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Cambridge Uni students get Shakespeare trigger warnings
Shakespeare contains gore and violence that might "upset" you, Cambridge University students have been warned. The "trigger warnings" - red triangles with an exclamation mark - appeared on their English lecture timetables.
Lectures including Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus contain "discussion of sexual violence, sexual assault", the BBC's Newsnight programme has learned.
The university said the warnings were "at the lecturer's own discretion" and "not a faculty-wide policy". The lecture timetables were issued to this term's students by the university's faculty of English.
[...] Asked about the warnings, one Cambridge academic who did not wish to be named, said their "duty as educators was to prepare students for the world not protect them for three years". Prof Dennis Hayes from Derby University's education faculty said: "Once you get a few trigger warnings, lecturers will stop presenting anything that is controversial... gradually, there is no critical discussion".
Cambridge University said the English faculty "does not have a policy on trigger warnings", but added: "Some lecturers indicate that some sensitive material will be covered in a lecture... this is entirely at the lecturer's own discretion and is in no way indicative of a faculty-wide policy."
Forsooth!
Also at Cambridge News, The Guardian, and The Independent.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Friday October 20 2017, @03:01AM (9 children)
ok, I'm an old guy. I am over 50 and this concept makes zero sense to me.
can someone explain what this 'tw' stuff is all about?
(seems like more pussification of america and the UK, to me)
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @03:09AM (1 child)
Given your parenthetical I'd like a little more about how much you already know before bothering to reply.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @03:15AM
I think the question was rhetorical.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday October 20 2017, @03:12AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_trigger#Trigger_warnings [wikipedia.org]
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/trigger_warning [oxforddictionaries.com]
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/trigger-warning [dictionary.com]
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trigger%20warning [urbandictionary.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 5, Funny) by chromas on Friday October 20 2017, @03:55AM (5 children)
If you were in The War and got the PTSDs, a trigger warning would allow you to leave the room if there's going to be explosions or whatever triggers your PTSD. Unfortunately, there's something worse than veteran PTSD, and that's Twitter PTSD. [kym-cdn.com]
You see, receiving mean messages from people you don't know on the internet or reading a book with a word you hear at least 850 times in almost any rap is much more harmful than being shot in the face or seeing your best friend's leg blown off and watching him bleed out in your arms. It is for this reason that well-to-do young adults with zero life experience must be forewarned, lest they accidentally stumble across classic literature and gain perspective.
(Score: 1) by Noldir on Friday October 20 2017, @09:45AM (1 child)
Twitter PTSD....I thought you where joking. And proactively trying to silence the armed forces because Twitter PTSD is worse then the stuff the boys and girls in green get.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @05:58PM
Reading comprehension pal, "there are groups that have higher statistics of PTSD than you" in reference I suppose to military personnel giving her a hard time for using the term PTSD like they are the only ones who suffer from it. There is absolutely nothing about "twitter PTSD" but there is reference to online harassment / stalking, and if you don't realize by now that it can be a big deal then you need to get out of the house more, expand your consciousness to include more than teenage bravado.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @12:10PM (1 child)
We need a "+1 holy cow, it's real" mod.
"Twitter PTSD" - shakes head slowly and walks away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @12:15PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/ [reddit.com]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday October 20 2017, @01:50PM
There’s some real danger there. It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider. You know, in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam -- it’s called Twitter. But she knew what she was getting into when she signed up. They lay it out in the Terms of Service.