Maybe Mitt can lend him some of his binders.

As someone who has been raped and experienced assault as a child, some of the best things for me to read to process my past and my feelings about it dealt with similar topics. Am I anomalous? I feel as if I derived more value from works dealing with sexual assault and abuse than my peers.

Right. Triggers ARE actually related to PTSD. The whole idea of triggers is being co-opted by people who do not have PTSD. This is what Waters is referring to in the interview.

Who is talking about being a woman? The topic is co-opting serious mental disorders to avoid being challenged or feeling those pesky human feelings.

You’re in college, you can’t look up what Lolita is about ahead of time? I mean, you just you look up reviews for this very reason, but a 20 year old needs an announcement? I don’t get this. Why not have every professor begin the first class by saying “everything in this class is on the syllabus. Please look it over…

“No fireworks” isn’t really a trigger warning. That’s a request. It’s nice of the people in your neighborhood to honor that. I doubt some people in my neighborhood would. “July 4th is today” should be acting as the trigger warning in that situation.

I did not do anything remotely resembling, “shitting on survivors” I shared my personal belief that trigger warnings don’t help me and I don’t believe in them, offered that your opinions don’t trump mine and now you have accused me of shitting on survivors. That is incorrect.

But why does a fully grown adult with basic reading comprehension (i.e., hopefully every college student) need the professor to do that? The issue with trigger warnings, for me, has very little (if at all) to do with the purpose of those warnings—I have no desire in anyone reliving a trauma—but rather with the idea…

90% of women don’t experience PTSD. 96% of men don’t experience PTSD.

The thing is, I have a really hard time seeing a situation where an expressed warning would be necessary in the context of a college class specifically. All college classes are supposed to come with a syllabus, the topic of every class should be known ahead of time. If you’re taking a class on World War II, the 3rd…

I think it’s important, as a former student who had PTSD (roommate’s suicide attempt/fire, and I have very boring paperwork for it) to take responsibility for yourself. I talked to my professor’s at the beginning of the semester to ask them questions about course material.

How far does our right to avoid trauma extend? The college classroom is attended voluntarily.

I have been raped. To shield me and handle me with kid gloves is to deny me the strength I have worked so hard to regain. I’m a woman, and I understand as much as any survivor that rape happens. Trigger warnings are bullshit.

John Waters is supremely cavalier and dismissive and that is precisely why we love him.

Which triggers do you warn for? All? Just assault?

yep, another old woman here, and it’s true. Once you are no longer fuckable you find out that all those guys who you thought really were interested in what you had to say...? not so much. You find out how much of your personal power , which you thought was about you as a person, was actually based on your value as a…

Hur. I’m guessing you don’t have a lot of middle-aged women among your friends. Get older and hang out with nice sweet clerical 50something women and you’ll hear stuff that belongs in Susan Brownmiller, only they didn’t read any books to get there.

Women do eventually notice how hard they’re getting fucked over and…

Almost as if she thinks she’s entitled to speak her mind because she’s an older woman and a citizen of the United States of America.

That’s true. But it doesn’t change the fact that Bernie’s and Hillary’s voting records line up exactly something like 97% of the time, and that their policy disagreements are almost always ones of very small degrees.

I support Sanders because Clinton is basically a republican.