Today is the day of the Twitter tantrum known as #TheTriggering, a contrived hashtag in which the Internet’s biggest jerks have decided to post crap that is slightly more jerky than the crap they usually post.
I’ve been poking around in the hashtag for a couple of hours and I have to say it’s pretty underwhelming. There’s a great deal of highly predictable racism, transphobia, and misogyny. There are anime-avatarred fat shamers, Anita Sarkeesian haters pitching fits, Trump fans joking about the Holocaust, and even a few Men’s Rights activists. The hashtag reeks of undeserved self-satisfaction.
The only genuinely funny or original Tweets in the hashtag come from the feminists and other so-called Social Justice Warriors who’ve crashed the party with Tweets intended to trigger the triggerers.
And yet I have somehow managed to find a few lessons in all of this. And so, without further ado, here are The Top Ten Things I’ve Learned from the Twitter Tantrum that is #TheTriggering (So Far).
1) Fat haters don’t proofread their tweets very carefully:
https://twitter.com/FMLItSux/status/707548031994957824
https://twitter.com/DidymusTam/status/707546927395692544
2) And neither do racists:
https://twitter.com/goysheckles/status/707580339028369409
3) Blah blah blah blah blah blah vaginas
https://twitter.com/LeifLJones/status/707529181576364032
https://twitter.com/FuckTwatter001/status/707464746640007170
https://twitter.com/defunked/status/707579493955846144
4) Blah blah blah blah blah blah cucks
https://twitter.com/HuemanGarbage/status/707621864865042432
Feminism is trying to turn all straight white males into faggots, trans and cucks #TheTriggering
— MR MARMITE (@Mr_Marmite247) March 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/henrybrrtt/status/707424084833882112
Hitler was misunderstood, Trump is misunderstood, all you liberal cucks are latinophobes, nver talk about moving to Mexico #thetriggering
— Vali-Norse God of Revenge (@footbrawler) March 9, 2016
5) There’s a weird overlap between #TheTriggering participants and dudes who almost certainly did very poorly on the analogies questions on the SAT
https://twitter.com/CreggehBroon/status/707580834627362817
6) There’s also a weird overlap between Trump supporters, castration advocates, revenge porn lovers, and haters of Marilyn Monroe. That overlap calls himself “Riv.”
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707445270091571202
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707610635513761794
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707607734406017026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707548913000128513
7) Words can’t hurt you …
#thetriggering if you are hurt by words you should not be not the Internet.
— Mordred Pendragon (@M0rdredPendrag0) March 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/HEWHiGHROLLER/status/707527496674189312
8) Except when they can
https://twitter.com/willieromeburns/status/707580935693213696
9) Bernie Sanders may be a slackjawed grocery-store farter
https://twitter.com/jesslutty/status/707442394699079680
10) It’s somehow unfair for the media to point out offensive tweets in a hashtag devoted to posting offensive tweets
The media will ignore the 99.99% of smart #TheTriggering tweets and write about the tiny fraction of ones that are actually racist.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 9, 2016
I imagine I will learn more lessons from #TheTriggering before the day is done.
Breast milk as a commodity. There is, or was, a brand of breast milk ice cream. Much to the fascination of the Daily [Hate] Mail:
Would YOU eat ice-cream made from breast milk? Campaigner joins forces with dessert makers to create controversial treat just in time for the royal birth
However, can’t see parents going into cafes and ordering up a bottle of house breast milk, with a shot of espresso and a double frappuccino, somehow. It’s a really bad analogy that probably reveals just how little the writer actually understands about the whole process of raising and looking after a child.
Then there’s breast milk lollipops
If it were a restaurant that sold breast milk and you brought in your own breast milk, I might indeed agree that you were being pretty rude and they might reasonably have a no-outside-breast-milk policy.
If.
Don’t think there are any such restaurants. Going in in with a thermos of your own coffee and a pack of your own sandwiches. That would be rude. Feeding your own child with your own milk. That’s nature.
Even if it was formula. That child needs to be fed. Well within the realm of possibility to ask for the bottle to be warmed up.
