TRIGGER WARNINGS Trigger Me.

Trigger warnings began on feminist blogs as a way of warning readers that the content contained material about domestic violence or rape or even disordered eating. . . . Then trigger warnings spread. And spread. A virus of warnings infected blogs, public art, and now classrooms.

Some students and professors argue that nearly everything should come with a trigger warning. Mrs. Dalloway? Trigger warning: suicidal tendencies. The Great Gatsby? Trigger warning: suicide, domestic abuse, graphic violence. Think I’m making this up? I’m not. Those warnings come from a student op-ed in Rutgers’s The Daily Targum.

Annoying, this “trigger warning” talk. That’s one way of looking at it. Here’s another: “Talk about a goldmine of tactical intelligence on the leftist cognitive model.”

Imagine, preparing for a Presidential Debate, with a feminist-compiled list of innocuous themes which perfectly disable liberal feminist brains, to the point that many feminists actually black out just from hearing these ideas. Now imagine that the Democratic Presidential Nominee opposite you in the debate is Hillary Clinton, who is herself a feminist with exactly that type of cognitive model. That is dog-whistle heaven.

Bring on the trigger warnings. I’ll be taking notes.