I am mentally ill and have various problems with triggers. And not to say that you are wrong and cannot think the way you do, I totally understand your rage and why you are upset.

But... I personally am not at all upset about the people who make jokes about trigger warnings-- half because I have a pretty thick skin (and thus don't blame you at all for feeling the way you do, I realize other people have varying degrees of emotional response to these kind of jokes), and half because they're kinda right. I'm upset about the people who have made it such a trivial thing, people who have appropriated the word for attention or for trying to fit in with their online cliques of special snowflakes. People who misuse the word 'trigger' to mean something that mildly upsets them, such as requesting a trigger warning for someone disliking a tv show they like. This is stuff I have actually seen.

The jokes aren't made up from nothing and it infuriates me. It absolutely infuriates me that these people use it as a fucking pity card, or some kind of point of pride. Because it's not.

My fiance's brother is a veteran. He killed a man-- the man shot his buddy and he shot and killed that man. His friend didn't make it after that. He can't watch certain movies because of it, he has to be careful when he is shooting the shit with his friends. Little things, little insignificant things, remind him of what happened. I don't know the specifics. I understand that people can have such weird, seemingly innocent triggers. Some as severe as certain colours or patterns. I get that. But it's much rarer to have these extremely specific, seemingly-benign triggers in real life as it seems to be on the internet.

These people ruined it and they're my real enemy. They may not have been the flames, but they were the source of the fire.

Sorry that I hijacked your rant. And again, I understand. It's frustrating. I don't want to be seen as one of 'those' people when I need to avoid certain things. I'm just an average Joe, really, beyond the few things I need to avoid.