Posted on 05/21/2014 4:34:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Dear god, we are so doomed.
Good observations from Jonah. He’s a fun writer, some days.
Uhhh. . . Why?
"BARF ALERT!"
Anyone who has experienced suicide is unlikely to be reading the trigger warning...
I was wondering that, myself. Maybe it was a class about film, or maybe it was a women’s studies class.
A “trigger warning” seems to be rather like what I have heard described as a “dog whistle”, audible only to those who are sensitive to the very high-frequency sound.
I am not, and shall not be, responsible for other people’s sensitivities, particularly if I do not perceive that they have some undisclosed consciousness of that slight, or what is in their minds, a slur.
Now some things I KNOW are slurs and epithets, and if I use them, it is with the thought of inflicting insult. Perhaps, if people would not be so injured by a mere word, it would not be used nearly so often, especially after they have been particularly obnoxious themselves.
Name-calling may not be a very high form of discourse, but sometimes it is the only one remaining when reason and logic have fled the room. But rightly, when reason and logic have left, so perhaps should yourself.
‘Trigger warning’, well I learned a new term and it’s meaning.
Now I know that my profile page is...a trigger warning.
Indulgence warning.
That picture distresses and traumatizes me. A horse once bit my sister!
How do you experience colonialism?
I think I’m experiencing a trigger right now reading Little Bee—triggers of liberal novelists writing in an overly simplistic fashion about geopolitical events. But I could be wrong. Maybe Shell Oil kills, tortures and rapes people.
I have to be careful of triggers that remind me of Election Night 2012. Also Election Night 2008.
Seriously do you ever think you are the Bobby character in Dallas, and you will wake up one morning and these past few years will all have been a bad dream.
I thought of that too.
Was that before or after she was bitten by a moose?
“The Merchant of Venice,” for instance, would need the label “contains anti-Semitism.” This is my favorite Shakespeare play. I have the 1980 BBC version from Netflix. It’s a bit hard to watch. Shylock is a very compelling character. But so is Portia.
Social engineers are doing their best to create more and more defective people. Shame that.
I walked out of both A Clockwork Orange and Deliverance because of the rape scenes and I’ve never been abused. I wish that I could edit the rape out of the latest movie version of Les Miserables. I love the movie but want to be able to watch it with my 13 year old granddaughter.
I wish it was a bad dream. But, no matter how hard I pinch myself, I can't wake up.
But, a slight correction: it was Pam Ewing's dream, not Bobby's. The "dream" was concocted to explain the absence of the actor playing Bobby for an entire season.
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