Trigger Warnings

Hope this is not a db. Checked and did not find etc etc.

Article in NYT today on college students demanding a warning
from profs on possible disturbing and explicit material in books
and lectures.

An example used was The Great Gatsby.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/warning-the-literary-canon-could-make-students-squirm.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1&referrer=

 

Someone should have warned me that The Scarlet Letter triggered intense bouts of narcolepsy. Dimmesdale was dullsville.

 

I wonder how this board would look if the required threads got trigger warnings

 

NSFW is a bit of that

 

Posts by Vombatus are usually another red flag.

 

We have a regular Jebidiah Atkinson in our midst. Nice.

 

There is only one book ever that I wish I'd had some sort of prior warning, that being Ekaterina, where the protagonist is an avowed pedophile. I read it to the end, expecting it to not be "real" (real in the book's world, not ours) since the protagonist is a writer and I was told ahead of time it's an allegory for making a story ones' own.

My professor apologized afterwards, saying she'd forgotten how graphic the book actually was.

 

Glad to see this is not another gun-related thread.

 

The L.A. Times editorial page had a fantastic take down of trigger warnings a few weeks back:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trigger-warnings-20140331-story.html

 

Tom and Jerry receives a trigger warning: http://www.thewrap.com/amazon-prime-slaps-tom-and-jerry-with-racism-warning/

 

I'm guessing they'll do that with just about all of the cartoons we watched as kids.

Bugs Bunny, Popeye...

 

Every Redskin game.