Trigger Warnings

[Boom_70]

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=

 

[LongTimeListener]

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

 

[Mystery Meat II]

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

 

[Boom_70]

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

NSFW is a bit of that

 

[Vombatus]

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.

 

[BadgerBeer]

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

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

 

[DeskMonkey1]

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.

 

[Mark2010]

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

 

[User 4332]

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

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

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

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

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...

 

[poindexter]

Every Redskin game.

 

[playthrough]

I put Stephen King books under my bed as a kid after reading and having nightmares. NO ONE TOLD ME THEY WERE SCARY.

 

[HanSenSE]

I thought this thread would be about Roy Rogers' horse.

 

[Vombatus]

I thought it would be about migraines.

 

[joe]

I thought it would be about Trigger having a migraine.

 

[Vombatus]

I also thought it might be about horse meat.

 

[Stoney]

So youth in the era of instant anytime online porn can't handle the Great Gatsby?