Thank you for saying something. A friend and I had this conversation a week ago and she said the exact same thing - that story should definitely come with a trigger warning, at the very least. As I was reading through it initially, I assumed it would be another one of those creepy stalker stories, and was in total shoc…

Yeah, they used to ask specifically for ghost stories. This year they asked for “terrifying and fucked up real-life stories” and I guess they did get what they asked for, but I was really looking for ghost stories.
 

On a women’s site we ought to be able to hold a reasonable blanket expectation of trigger warnings on graphic descriptions of— at the very fucking least— sexual violence. Idc whether it’s a comment on a post soliciting readers’ true scary stories or not. The onus is misplaced if you’re putting it on the triggered…

Asking for a trigger warning is not the same as asking for it to be completely omitted - other posters on this link add trigger warnings to their stories all the time and have for years. There was a lot of reading involved before we all got to the “that’s not my jam part”, you realize. Those of us who read it were…

Yes!! It was so upsetting and I kept having to go back to it to see the follow up comments so that I could NOT be upset at the lack of trigger warning. I feel awful for her and am so glad she found some catharsis from writing her post - the ensuing conversation that followed in the comments gave me pause and time to…

By this logic could you not have stopped reading and scrolled on past this comment thread when you first realized you might find it offensive? I’m told reading is interesting that way.

Yeah, I noped out of the scary stories after reading that one.

That was a really harsh read, and I’m a suburban white male. Can’t imagine how hard it must have hit people with different life experiences. Trigger warnings definitely sound necessary, especially since - I don’t know if it’s just me - there seems to be way more stories this year about real life horrors as opposed to…

I was just talking about this with my co-workers and told them I didn’t partake in trying to signal boost stories by reading the comment thread because I couldn’t deal with the lack of trigger warnings and how brutal the accounts were getting. I agree with your comment about the catharsis of telling survivor stories,…

Nvm, I found it. Thanks to you I knew to scan first. From key words and phrases alone I can tell it’s both a horrific and horrifically triggering story. :( all around.

I’m so sorry to bring this up again, but I’m wondering if you remember how the story starts, or what the OP’s avatar looked like or anything else that makes the comment easily identifiable?

Agreed. I was scrolling through, merrily reading the stories to my husband in bed as I do every year, because who doesn’t want to get freaked out before trying to fall asleep? I was reading that one, expecting a creepy ghost story, then got to the attack part. As soon as it was obvious what was happening husband said…

That one was super scary! I can't believe it didn't make the cut!

Agreed. I felt like I had been violently shoved after reading that. I understand needing to talk about your last trauma or wanting to share the worst thing that happened to you, but that was so horrific I had to physically step away from the computer. Awful situation, but very much not in the spirit of the post and…

Yeah, I struggled with that one too, felt like posting “hey this is supposed to be fun scary” but then worried about victim shaming.

Yeah. I have a lot of friends who look forward to these stories every year, and I ended up warning them to not read the comments in the original “tell us your creepy stories” post because that story would be horribly triggering for so many of them. I am deeply sympathetic to the poster, but I feel like “tell us your…

I agree. These stories are supposed to be fun scary, not triggering real world scary. I feel terrible the author was so violated but this was really not the place for her story.

The one where the girl went to visit her cousin in Salem? The way she told it! It was both scary as fuck and hilarious, and she included Snapchats she took complete with captions - shame that didn’t make it. 

Oh my gosh, this is definitely the scariest one I have read so far this year. I am reading at my desk at work, in the middle of a bright and sunny afternoon, and I jumped like a foot when someone opened a door down the hall outside my office (it had been really quiet so the noise scared the bejeezus out of me!) Lol.

i’m obsessing over the cat named Merkin