SW and Vent are polar opposites in a lot of regards.

@TyphoidJerry: Why would you not be? You oppose liberalism? Why?

I'm not talking about classic liberalism which I'm generally fine with, I'm talking in the colloquial sense of the liberal/conservative dichotomy that defines American politics.

@TyphoidJerry: I usually refer to those as "#liberal" and "#conservative". I often add hashtags to words that have two meanings to differentiate between the legit and the bogus. Like, Malala Yousafzai is a feminist, but Chanty Binx is a #feminist. Or someone with PTSD might see images of war and become triggered, but a Tumblrina princess might hear the word "fat" and get #triggered.

Hah, I gotcha. The triggering thing pisses me off because it's an actual thing with meaning. It's been taken too far by pretty much everyone, feminists and antifeminists alike. As you say - it's about PTSD and other mental illness, not just being offended.

@TyphoidJerry: My sister has a slight problem with it. There's one thing that legitimately triggers her. She and I lived through civil war in Yemen as children, so you can expect we used to encounter dead people pretty often. But this one time, we were inside a post office that partially collapsed and pretty much everyone inside other than us was dead. There's these insects in Yemen called death hawks. They're harmless critters, really. They're decomposers that feed exclusively on dead matter. And when that post office caved in like that, swarms of death hawks started crawling around to scavenge for food. When they feed, they make this distinctive chirping sound, it sounds almost like whistling, and in a very distinctive four-note pattern. We were stuck in that building and the sound of those bugs was echoing everywhere. The chirping made by death hawks triggers my sister still. Hearing that noise makes her start acting loopy. We were watching a movie on the couch one night and there was a scene where those insects were heard in the background, and her eyes got freakishly dilated and she got really pale, and started looking all around the room and acting twitchy and weird like she was about to run away really fast.

FUCKING HELL