It's just a really crass way to dismiss someone when they object to something. Tumblr has an audience that does take it too far, but no one ever comes up with a pithy joke for redditors being equally awful in different ways (go look at r/great apes, r/ coon town, the Ellen Pao fiasco, shit just look at comments in the front page).

In addition to this, triggers are a very real thing for people who have PTSD, which isn't solely linked to veterans of war. People who have been physically assaulted, raped, who had abusive traumatic childhoods, they have "triggers." That's why tumblr, as a whole, in an effort to be accommodating, tags posts with "blood," "gore," etc. So people can filter their experience to exclude things that trigger their PTSD, or make them really uncomfortable. The same way that we tag things "NSFW" or "NSFL."

Reddit though, just throws the joke around whenever someone says "hey this is sexist / racist / whatever ". It's making a mockery of a desire to be accommodating. Reddit doesn't care about being accommodating. Reddit thinks it has a right to the naked pictures stolen from Jennifer Lawrence and scoffs when she says it's a huge violation for her, akin to sexual assault (which is defined as "sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the victim "). Are there"social justice warriors " that do insanely dumb things and take shit way too far? Yes. I'm going to stop this comment here because I don't even know what I'm trying to say anymore, I'm just so exhausted with reddits vileness, which has ramped up in the past year or so. Anyway, triggered! Is a dumb joke and it reflects poorly on anyone who uses it. Wow, this is a rant. I'll probably clean this up later or something.