I posted a version of this back in 2021, but rather than edit that I'm reposting, as the link to the previous one is in several places online. This is an updated version to address a couple of points that always come up in relation to this subject. There are frequently posts on social media where a certain subset of people end up ranting about including content warnings in horror books. Content warnings are sometimes called trigger warnings, but given the way edgelords all over have co-opted the term "trigger" as some kind of insult, it's actually easier and more accurate to refer to what they actually are - warnings about the contents of any given book (or movie, etc.). From here on, I'm going to refer to them simply as CW.
Content warnings are not weakness
Content warnings are not weakness
Content warnings are not weakness
I posted a version of this back in 2021, but rather than edit that I'm reposting, as the link to the previous one is in several places online. This is an updated version to address a couple of points that always come up in relation to this subject. There are frequently posts on social media where a certain subset of people end up ranting about including content warnings in horror books. Content warnings are sometimes called trigger warnings, but given the way edgelords all over have co-opted the term "trigger" as some kind of insult, it's actually easier and more accurate to refer to what they actually are - warnings about the contents of any given book (or movie, etc.). From here on, I'm going to refer to them simply as CW.