with the number of potential triggers being staggering, it really should be on the students to anonymously provide this information to the teacher - just like you would need for any accessibility concern, except with anonymity as an added protection for the student.

On the other hand, I was once in a class where a black girl asked a white guy to please stop saying the n word in class, particularly because it had nothing to do with the discussion. He then spent 45 minutes giving his life story and why he should be able to say anything he wants to say ever.

I honestly think back to my History 102 class, where the syllabus had GRAPHIC CONTENT in certain videos we would be watching, and the ability to complete an alternate assignment. It seems so simple, yet somehow it’s turned into this weird generational issue about hurt feelings.

I’m an adjunct at a midwestern university. many of my friends are adjunct or tenure track folks at universities across the USA. We are all in the Humanities and many of us regularly teach about race, gender, sex, and class. None of us have encountered any issues with students needing to be coddled and not wanting to…

Personally, I also have mixed feelings about trigger warnings, but the more that I’ve thought about it in the past few years ... it seems to me that, given the option of simply letting someone know about something that may be upsetting to them in advance (thus sparing them a nasty shock), like, why would you not?

And I don’t think it’s that the students do not want to participate in the class, they just don’t want to be caught off guard, possibly causing a panic attack while trying to do homework. A reasonable request, I think.

I like the “content warning” phrasing too. I had a class where we watched a TV show that had a pretty intense scene depicting an attempted rape and then murder of the would be assailant. My professor told us the week before that we’d be watching something with sexual violence and if anyone had an issue with that they…

“Faculty: take your students’ pain seriously.”

As a former adjunct professor, I rolled my eyes pretty hard the first time I heard about the stories about students demanding trigger warnings to protect their fragile feelings.

The problem is that it really doesn’t matter what you call it. The stigma will follow the term, kinda like the same way “Special Education” became “Exceptional Education” which became “Alternative Education”, and yet every “normal” kid magically seemed to know who the “slow kids” were and still abused them verbally…

I can go weeks, months, and heck probably even years without being called a racist.

“...it doesn’t matter which subject it is, you’re a bigot or you’re a racist.”

I met my husband’s father and one of his sisters after two months of “dating”. Of course it was in the morning, I was wearing a torn cocktail dress, ripped tights and last night’s makeup, and he had forgotten he was going hiking with his dad and sister that day...They asked me to come along but I demurred.

I feel like Taylor Swift is too calculating and in control to have an accidental pregnancy. She is probably super cautious with BC and has plan B on stand by.

Fair, but “Safe and Sound” with The Civil Wars is one of my favorite songs of recent memory. It was from the Hunger Games soundtrack and I should be more embarrassed by how much I like it.

‘You call me up again just to break me like a promise/So casually cruel in the name of being honest’

With the exception of “Blank Space” and “Style”, her biggest pop hits aren’t a reflection of her best work, they’re basically just dance tunes. Check out “All too Well”, “Clean”, and “State of Grace” for the better stuff.

Eh I don’t see Taylor being a pregnant bride. I think she’d wait and lil hiddle would be in the wedding

I mean, “You call me up again just to break me like a promise/So casually cruel in the name of being honest” or “You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter” are pretty good though.

Re: Jenny Slate and Chris Evans