Matt Smith and Ralph Fiennes have spoken out against trigger warnings in theatre, but they're totally missing the point, argues Kitty Chrisp.
Trigger warnings are a hot topic – but why are men so bothered about them? Another week, another white man up in arms about ‘trigger warnings.’ If Harry Potter actor Ralph Fiennes, 61, had his way, trigger warnings in theatre would be banned, as he told Laura Kuenssberg earlier this year. Just seven days later, The Crown actor Matt Smith, 41, took to the same BBC show and told the political journalist he agreed ‘utterly and completely’ with Fiennes.
Ralph Fiennes said he’d ban trigger warnings if he could These men should consider who trigger warnings are actually made for. In an audience of 100 women seeing, for example, a scene depicting rape, one in four, or 25 of them, will be watching having experienced sexual assault as an adult themselves. And this is where these men are wrong: trigger warnings are not there to stop the ‘woke’ audience being offended, or to censor the arts.
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