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Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students

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Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm


Strange | 207263 hits | May 20 11:36 am | Posted by: N_Fiddledog
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Colleges across the country this spring have been wrestling with student requests for what are known as “trigger warnings,” explicit alerts that the material they are about to read or see in a classroom might upset them...

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue May 20, 2014 7:21 pm
    Oh noes! We can't let little junior get all uncomforatble! How can he have a normal life then?

  2. by avatar bootlegga
    Tue May 20, 2014 7:30 pm
    As bad as this sounds, I'll take warnings over book bannings anyday. At least with this system, students can choose to read/not read a literary work.

    If some people had their way, the only book we'd read would be the Bible.

  3. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Tue May 20, 2014 8:11 pm
    "bootlegga" said

    If some people had their way, the only book we'd read would be the Bible.


    No kidding. I hate those jerks at Amazon!



    :lol:

  4. by avatar Tyler_1
    Tue May 20, 2014 8:27 pm
    "BartSimpson" said

    If some people had their way, the only book we'd read would be the Bible.


    No kidding. I hate those jerks at Amazon!



    :lol:
    I have my kids old blackberry and I can read whatever I want for free, even in the dark. 8)
    Because Cats Rule. :D

  5. by avatar andyt
    Wed May 21, 2014 12:13 am
    "bootlegga" said
    As bad as this sounds, I'll take warnings over book bannings anyday. At least with this system, students can choose to read/not read a literary work.

    If some people had their way, the only book we'd read would be the Bible.


    Which could really trigger some people.

    Thing is, if these students are that delicate, don't let them take the course. If they need the course to pass the program, don't let them pass the program. At some point they're going to have to join the real world to actually put that program to use.

  6. by avatar Unsound
    Wed May 21, 2014 12:41 am
    Should the written policy come with a trigger warning in case any of the faculty have experienced trauma as a result of censorship in their past?

  7. by avatar andyt
    Wed May 21, 2014 12:49 am
    I don't think it's censorship. Just coddling taken to rediculous levels. Next students will sue because the prof reading a nursery rhyme triggers memories of their abuse or something. But all means add a warning to the prospectus that the course contains difficult material. But as I say, if the student can't handle it, don't make any allowances for them - they have to study a subject they can handle.

  8. by Thanos
    Wed May 21, 2014 4:24 am
    Gen Y/The Millenials are sure turning out to be a bunch of wimps and pussies. "I don't want to ever read/watch/hear anything that runs counter to my world-view! Respect my wishes at all times 'cause I'm delicate!". I'm wagering by the time I'm 70 I'll be greatly missing the extinct-by-then boomers because the millenials ended up being about a hundred times more obnoxious than the 1960's gen ever turned out to be. :|

  9. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Wed May 21, 2014 10:25 am
    The warnings, which have their ideological roots in feminist thought


    Enough said..... :roll:

  10. by avatar andyt
    Wed May 21, 2014 1:42 pm
    Warning: this course will be presented by a heteronormative phallocentric member of the patriarchy and may cause re-traumatization of any woman who's previously been in contact with such a member (no pun intended, feminism isn't funny).

  11. by avatar Zipperfish  Gold Member
    Wed May 21, 2014 10:20 pm
    I don't know, I ran into this same thing when I was in student government, back in the mid-14th century. We were deciding on a name for a pizza joint (because this is teh kind of thing that student governments work on) and somebody suggested Slice Me Nice. We then got an extended lecture on the implicit misogynism in that name. I didn't want to see any "implicit misogynism" so I suggested the much more explicit "Bend Over Bitch Pizza." (Joking--that would have been an expellable offence.)

    I could tell you guys stories easily the equal of these, and that was 20 years ago.

    Then we graduate, move on and the radicals either eventually accept reality or go to work for the education board.

  12. by avatar bootlegga
    Wed May 21, 2014 10:24 pm
    "Zipperfish" said
    I don't know, I ran into this same thing when I was in student government, back in the mid-14th century. We were deciding on a name for a pizza joint (because this is teh kind of thing that student governments work on) and somebody suggested Slice Me Nice. We then got an extended lecture on the implicit misogynism in that name. I didn't want to see any "implicit misogynism" so I suggested the much more explicit "Bend Over Bitch Pizza." (Joking--that would have been an expellable offence.)

    I could tell you guys stories easily the equal of these, and that was 20 years ago.

    Then we graduate, move on and the radicals either eventually accept reality or go to work for the education board.


    Maybe I'm naive, but when I hear Slice Me Nice, all I think of is this;



    :lol:

  13. by avatar N_Fiddledog
    Fri May 23, 2014 5:04 am
    Bill Whittle on Eloi, Morlocks and Trigger Warnings



  14. by Thanos
    Fri May 23, 2014 3:51 pm
    Help! Help! I'm being oppressed again!




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