Yes, this is true. Some people do rather transparently play the "you are triggering me!" gambit.
You don't get to decide or question who is sincere about their triggers and disabilities. Doing that would get you kicked out of the Atheism+ forums rather quickly. Have you ever actually posted there, or read their "101" materials?
In addition, you're completely missing the point. Do you really think that a person has to have a "trigger" or some underlying disorder, to experience anxiety and stress when the in-crowd people you were hoping to find common cause with, including the ones in green, suddenly show up in rapid succession and take turns scorning you and berating you for some minor (if not purely imagined) error? When your attempts to fix it, to clarify what you meant, to clarify your point of view which they
surely must understand once you lay it more clearly, are further scorned and berated and called "notpology" and "splaining"? When they continue to deliberately misrepresent what you've said long after they've taken away your ability to respond at all? This will "trigger" just about any human being. Does "don't trigger me, I'm a person" really need to be spelled out in every post?
Apparently, the answer is yes, it does.
There are some members who are very demanding and very much want the board to be a safe place for themselves. If anything kills the board, it will be that. But I have very few complaints about the mods.
Yeah, I could believe that. Except that I wasn't born yesterday.
Reading the past few pages, though, it seems the biggest objection to A+ is still the damn elevator thing? Jeez.
If by "the damn elevator thing" you mean the demonstrable fact that Watson and her friends publicly and falsely accused people of misogyny and promotion of rape simply for disagreeing with her about how men and women should interact socially, and called for and carried out campaigns of ostracizing and shunning those people, and never recanted or apologized for doing so, then yes, that will be a difficult fact for the atheism plus movement to put behind them.
Continuing to pretend it didn't happen, pretending it doesn't matter that it happened, pretending the real reason it happened is due to widespread misogyny in the atheist and secularist communities, and pretending that the only issue involved is that a woman spoke out about her feelings about a minor elevator incident, have not helped and will not help, because these are now widely known to be lies.
Respectfully,
Myriad
BTW I couldn't use that smiley at A+ as TPTB have ordained some of the epileptic are triggered by the color red. Swear to Bokonon, I only wish I could make this kind of stuff up!
