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"Offended" would be my suggestion. "Triggered" is only really used in this sense as part of bad faith culture war discourse, mocking the idea of trigger warning
"Offended" would be my suggestion. "Triggered" is only really used in this sense as part of bad faith culture war discourse, mocking the idea of trigger warnings.
I've heard advocates of trigger warnings share their lived experience by talking about what "triggered" them, using that word specifically.
There's a big difference between describing one's own experience and labeling others.
The word is used in the context of PTSD. e.g. "hearing fireworks triggered flashbacks from the war"
More generally, a "trigger warning" is a "content advisory warning" by another name.
I don't think they mock the idea of triggers.
They leverage and weaponize the concept, which is arguably worse.