Would have expected Fluttershy to get triggered.

@noobiestbrony  
Not to mention, even the most useless of degrees like philosophy will still look better on a CV than just having a blank space after secondary education. Unless you plan on learning a trade, it’s always worth your while to get a degree in something.

@Brony_Conundrum  
Interesting. Thanks for explaining that, I had the idea that it was pretty much the same universally.

@noobiestbrony  
Over here, you basically have two options when it comes to getting a degree.
 
Option one: you get a specialised degree in engineering, science or whatever. This runs the risk of finding yourself in an oversaturated job market, but if you can get a job with that degree, you’re basically riding the money train. Given that I’m the sort of person whose eyes glaze over when it comes to advanced maths, that was never going to be an option for me.
 
Option two: you get a degree in one of the “lesser” subjects, like arts or humanities. You won’t be getting any six-figure salaries with it, but the idea is that it will show any potential employer that you’ve already demonstrated the discipline and dedication needed to get that degree in the first place. That’s the sort of thing that will impress any employer worth their salt.

@Brony_Conundrum  
Well, STEM is the most useful since you can get the best jobs in those fields. Classical arts (traditional, digital, musical etc) and humanities can also do you some good. The most useless ones are liberal arts and gender studies, which is basically the tumblrina/SJW starter package. Not sure how things work over in Europe, but in the US, when people go for degrees, they usually go for something in STEM, mostly science and technology since it create a wider range of career opportunities.

@noobiestbrony  
I live in Europe. Arts degrees are a bit more useful here. Not so much of the “STEM or bust” mentality you guys have in the States.

@Brony_Conundrum  
Why would you take liberal arts? Did you want to lose brain cells? XD Thank god the college I go to welcomes libertarian and conservative ideas just as much as liberal. And there’s no overprivileged whiny babies there to cause trouble.
 
Wait, no, that’s not fair. Babies are much more behaved than them.

@Brony_Conundrum  
>The world always need more hipsters  
Yeah, I’ll just stick to just Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts, thank you very much.

@Nattes Novgrel
 
You know, @Brony_Conundrum has a point.
 
Doesn’t apply to me though, I exclusively drink water from the sewer and cyanide contaminated Coca-Cola

@Nattes Novgrel  
Oh, don’t go dissing us liberal arts students. The world will always need more baristas – how else will you get your mocha lattes, huh? Have you thought about that?

@Brony_Conundrum  
Your fault for being a liberal arts students. :D

He was told something that burnt his ear!

@RollinRocker420  
You probably don’t go on tumblr, or at least that side of tumblr, but it’s used.
 
Also, there is the fact that “Trigger warning” is a thing now, even outside of tumblr, for fetish. And while MAYBE “rape” could be a decent trigger warning, stuff like “gore” “scat” or even “futa” is definitively not. It might be disgusting, but that’s not warranting a trigger warning at all.

@Background Pony #CCE5  
The price of over-saturation of people swearing up and down despite not providing any evidence outside of “It totes happened, for realsies.” How many times does someone have to cry wolf before you stop listening?

Want to try it more?.
 

I can’t help but hear a gun being cocked whenever I see the word “triggered”.

@RollinRocker420  
It’s easy to pretend something doesn’t exist if you avoid looking for it.

@Background Pony #CCE5  
But that’s the thing. I’ve never heard ‘triggered’ used as a means of shutting down a conversation at all, except by people either making a joke about something vaguely related to it, or by assholes being assholes.
 
Person: I didn’t care much for the Black Widow sub-plot in Age of Ultron. Hit a little too close to home for me.  
Asshole: lol, u triggered, bro? >:P
 
I’m not saying that people who used ‘triggered’ the way you described don’t exist. I’m saying that the way you hear some pundits describe it you’d think you couldn’t get away from it, yet you kind of have to really look for it.

@RollinRocker420  
In the context of PTSD, “trigger” refers to the traumatic event that started the disorder, not any later reminders of it. There’s rarely a good reason to say “triggered” or “triggering” when talking about your feelings.
 
Its status as a joke came from being misused by people who don’t suffer from PTSD at all. When this kind of “triggering” is taken seriously, it becomes a political tool to shut down conversations. Treating it as a joke takes away that power.

And traumatized.

You know what’s funny? I never hear the word ‘triggered’ from anyone except people who make jokes about it.

he’s no trigglypuff tho

It’s like a vibrating porcupine.

@runesorcerer  
As a liberal arts student, I feel thoroughly insulted.