Agreed!

Agreed, and I think the author of this article agrees too - it looks like they haven't responded to her requests yet.

Ah, this may be news to you, but reducing human beings to their individual parts is a no-no.

Between this and your Fishandry gif, I am so following you!

This. Yes.

Also, thank you for that last part. I'm one of those women who freezes, I get scared/intimidated very easily by men (ugh, I know, I'm sorry). In my teen years/early adulthood, I thought this meant that I couldn't complain when I was harassed, because the usual response to my story would be 'well why didn't you tell…

I think I love you! *swoon*

I've never actually been able to find a good definition (beyond Wikipedia), I've tried to write about trigger warnings for academia and it seems to not be a very well documented/defined sort of thing.

Mmm, sorry. I crafted a big long response and erased it - I don't need the notification telling me that you responded, yet again, totally misunderstanding my point. Summary, in case you actually have an open mind on this, and don't want to just butt heads with a stranger online:

Oh dear. If you have to ask why we would bother respecting other people's triggers and traumas, we are never going to see eye to eye on this.

Awwww, poor guy. That was pre-my time here in Jez, thankfully.

Thank you!! This is so interesting.

What a great response!

Bleh. Why can't you both be right? Why does not being perfect mean that you can't criticize others? Do any of us follow this advice? I'm sure that I don't.

Hahahaaha

Yeah, but comment threads are notoriously filled with crazy people ;)

Interesting!

What's with the hostility?

According to my boyfriend (who frequently explains these sorts of subtle man/domination/testosterone dynamics to me), if you have a small penis when flaccid but large when erect, you're still ashamed in the locker room. Because no one would believe you if you told them otherwise, and trying to emphasize that too…

Disagree! While yeah, the apology would have been more detailed if he'd recognized why he shouldn't joke about rape, this definitely (to me, at least) didn't come across as an "I'm sorry if you were offended" fauxpology. He is sorry that he hurt people. Not "if" he hurt people. He is legitimately sorry, and their hurt…