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Right, but this is saying trigger warnings re-victimize the party by placing the event on a pedestal and assuming fragility. My daughter got stung by a bee on
by ericb 5y ago
Right, but this is saying trigger warnings re-victimize the party by placing the event on a pedestal and assuming fragility.
My daughter got stung by a bee on her eye. For quite a while, she didn't want to go outside if there was any bee, anywhere, which there usually is. I could decide that for the rest of her life, bees are triggering, and help her avoid them and lead her with my expectation that as a bee-victim, she of course would never want to leave the house again. Or I could do what I did, and not make a big deal of bees and not warn her every summer day that she might not want to go outside because there's a bee in the yard.
I fully acknowledge that there are things far far worse than bees, however I think the same principles apply. If you look at therapeutic psychological treatment for phobias--the treatment is exposure, and desensitization, not avoidance and magnification. Is it fair to assume victims want to wear a scarlet V? Or to promote the implicit message that avoidance is the correct response to trauma?