All art is at once surface and symbol

I like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt when they talk about specific triggers (because things don't always make sense w/r/t what is a trigger and what isn't), but after having seen more than a couple of people define triggers as just "things that piss me off" or "ships that I don't think I should have to see in the tags"... argh. I feel like that's doing a disservice to real triggers, or devaluing them.