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by PhasmaFelis 3590 days ago
You work together to find a reasonable balance between accommodating the most common and severe trauma triggers without shutting down general discussion.

For example, there are people who were raped by a man with a deep voice and are triggered by men with deep voices. That's a really shitty situation to be in, but it's unreasonably onerous to expect deep-voiced men to warn everyone in the vicinity (perhaps with a sign) before speaking, especially since there are very few people with that particular trigger. Asking people to give a warning before they intend to discuss rape in detail is not onerous, and it helps a rather larger number of people.

Edit: I'd really like to know why this is getting downvoted.