> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Trigger Warning: This Post Contains Several Trigger Warnings - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/trigger-warning-this-post-contains-several-trigger-warnings/ - Published: 2015-06-30T00:50:33.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:47:58.000Z - Description: Culture in the 21st century is a minefield of trigger warnings, a nebulous type of cautionary note that is deployed as a way to warn people about the content they're about to encounter. - Author: Hrag Vartanian - Tags: Opinion, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2) ![(via @joecarter, h/t Payam Sharifi)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/06/kant-critiques-trigger-warning-lede.jpg) (via @joecarter, h/t Payam Sharifi) Culture in the 21st century is a minefield of trigger warnings, a nebulous type of cautionary note that is deployed as a way to warn people about the content they’re about to encounter. *\[Trigger warning: this post contains excessive uses of the term “trigger warning.”\]* There is no consensus on what constitutes a trigger warning. Some people feel adamant that they should exist; I personally think they are needed only in extreme cases. But the one I’ve posted above, though not explicitly labeled a trigger warning, is probably the most peculiar one I’ve encountered. I wonder how many parents are helping their kids read 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant’s *The Critique of Pure Reason*? Overuse of “trigger warning” has become so pervasive that the term is prefaced by its very own trigger warning over at the [Everyday Feminism](http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/06/guide-to-triggering/?ref=hyperallergic.com) blog (image is theirs): [![Screen Shot 2015-06-29 at 3.57.07 PM](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/06/screen-shot-2015-06-29-at-3-57-07-pm.png)](http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/06/guide-to-triggering/?ref=hyperallergic.com)