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Columbia students claim Greek mythology needs a trigger warning
- linkydinkandyou 11y agoWe need to have single-sex classrooms again. Maybe they weren't such a bad idea.
- orionblastar 11y agoYeah a lot of Greek Myths started out because Zeus couldn't keep it in his pants. I'd say the Greek Myths were a lot like the current Game of Thrones series and books.
- mahouse 11y agoI guess you only could get "triggered" if you were raped or something? Did all of those students get raped at least once?
- jack-r-abbit 11y agoSince the world at large does not have trigger warnings, it must be terrifying for those effected to even leave the house. How does one even function in the world when at any minute something could trigger without warning?
- shas3 11y agoTrigger warnings are actually detrimental to mental health as enunciated in this Atlantic article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-codd... Anxiety, for instance can be alleviated by exposure to the source of fear. Education needs something similar to cognitive behavioral therapy, with emphasis on evidence rather than the emotion-based trigger warnings.