Didn’t it occur to any of these people that attaching “TheTriggering” to any of these statements is an instant clue for women reading it that they are purposefully being badgered, so kind of counterproductive…They did better “triggering us” when it wasn’t obviously intentional, and it this point, we are all so clued in to the whole thing that even if they didn’t attach that hashtag, most of us just sit back and giggle at their ridiculousness. I actually just decided that if behaving and thinking the way they do is the best they can do in life, then feeling sorry for them is the best I can do back. Pathetic souls….
Looking after the health and welfare of a baby is not like going into even quite an up-market establishment, to grab a double espresso and a bagel with cream cheese.
Baby’s are surprisingly fragile and special rules apply when it comes to looking after them.
That’s also why you should never get between a mother cow and her young calf.
@Sara
#TheFriggering tag is probably more to signal to fellow #friggerati just how smart they all are. Otherwise, they might not recognize each other’s witty twittery bon mots and oh-so shocking comments.
4channers, you are baffling.
Melania Trump is 45 years old.
Didn’t she “hit the wall” 15 to 20 years ago?!
@sandiseattle
Bye! 🙂
This is me, weeping for the loss of you.
http://r.hswstatic.com/u_0/w_480/gif/crocodile-tears-1200×800.jpg
Bina, you seem so sincere in your sorrow.
Alas, we shall never, ever recover. Let me go prepare to play a sad melody to show our bereavement at the loss.
My instrument will be this:
http://www.inspirefusion.com/media/2012/worlds_smallest_violin2.jpg
Maybe they thought Ivanka Trump would be Trump’s first lady? To be fair, Trump has made the same mistake.
Oh woe is me, how shall I ever recover from these poorly written “triggers” from men who I don’t care about and whose tweets expose a lack of basic understanding of feminism and life in general and reek of pathetic sad sacking. How shall I ever continue about my day? Alas and alack!
Gadzooks! Could it be…the world’s smallest contrabass from Contrapangloss?
Meanwhile, for lack of a more appropriate hanger to dangle this from, looky what I found:
http://41.media.tumblr.com/286c1d151e28f5aec73ccadc63148739/tumblr_mgilltKnPS1rluoaco1_1280.jpg
It seems applicable to all threads concerning the Tiggering.
PS: Pretty sure Descartes did NOT actually say that, but I’m snickering anyway.
Oh bloody hell its not like they’re getting much attention with this nonsense, MSM probably assumes (if they notice at all) it’s just an especially emotional and moody day for these twits.
Sad, untriggering, small and petty, they all are.
The trolls that popped in just weren’t that interesting. And what is the point of a single post simply saying you’re never reading again and leaving? Do they have a fantasy that David’s going to read it, burst into tears at the thought that douchetroll number 38403 (who totally would have been a loyal fan and jumped to the side of feminists if the the site was just an undefined smidge less “social justice warriory”) won’t be reading anymore? Cause they’re obviously the intended audience.
“Smart #TheTriggering tweets”
All the lolz.
I thought the punchline was going to be “you should hide it under your coat”. That would at least have made some sense.
Aristotle said some interesting things about the Spartans. Apparently the fall of Sparta was entirely down to the male citizens falling under the sway of their wives, who just wanted to lie around all day and eat bonbons, or something.
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/aristotle-spartanwomen.asp
Aristotle: MRA!
“Words cant hurt you, it’s your choice if you are childish enough to let them bother you”
-Say the same people who are clearly bothered by the word “trigger”
Is there a hashtag SniggeringAtTheTriggering?
Hello.
Yeah, and grammar too, as you do not seem to let it bother you…
Have a nice day.
To be fair, this is probably true. Then again, it’s fairly easy to ignore 100% of nothing.
idk if anyone noticed (or cares), but the girl in @FuckTwatter001’s profile pic is Mariya Babko, aka Masha, a famous child porn actress. similarly @TheConfused007 has pedobear in his avatar… wonder if this is just a coincidence, or is Trump popular with cp fans?
@torrocks
Yeah, I noticed that too but was kinda afraid to point it out. I’m sure using profile pics like that is just their attempt to be the absolute edgiest, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually do watch that stuff just to be even edgier than the edgiest of the edge, cause that’s totally not sad and pathetic at all.