[Solus]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/war...&referrer=

Quote:

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Should students about to read “The Great Gatsby” be forewarned about “a variety of scenes that reference gory, abusive and misogynistic violence,” as one Rutgers student proposed? Would any book that addresses racism — like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” or “Things Fall Apart” — have to be preceded by a note of caution? Do sexual images from Greek mythology need to come with a viewer-beware label?

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 or, as some students assert, cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of rape or in war veterans.

Quote:

“Any kind of blanket trigger policy is inimical to academic freedom,” said Lisa Hajjar, a sociology professor at the university here, who often uses graphic depictions of torture in her courses about war. “Any student can request some sort of individual accommodation, but to say we need some kind of one-size-fits-all approach is totally wrong. The presumption there is that students should not be forced to deal with something that makes them uncomfortable is absurd or even dangerous.”

Quote:

Bailey Loverin, a sophomore at Santa Barbara, said the idea for campuswide trigger warnings came to her in February after a professor showed a graphic film depicting rape. She said that she herself had been a victim of sexual abuse, and that although she had not felt threatened by the film, she had approached the professor to suggest that students should have been warned.

So even though this victim of sexual abuse saw the very kind of content they're planning on labeling (and eventually censoring, let's not act like this isn't where it's heading) she herself wasn't affected by it. Yet this horseshit is still somehow necessary because "someone else might get upset".

This is yet another example of the pussification of the USA. We really are getting closer to Demolition Man.

Also, Ms. Loverin. WYB?

[cooledcannon]

WB hard despite the really fucked up fringe. I dont like the trend of short fringes...

[unbowed]

WB with Game of Thrones on.

[SheriffBart]

Here's my trigger warning. If I have to hear any more about these spineless dweebs, i'm going to pull out a gun and give them something real to cry about.

[Katatonic]

They need to just start posting these signs at the entrances of universities:

[Jukes]

WB with Catcher in the Rye on the nightstand. Students read these books in the past, so why do you need to apply baby proof now?

[Dusty]

[redbeard]

Duuuupe

[The Lizard of Oz]

(05-19-2014 05:09 PM)Solus Wrote:  

Also, Ms. Loverin. WYB?

This mousy whore needs to be fucked in every orifice until she is triggered into the sexual stupor that she craves. She has a mouth and lips perfected by nature for cocksucking -- no TMJ here, lol.

Sexual abuse victim my ass -- the only sexual abuse she is getting is manginas not knowing what to do with her and how to use her and shut her up.

[Cattle Rustler]

Even though I'm a liberal, this shit is dumb as fuck.

"ableism, classism, privilege, colonialism" checks? Seriously?

All of this is being done by white upper class female slobs who had never worked a day in their life. No, being a barista is not a real job.

I'm sure a person who is poor or was subjected to slavery would not mind talking about their experiences. Will the white privilege female stop an African rape refugee from talking at a socratic seminar?

The last thing the poor need is a middle class person to protect them. Fuck, they aren't even thinking about being protect. All they want is to work so they can get out of poverty.

[Icarus]

Despite the fact that UCSB has hundreds, if not thousands, of very attractive people, the photos on the NYTimes article only show ugly people, Ms. Loverin included. I wonder why.

[The Lizard of Oz]

(05-19-2014 06:45 PM)Icarus Wrote:  

Despite the fact that UCSB has hundreds, if not thousands, of very attractive people, the photos on the NYTimes article only show ugly people, Ms. Loverin included. I wonder why.

She is ugly and extremely fuckable. An overlooked category.

[Icarus]

This is also on Daily Mail:

[Cattle Rustler]

I'll hate fuck her.

[caracal]

(05-19-2014 06:37 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

(05-19-2014 05:09 PM)Solus Wrote:  

Also, Ms. Loverin. WYB?

This mousy whore needs to be fucked in every orifice until she is triggered into the sexual stupor that she craves. She has a mouth and lips perfected by nature for cocksucking -- no TMJ here, lol.

Sexual abuse victim my ass -- the only sexual abuse she is getting is manginas not knowing what to do with her and how to use her and shut her up.

Agreed. Would bang until my cock was raw. If she encountered a true alpha she'd be on her knees slurping his cock within an hour (if that).

[The Lizard of Oz]

(05-19-2014 07:01 PM)Icarus Wrote:  

This is also on Daily Mail:

It's a somewhat unflattering pic, angle etc. She is wearing very little makeup. The facial expression accentuates her wrinkles. She would look very different on her knees, her face glumly still and bobbling.

Like I said, she is ugly but fuckable. The expiration date is definitely nearing on her but it's not there yet.

[unbowed]

WB with Game of Thrones on.

[Agastya]

Hilarious because I go to this school and know this girl...hell, several of my female friends voted for her in our student body elections a couple weeks ago. She is pretty hot, by the way; welcome to UCSB, where even the feminists are attractive(sometimes)

I'm personally a fairly liberal person. I don't understand half the hatred that exists against gays and transgender people; as long as they don't go out of their way to bother me(and they rarely ever do), I treat them like normal people. Straight people like us also have no clue what they've gone through in childhood. I can only imagine the kind of confusion and uncertainty that would beset a trans kid, or the ridiculous amount of violent bullying that a gay child in the Deep South would experience. So I'm all for institutions and networks that give LGBT's a sense of family and community.

That said, I've seen some unbelievably stupid shit promoted on campus, from professors encouraging people to use the word "nibling" instead of "niece" or "nephew" to posters exhorting us to use gender-neutral "zir" or "hir" instead of "him" or "her". The worst was probably a billboard that tried to link Harry Potter to feminism. One portion argued that Voldemort wasn't born evil; rather, he was the product of "patriarchal institutions that drove him to commit atrocities". Oh, and the word "womyn" is used with depressing frequency.

