Idina's singing ability. Everyone wants to be able to hit those notes like Idina.
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That version of "Let It Go" was pretty good, but the best children's song of all time comes from a foul-mouthed autistic lady I used to work with. "Little Bunny Foo Foo, hopping through the forest, scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head. Down came the good fairy, and she said... 'God DAMN it, Bunny…
It's vague enough to be anything, really. It can be about trying to fix a broken heater, then giving up.
Back in my day, I belted "A PART OF YOUR WORLD" in the shower over and over. for months It was only about a year later, when my brother was belting the Pretty Woman song in the shower than I learned that, no, the shower is not soundproof and you can hear the singing clear as day everywhere in the house.
I'm not talking about "what ifs" here. The fact that you are (supposedly) a professor and ostensibly committed to the academic and professional success of your students, and you don't acknowledge their emotional wellbeing as even a minor factor in that success or worth your time at all, is incomprehensible to me. We…
PTSD and anxiety disorders are medically diagnosed disabilities. Universities and other workplaces are already required to provide reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities, and I don't see why this should be any different. Personally I think putting trigger warnings on assigned literature is a completely…
Agreed, it's difficult for someone like me who has no triggers to understand it, but it doesn't impede anything or anyone to have a warning so why not?
No, you just say briefly at the outset of each year/ new intake of students that you'll provide warnings to the best of your ability to X and Y types of material (for example images of graphic/bloody violence and literature/speech that mention rape). Then you give them an email address and invite them to message you…
often syllabi are made without the teacher even having read all the books.
My sister teaches history at community colleges so she gets a lot of students from the military taking classes to transfer. She just makes a general statement at the beginning that if someone in the class has a pre-existing problem like PTSD then they should consider sitting by the door. She also warns them ahead of…
I understand why people are balking at the bureaucratic elements, I do (and that's most of the reason why I myself have mixed feelings about warnings as an actual policy) — but I'm digging my heels in and going "REALLY?" a lot on this because some of the responses from academics have been so shamelessly hyperbolic.…
Hi all! I'm actually one of the students sourced in the article above - I am the Rutgers student who wrote about the use of Trigger Warnings on campus. Needless to say, I've gotten a lot of flak and foul messages from some of my detractors, but I'm hoping at least on Jezebel I can have a safe space to unpack more of…
The thing is, everyday life doesn't usually bombard people with triggering material. I've come across things on the internet that are upsetting, and been forced to sit through class discussions that are deeply triggering. I've never once been walking down the street or grocery shopping and encountered anything…
This is really interesting to me, because I sometimes teach a class for a military-affiliated institution and most of my students are combat veterans. The class itself - for which I do not set the curriculum - is based on using historical case studies to think about universal principles of war, so there is some really…
A trigger warning is not censorship. Censorship is to remove the material in question altogether. A trigger warning just says "hey, heads up, X is in this, prepare yourself or don't proceed."
Also, if she thinks those snooty college kids are judging her, it's probably because she announces she's a great tipper as soon as they introduce themselves.
When I'm a paying customer, I expect to be treated with courtesy regardless of the beverage I order.
I never walked out of a job. But one time I just didn't come in.