If Gad wants a bigger audience, he needs to get Strunk & White out and use simpler terms.

"Malala was fighting for the rights of girls to be educated in a harsh environment wherein they face endemic actual violence. Contrast their reality with that of university students on North American campuses that require protection from discussions of violence in safe classroom settings."

needs to be something like

"Malala was fighting for the rights of girls to be educated where doing so means death, while university students here require protection from merely talking about violence."

I know Gad's proper, but I'm pretty sure Elmore wouldn't say it that way.

Repeat after me: "No diagnosis of mental illness which includes triggers, I do not get the consideration of trigger warning."

I was looking for the stuffed tigers?

And it seems like for more and more folks, life is a 'trigger' for their poor mental 'stability'.

I don't have that problem. Most everything just pisses me off. Or, as it's been said before... the older I get, the more everyone can just kiss my ass.

I thought a Trigger warning was a good thing. It was when Roy Rogers' horse put his ears up.

Along these lines of over-sensitivity.. I just got in trouble at work for daring to call out a colleague that was doing something stupid. Newer guy that was continually creating new configuration... "things" (to keep it short). Dozen of them in the last few weeks, with idiotic and semi-random names that showed the guy had no clue how our whole configuration management system works. I'd already sent him a much shorter email a couple weeks ago trying to steer him in the right direction, but it was clear he still has no idea how all our stuff works together.

So I finally sent out the massively edited and filtered version of "WTF are you doing?" Email... but I still have to "have a chat about the tone and wide audience of the email" with my manager now. *sigh* Silly me, I thought we were all adults and that, as our managers regularly say, we should give honest feedback. Apparently only when it's positive. Don't get me started on how we're supposed to interact with employees in certain international offices who barely do any work, because of "cultural" reasons. I guess we don't pay them to actually do their jobs.

The sad thing is, I used the email to kick start a larger conversation that we are sorely lacking (and have been for a long time) in doing both real training for new hires, and for actually making sure newer people understand the systems they're working on before we give them the privileges to do these things that can have an impact across the entire production environment. It's plainly obvious to me that he never really reached out for any help from anyone either. Even with a lack of info/training, if you don't ask for help... who's fault is it really?

Even more fun, the person I was calling out, actually replied saying he had no idea that running this command and creating these objects did what it did across the environment (making my point for me). I've gotten a couple replies (only privately, of course) from a few others that have been around for a long time thanking me for both calling out this guy, and for starting said larger conversation about lacking the training and good documentation.

In the end I might have to "apologize" (under protest) and it won't affect my job, but the constant two faced-ness of things and having to walk on egg shells is really starting to get to me.