The funniest thing about all this propaganda, however, is that no one gives a crap about it. I can safely assure you guys that ninety percent of USCB's population either ignores these kinds of messages or outright disparages them. I have a lot of faith in our student body. People are generally pretty moderate in their views; they don't listen to the liberal nonsense that's peddled at them daily, but they also don't stray toward the bitterness, cynicism, and bigotry that typifies large swathes of the right wing. This includes a lot of the garbage articles on ROK that I plan on calling out later this week.

On the point at hand, there is one dude on my rowing team who fought in Afghanistan for four years. He suffers from mild PTSD from the sound of women screaming. Whenever girls start shrieking during parties for no good reason, I see him visibly flinch. Obviously people like that deserve some kind of warning if a film is screened that could trigger a panic attack.

[runsonmagic]

Jane Austen novels need a trigger warning.

Also:
http://www.returnofkings.com/29099/how-t...agile-egos

[The Lizard of Oz]

(05-19-2014 07:31 PM)Agastya Wrote:  

She is pretty hot, by the way; welcome to UCSB, where even the feminists are attractive(sometimes)

Yeah, I knew she would be hot in person. Pics are not easy to read, but she is a classic ugly/hot type. Probably has a nice ass too.

[The Lizard of Oz]

(05-19-2014 07:31 PM)Agastya Wrote:  

I can only imagine the kind of confusion and uncertainty that would beset a trans kid, or the ridiculous amount of violent bullying that a gay child in the Deep South would experience.

It's only in their wildest dreams and fantasies that they are getting "violently bullied" in their own "Deep South".

There is absolutely no reason to believe that "gay children" anywhere in the US, including the deepest South, are subject to some sort of unthinkable "violent bullying". Maybe they get teased a little by some straight bucks which only makes them all the more hot and bothered.

[Rutting Elephant]

All the pussies who request this should be forced to major in children's literature.

It's shit like this that makes me hesitant to invest too much in Kindle books, since there is always the danger that they will cave to this or other bullshit and surreptitiously tamper with content.

[soup]

I'd let her get warned on my trigger

[Agastya]

(05-19-2014 08:51 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

(05-19-2014 07:31 PM)Agastya Wrote:  

I can only imagine the kind of confusion and uncertainty that would beset a trans kid, or the ridiculous amount of violent bullying that a gay child in the Deep South would experience.

It's only in their wildest dreams and fantasies that they are getting "violently bullied" in their own "Deep South".

There is absolutely no reason to believe that "gay children" anywhere in the US, including the deepest South, are subject to some sort of unthinkable "violent bullying". Maybe they get teased a little by some straight bucks which only makes them all the more hot and bothered.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/new...z1lMUOhTkF

Yeah, okay. Read that article from top to bottom.

I'm not one for letting little kids get treated like absolute shit for something they can't really control, least of all by adults who should know better.

[Dusty]

Quote:

You’re All Worthless and Weak
By Kevin D. Williamson
May 19, 2014 6:01 PM

Hearken, youngsters, to another tale of those ancient days, the Eighties, when nobody wore bicycle helmets and there were precious few outbreaks of easily preventable infectious diseases owing largely to the fact that your mom didn’t get her health-care advice from the same place your dad got his porn. Dangerous days, they were, full of scraped knees and hurt feelings.

The name “Tipper Gore” was never spoken casually; it was spat in contempt if it had to be uttered at all. The now-former Mrs. Al Gore was the leader of an organization called the Parents’ Music Resource Center, a coven of useless and thick-skulled citizens whose only claim to public attention was their being married to powerful men in Washington. The PMRC was aghast and atwitter (though there was no Twitter) about the shocking content of popular music, terrified of Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and scandalized by Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop.” The Twisted Sister song, they said, promoted violence; I defy you to locate a trace of violence in the lyrics, the main effect of which was teaching a million eleven-year-olds the meaning of “condescending” and “gall.” (Not quite as good for the vocabulary as Bad Religion, but this was the Eighties.) “She Bop” apparently encouraged masturbation, and this was before we had Ivy League college curricula to do that. Madonna, AC/DC – all the Eighties favorites came in for scrutiny. Even Judas Priest, as though this guy might have some kind of non-standard sexual agenda that would set Mrs. Gore’s radar beeping.

The upshot of the PMRC’s efforts was a campaign to encourage, or possibly require, the use of warning labels on potentially offensive or otherwise problematic musical recordings. This was seen, naturally enough, as the soft prelude to open censorship, and was denounced angrily in a thousand punk songs and self-righteous teen-age monologues. True, there was still an Iron Curtain back in those days, and we might have had more important things to worry about, but we did not think that just because we were legal minors that we needed Tipper Gore and her sorority of bored housewives to tell us what we should and should not listen to.

So, Millennials, I have to ask: What the hell happened to you people? We didn’t want warning labels when we were kids, and you’re demanding them as adults?

You’re out campaigning to have warning labels put not on Slayer albums but on Finnegan’s Wake and A Prayer for Owen Meany, because you’re afraid that after a lifetime of wearing pedestrian helmets your soft little butts are going to get kicked by a poem? I know, you grew up with drinking water full of estrogen and trips to self-esteem camp, but, for Pete’s sake. I can’t imagine what it is like to be one of you people, but I assume that spending New Year’s Eve on Times Square would capture exactly one-half of the experience.

As the sage said, “If that’s your best, your best won’t do.”