Now Thomas Hardy gets a trigger warning: Warwick university students are told 'Far from the Madding Crowd' contains 'upsetting scenes' about the 'cruelty of nature' and 'rural life'

UK Daily Mail ^ | August 15, 2022 | Charlotte Mclaughlin

[C19fan]

One of Thomas Hardy's most popular novels now comes with a trigger warning after students were told it contains 'upsetting scenes' about the 'cruelty of nature' and 'rural life'. 'Far from the Madding Crowd', which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life, has been slapped with a content warning by the University of Warwick.

[C19fan]

Supposedly the Victorians were the most emotionally repressed and squeamish generation in human history. Now the current generation in college has easily climbed to the top spot. I have read the novel and watched 2 different adaptations. /***sarcasm***/I guess a flock of sheep falling off a cliff, a dog getting shot, and a murder are too much for Generation Snowflake./***sarcasm off/

[Da Coyote]

What are these clown kids doing in a university?

[PIF]

Best that students of literature stick with safe books like Das Capital and Mein Kamph.

[decal]

Yes, but they'll roar with approval over what Father Time does in Jude the Obscure.

[OpusatFR]

In this scenario, the West loses WWIII in a walk.

Are we sure the CCP isn’t running our media, schools, universities and government?

These proto-adults will never reach any type of maturity and strength.

[ClearCase_guy]

College students should probably stick with this:

[KarlInOhio]

Can we just show them Old Yeller and then pick up the bodies of the ones who die on the spot?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I'm guessing Bless the Beasts and Children is right out for these people. That one depicted the graphic cruelty of shooting penned animals for sport and had a teenager committing suicide at the end. I read that one in 9th grade.

Snowflakes.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

And so is The Catcher in the Rye. The main character gets beaten bloody by his roommate at a boarding school, then when he runs away, he crashes at a male teacher's apartment in NYC and is then molested by the teacher. He then freaks out a girl he fancies with desperate pleas to get married, IIRC.

[ToxicMasculinity]

GMAFB! Do they think nature is not cruel. Do they think animals talk and dance around like in Disney movies. Rural life has no cruelty in it? I don’t suppose they can’t see Deliverance without wetting their pants.

[servo1969]

We are turning into the Eloi.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Oh, and The Grapes of Wrath would be verboten with this crowd. It depicts an Oklahoma family traveling to California after being displaced from their farm during the Depression. In California, they suffer from malnutrition and unscrupulous landlords and bosses at an agricultural work camp, and the malnutrition is severe enough that the young mother can't properly breastfeed her baby.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Geez, I hope these snowflakes never read “The Painted Bird”.

[ToxicMasculinity]

And that’s just Disney. How about Golding’s Lord of the Flies! Book and movie. Or Pincher Martin.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

And they would need fainting couches for Of Mice and Men. Yep, they would crap their shorts when the retarded -- uh, mentally challenged guy is shot to death at the end of the book after accidentally killing a young woman, because he was ultimately too much trouble for his friend.

[ToxicMasculinity]

Oooh! Ooooh! I forgot to mention The Hot Gates, where a bunch of white male Europeans kill a bunch of Asiatics.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Don't forget Alas, Babylon, in which a Florida lawyer and playboy has to lead and discipline his community in the aftermath of a massive Soviet nuclear attack. The lawyer mandates capital punishment by hanging for certain crimes, and disturbing imagery includes a little girl taking a dump on the side of the road, as well as a boy who suffers radiation poisoning from a piece of contaminated jewelry.

As that gay Maitre'D says in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "I weep for the future."

[LS]

These insaniac spoogechickens will not stop until they are stopped.

[SkyDancer]

Back in our parents day they were building bomb shelters; today’s parents are building safe places for their snowflakes.

[Savage Beast]

"What are these clown kids doing in a university?"

I hope they never discover the horrors of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sophocles, Aeschylus, William Shakespeare--or Euripides of all people! Not to mention Tosca, Tristan und Isolde, Faust, Der Ring der Niebelungen, The Dialogues of the Carmelites, Madama Butterfly, the St. Matthew Passion, or what happened to poor Aida! And for heaven's sake do not let them read I, Claudius or anything written by Gibbon!

What on earth would happen to them if they should?