Travolta is 62, should be someone older.

Tom Cruise, his family is scientology.

Not only that but the whole point of this moronic stunt was the show the non-using public about the effects of drug use. A quick google search does just that. Hell, haven’t we all seen the meth mugshot timeline? Also, I don’t need to see what cops see. That’s why I’m not a cop.

Thank you for reading Joanna’s Ratings.

I almost feel guilty about how little I disapprove of this. The curse of being a bleeding-heart liberal and not a college athlete rapist, I guess.

I think it’s wonderfully optimistic that you think he’ll feel shame over this.

As long as the protestors don’t resort to violent action or harass his family and friends, I think this is an appropriate form of expressing anger about an obvious injustice. In lieu of a prison sentence, Turner will have to endure this humiliating protest and live with the shame forever, even if the actual…

Ugh, this kind of thing is so frustrating. And actually kind of offensive to people that have legitimate issues with certain content. I realize that my reactions and how I handle things don’t speak for everyone and I’m not saying anyone should have to respond in the same way. And I would never fault anyone for seeking…

I was under the impression that the point of trigger warnings was to let students know well ahead of time that some kind of upsetting content will be covered so they won’t be taken off-guard. My film class watched A Clockwork Orange; it’s only fair to [TRIGGER WARNING: SPOILERS] mention ahead of time that there’s a…

SO I have another example from this very class that illustrates this perfectly. I can’t remember how we got into this discussion but the response by the student stays with me to this day.

As someone (unfortunately) raised and schooled in the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church, I can tell you there are some people who think EVERYTHING is offensive to their religion/Christianity.

This viewpoint is very fascinating to me. It illustrates a fundamental problem with anyone trying to “right the wrongs” of society. They are not acknowledging their own bias with regards to what “right” looks like.

I believe it’s human nature to assume what is “right” is really just what is most familiar. And I have a…

This is why trigger warnings end up getting a bad rap. There are valid reasons, abuse survivors, veterans, etc should at least get the heads up when it’s not obvious from the work what’s going to be coming, but those using it to be lazy is just unacceptable. “Weird” is why you go to college, if you’re just planning on…

Those examples highlight the issue pretty well. Something that started as “we have empathy for people with PTSD and are going to do this totally innocuous and inconsequential thing that might help them” becomes “shitty people try to abuse that empathy to get out of work.”

I’m a Lutheran and I enjoy science fiction and fantasy as much as the next completely obsessed geek. I have also extensively studied Lutheran theology. I can attest that this person was making stuff up.

Well, unless she was one of the fundamentalist “Lutherans”. In which case it wouldn’t be her that was making stuff…

I have had this happen to me as well. I can’t say that this is always how it works but it was clear to me that the student who pulled this on me just simply didn’t want to have to deal with the film I was showing. I say this because the week before I showed a film where she was amongst the students who complained that…

Yeah, that’s a terrible example, but I think the point that the “real world” does not adjust to you is valid. I think a better point would be the UChicago student I saw today deriding the lack of trigger warnings for spiders in a bio textbook given that he has arachnophobia. The spiders in your cupboard do not care…

As a college professor I can only speak from my experience and here it is: trigger warnings are used by students mainly as a way of getting out of work or for not having to read literature that they don’t want to. In legit cases (such as a veteran fresh from Afghanistan who didn’t want to watch a segment of Band of…

Imagine the same policy told to the delicate flowers of Oberlin...

oh, millenials are going to "fix" things. can't wait for that.