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The objective of this article is to understand feminist discourses as counterdiscourses that offer alternative discursive norms based on a particular language ethic. In order to grasp the ethical criteria of feminist speakers as these criteria appear in discourse, the article proposes an unprecedented relationship between ethics of care and discourse analysis. The values and activities connected to care in feminist discourses are approached via the analysis of a technodiscursive practice: the trigger warning. Born in feminist communities online at the end of the 1990s, this practice consists of offering content warnings to people suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, in particular victims of sexual violence. The author analyzes a corpus of metadiscourses on the topic of trigger warnings gathered from the US blog Shakesville and offers an analysis that connects the ethics of care and the theoretical framework put in place by Paveau (2013) for the moral analyses of discourses.