The facts don’t fit your side-eye narrative, actually. From Wikipedia:

I know right? When can we get back to the montage of awesome explosions and pedestrian murder sprees from Grand Theft Auto and away from this sick murder crap.

The pregnancy one is that pisses me off the most. The dress had fabric that draped over her belly. Mystery solved. I honestly think questioning the pregnancy of a woman who already went through a miscarriage is just mean.

BUT WAS SHE EVER EVEN PREGNANT? IS SHE REALLY 40 YEARS OLD? IS SHE ACTUALLY AN ALIEN?

BEYONCE IS ALMOST THE SAME WORD AS BENGHAZI!!!11!

The amount of conspiracy theories about Beyonce are exhausting and people need to calm the fuck down.

Two famous celebs that were there: Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross (all on their snapchats)

The fact that you think an entire degree program could/should be where trigger warnings happen tells me you don’t understand the issue. The issue is that, as a rape survivor, I need to steel myself before engaging with graphic depictions of sexual assault. Being told it might come up in a four year program is in no…

Of course if it's being used in as written in something that is used in a class or in some educational context by the instructor or students that's one thing. But to use it any way when someone is communicating in a professional setting isn't right to me.

Then I’m not sure what your point is. College students with PTSD (some of whom, incidentally, are veterans) are asking for the same consideration given to veterans with PTSD. College students who have experienced trauma but who may not meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD (again, some of whom are veterans) are asking…

Good to know that because I have PTSD as a result of having been repeatedly raped, I have a “feeble mind” and no longer deserve education. (My rapists, however, presumably do, since they’re not triggered by discussions of rape at all. How superior of them!)

I don’t really understand your point A. If a bunch of able-bodied people walk up a wheelchair ramp, does that somehow invalidate the necessity of wheelchair ramps? I’m sure there are people who ask for trigger warnings who don’t need them, or don’t need them as intensely as someone with PTSD does, but that doesn’t…

How did he go his entire life without getting his ass whooped?

Are you somehow under the impression that no college students have PTSD?

Yes. Speaking as someone with PTSD, trigger warnings actually help me. And, as was already explained upthread, trigger warnings do not equate to “avoiding [a topic] forever in every single way.” They mean that someone who has been violently gang-raped doesn’t sit down to watch a movie in class and suddenly find…

“The function of trigger warnings, used properly, is to let people know that material will require some extra emotional effort.”

On the flip side, I teach college classes on race, and when I tell students (when it comes up) that I won’t be saying that word or any other racialor ethnic slur, even in context (quoting someone, for example), I see all sorts of people sighing and rolling their eyes. I still won’t do it, but I’m always surprised how…

I assign this sort of thing at a large state university for several reasons: students are incredibly unprepared and have little time for coursework on top of their several jobs and their other responsibilities. In large courses, with no TA but still with the requirement that the class be ‘writing intensive,’ this sort…

Being an older student you are very possibly overestimating how well prepared your fellow classmates are in performing research. I’ve taught third year coureses at a very good university (I’m just finishin my PhD in the humanities), and I also always taught research methods in those, including the stages of…

I guess the first “trigger warning” I ever got was when we read Huckleberry Finn in 5th grade and the teacher spent about 20 minutes talking about the language in the book we were about to read. That was 1979.