I figure most of the people who come to this blog find out about it though my dad, Jordan Peterson. I’m happy about that, I don’t care how people get here, I just want them to know what kind of problems their diet is potentially causing. I generally avoid most of my dads “controversy” because I honestly think there are more important things for me to focus on. Mainly health. I also believe that mental illness accounts for a lot of the political problems we’re having now. People get anxious and depressed and look for outward sources of their inner pain. I believe the source is diet, Dad also believes it’s diet, but focuses on other sources (personality, lying, etc.)
Today in a Facebook group I’m in (that I normally really like), something came up that bothered me enough I couldn’t ignore it.
When I was incredibly depressed, just beginning university, I used to be in Facebook arguments all the time. When the depression went away, I stopped caring. This Facebook post this morning was too much though, I’ve ignored a lot of annoying things in the group because it’s been helpful as a soon to be mom.
Just so you can understand the following: according to a Google search:
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a statement at the start of a piece of writing, video, etc., alerting the reader or viewer to the fact that it contains potentially distressing material (often used to introduce a description of such content).“there probably should be a trigger warning for people dealing with grief”
Here are the posts:
I am no longer part of that group. I left. Obviously it was time for the annual Facebook cleansing. But I just wanted to write a quick post urging people to say something when something like this comes up. Politely disagree, or call out the stupidity so that other people know that not everyone thinks this way. I’ve been avoiding it because I don’t particularly like conflict (although I’m not as averse to it as probably the average person). But this is ridiculous.
Way to stand up for common sense! These poor people are so deluded with their constant pearl clutching over basic life events. And even worse, soon to be raising children and teaching them this insanity.
I’m glad it’s not just me that thinks lots of people online are a bit….well…crazy.
I do appreciate you’re thoughts on diet/mental health – as someone with a fairly long history of depression myself it’s good to hear about your experiences and what has/hasn’t worked.
Anyway – all the best for the birth!
If that woman gets emotionally distressed by reading words on the internet not preceded by a trigger warning, then she should delete Facebook for her own well-being and get some serious help. How can she handle the challenges of real life if she can’t handle reading or talking about food? If she was genuinely that fragile a trigger warning wouldn’t do much good for her anyway. They’re just virtue signalling and trying to act like they’re morally superior, but this is just another method people use to put themselves above others.
And what’s so evil about financial privilege?? Presumably you earned it somehow, but they can’t handle hearing about someone’s money why? Because it makes them or others envious and resentful? It’s so immature! And condescending that they think everyone else is just as fragile and resentful as they are, and so everyone’s language must be policed to accommodate their dogmatic prejudices and to avoid offending the most easily offended. I can understand why you left, that would be so incredibly frustrating to be talked down to that way!
I’ve been poor. Technically I’m still poor now. What gets me about financial privilege is it turns people into gigantic trolls. First off they don’t appreciate all the help they got in order to be where they are–and don’t say no one helped you, that’s a lie and it’s rude to the people who did help. I’m surprised I don’t see more of those calling out the trolls, actually. “Oh yeah? What about that time I let you live with me rent-free for a year while you were in school?” That kind of thing. ANYWAY. Or when someone uses their moneyed status to lord it over people with less. I see that everywhere, I see a total lack of consideration for people less well off where you think all you have to do is give your s?!tty old clothes to Goodwill and pay a dime more in taxes every month and you’ve “done a lot” for the poor. Okay. It just gets tiresome. THAT SAID. I’m not gonna sit here being triggered by someone doing reno work on their bathroom. Actually I’m gonna enjoy it because I love renovation before & afters. If I feel any distress at all it’ll be “wow I wish I were doing better right now so I could do something like this, my bathroom’s a mess.” But that’s 99.999% likely not the fault of the person posting tile photos on Facebook. You know? And I realize that. (Some of it’s my fault, some of it’s other people’s faults. It’s 100% my responsibility no matter whose fault it is. It would be nice if we’d help one another out more, but I know this world is full of scumbags who got theirs so screw you. It is what it is.)
I can’t be the only poor person who feels this way. So don’t let the narcissistic activists tell you otherwise. None of us elected them to speak for us.
I feel the same way for people telling me not to use the words crippled (etc.) I generally let them know that putting a nice word on being crippled doesn’t make it any nicer. Coming from someone who had long periods of not being able to walk…
I work in the charity sector, in a big, corporate type organisation. My boss recently asked me if it’s still “okay” to call it “youth work” because people might be offended to be defined as youths.
Actually, people feel disgust, pity and fear when they see a crippled person, so they cover it up with a nice word and force others to do the same. Maybe the word has become a potential slur, but I would say the cause of that is the hateful usage of the word (and the reasons for that usage), and you have to confront that directly rather than mess with language.
Trigger warnings for posts about food? People need to toughen up a bit and realise the content of the world can’t and shouldn’t be tailored to their neuroses. Good on you Mikhalia for pointing it out. Best of luck on your journey to health, and with the renovations!
What. The Actual. F#&@? My brain hurts.
Funny how the trigger warning never seems to stop the people that the content supposedly “triggers” from reading and posting in the thread. Also interesting how her “hundreds of dollars” of therapy wasn’t preceded by a disclaimer about her financial privilege.
For a long time I used to think “oh good, you have the awareness to recognize you’re being triggered”. As that’s kind of the point of therapy, you reflect on why you had a crazy emotional reaction to something relatively benign and trace it back to your problem. I used to think “good for you.” But then I realized it’s not about cultivating personal awareness of what triggers you and working through it, but demanding that others anticipate (impossibly) and warn you about what in the world could possibly cause irrational triggers, placing the responsibility on others. Not terribly productive for working through emotional issues, in my opinion.
I also have this inkling that whoever is most triggered by conversations about wheat probably needs to take it out of their diet more than anyone else. (perhaps ditto for floor tiles: if you’re triggered by home renovation threads, maybe it’s time for one? )
HA so true! That wheat comment is exactly what I was thinking.
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