Thanks for your welcoming words, Kathy. Where history exists, so does subtext others might not perceive. Likewise where previous experience in a particular milieu exists, the ability to read between the lines becomes exceptionally keen. Sometimes painfully so.

Agreed, we do have the right to our views, but we do not have the right to deliberately provoke others where we ought to know better. If nothing so doing came intentionally, fair enough, but the delineation of boundaries still stands. We don't have a magick wand to wave and say "triggers, stop working, be gone!" so best to simply state it where it arises and leave it at that, because if people did not know before, they will now, and there will therefore be no excuse for any future breach or violation.

Respect needs to be a TWO way street -- or else it cannot survive at all.