Believe it or not, not everyone who’s asking you to tag something is doing it because that thing makes them uncomfortable or they don’t like it! Here are some perfectly reasonable things people would find triggering

Why can’t people just use the Tumblr Savior extension?

I'm sure they do. But you still have to do your part in tagging the posts in order for it to work.

Triggers: How they ACTUALLY work

Believe it or not, not everyone who’s asking you to tag something is doing it because that thing makes them uncomfortable or they don’t like it! Here are some perfectly reasonable things people would find triggering

Other examples that may not be related to PTSD but could still be considered triggers may include

While tumblr has made triggers seem like a joke, please keep in mind that they still exist and if someone with PTSD, epilepsy, migraines, or anything else that could have triggers, it’s respectful to listen to them if they ask you to tag something :)

*cough* Car/plane/train crashes apply too. :P This is good though. :)

Re: Antifeminists:

"I want to sit here and bask in my privilege as, probably, a white woman, and benefit off the thousands of other feminists and their success in gaining more rights for me while simultaneously doing nothing to further eliminate oppression"

Or

"I’m ignorant and don’t actually know what feminism is. I don’t know what oppression is or even misogyny. I’m probably 12 and I’m probably myself perpetuating girl on girl misogyny."

Take your pick

Ad Hominim, Strawman Argument, Appeal to Accomplishment, Appeal to Emotion (guilt) and Sweeping Generlization

and

Poisoning the Well, another Strawman Argument, Personal Attack, and still more Ad Hominim

Clearly you didn’t pick, you just went with all of the above. Perhaps you could make a logical point instead of this petty shaming-tactic bullshit?

Women in my country need feminism because PINK HELMETS! (Oh, the horror.)

It’s one thing if a sexual assault survivor doesn’t like jokes and yes, it’s good to be respectful of that and not make rape jokes in their presence. 

But if a survivor is not only okay with jokes but uses them as a coping mechanism, you are in no position to tell them how to deal with their trauma.

You’d think feminists would be against survivor policing. Hell, I think telling rape survivors how to deal with their trauma is wrong BECAUSE I’m a feminist. 

Yet I’m seeing all of these feminists, some who may not even BE survivors, attacking and bullying women because they don’t deal with their experience the way they think they should. 

Look, as long as someone isn’t self-harming, attempting suicide, or doing anything self-destructive as a coping mechanism, it is none of your goddamn business how they choose to deal with it.

Ihatecispeoplebecause’s Faq (via smallstrawhat)

Have u ever breathed in and out? Contributing to transphobia

(via fuck-social-justice-blogs)

Sigh…yeah, but the first and third ones do apply to me, or at least they have in the past. I'll admit, the first one still confuses me a bit, And the third-to-last one could probably apply too.

I think this is legit. It doesn't hurt to be aware of these things.

(via goldenphoenixgirl)

Not sure if I’ve reblogged this before but it always bears repeating.

(via thebicker)

Except the too is necessary when people continously treat rape like a fucking gendered issue. This is like saying that reminding people women can be gay and brutalized too takes away from gay men’s safe spaces. Fuck off with this “you’re just using male victims!!!!” bullshit just because I had the audacity to criticize you ignoring victims.

(via flyrh-the-penguin)

Whenever I read posts on how girls being told by their parents to be safe on the streets, I have no idea why it’s even a feminist issue. Even as a 25 year old male, my mum constantly interrogates me on where I’m going out exactly, which friends I’m meeting, what time I’m coming back and always phones me late at night. If I don’t call for whatever reason (even if my batteries are dead), I get a real scolding at. I always have arguments with my mum about wanting to go to the gym late at night where she forbids me from going. It’s more of a cultural issue than it is a gendered issue where people tend to have parents who are overprotective, control freaks and clingy. 

It’s perfectly okay to not want to be a social justice activist.

I mean, out of basic human compassion and kindness, you should care about other people’s feelings, and have awareness of the injustices that may be happening, while doing what you can to help the affected.

But if you don’t want to rally, to pontificate, to reblog sj stuff, you don’t have to, it’s ok, your choice should be respected. To be forced, guilted, or pressured into joining a movement shouldn’t ever happen, and kinda defeats the purpose of being a voluntary ally that wants change.

Expect people to respect causes that promote social equality and justice, but never think less of someone that chooses not to be vocal about their support.

~King Endymion

This is really reassuring. Thank you.

So despite being just as critical of the Men’s Rights movement as I am of feminism, I would still consider myself an MRA as well as a feminist. 

However, I’m still pretty new to the men’s rights thing and I’ve heard that there were problems with intersectionality and being mostly focused on white middle class American men. This, interestingly enough, is a huge problem with feminism and a big reason why I’m very critical.

Would you guys say that MRAs have this same problem? 

I don’t really have a whole lot of experience with MRAs, but from what little I’ve seen one of the main problems in the movement is misogyny. There seems to be a tendency to blame men’s problems (which are the result of societal expectations that are enforced by both men and women) exclusively on women, and feminists in particular. Now, I think that feminists definitely need to be called out for dismissing and mocking men’s issues, but this issues have been around longer than feminism.

There are also cases of MRAs being extremely dismissive towards female victims of abuse. Paul Elam, the founder of A Voice For Men, has allegedly said quite a few things that sound very much like rape apologism. I don’t know a whole lot on the issue, but apparently he once said that if he were ever on a jury for a man accused of raping a women, he would vote “not guilty” whether he believed the man was truly innocent or not. His rational being that too many men have had their lives destroyed by false rape convictions. I have also head that Elam has several occasions advocated violence against women who he believes were antagonizing their partners.

There also seems to be a tendency for MRAs to enforce the same gender norms that they should be fighting against. Using homophobic slurs and telling people to “man up” for failing to be masculine enough seem to be common.

Again, I don’t think that this applies to all MRAs. I have come into contact with a a few who are very reasonable and in no way advocate violence or misogyny. I think it is a flawed movement that is in need of heavy criticism, but it’s unfairly portrayed as a terrorist group (when in reality MRAs are not violent enough to be terrorists and not organized enough to be a group).

There’s a really blatant double standard, since pretty much every problematic thing that MRAs have done, feminists have done as well. And yet feminism is seen as infallible while the MRM is demonized.

I think the worst thing about how MRAs are demonized is that it essentially silences any discussion about issues like male abuse/rape and male genital mutilation. I have seen people, when presented with every possible reason why circumcision is wrong, dismiss the issue because “well, MRAs are against circumcision, and they’re always wrong.”

What this means then is that men’s problems are only acceptable for discussion when discussed by feminists, using a feminist perspective. A perspective which all too often denies the significance or existence of these issues.

Wow, that was all really informative. Thanks!

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