already made. 3y

Reggie @ValerieAndBooks I was joking with a coworker that I can‘t wait to read a murder mystery and have there be a trigger warning for murder. 3y

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