Collars also tend to say, “I did not sleep in this last night.” Not that a lack of collar says you did, but the collar makes a stronger statement about it.

This was my only problem with the chart. The placebo effect works even if you are aware of and acknowledge the possibility of a placebo. It’s too deeply ingrained to be a bias.

Well, on the one hand it’s because it was considered fashion-forward to wear a collared shirt about 500 years ago and we haven’t moved on from there. On the other hand, it’s currently considered polite and proper to do so in a nice restaurant today (not, like, a chain restaurant. A place with style and substance,…

Tell that to the law professor who was asked not to use the word “violate” as in “violate the law” because it could be triggering. Or the microaggression awareness project that was removed because listing microaggressions is apparently a microaggression.

I am a professor. I have my syllabus fully available well before class begins, so that when I say at the beginning of the course, “we’ll be dealing with some disturbing things in this course, check the syllabus if you foresee having problems with that, the best way to handle if that happens is to discuss it with me or…

Jeez, Dane Cook is 43?! Man, I feel old...

He made it equivalent by asking the State Supreme Court to intervene and rule “that Alabama’s ban on gay marriage was still in effect and probate judges were not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples”. If he just didn’t want to marry gay people, he could have stopped marrying people period (which he did! Like…

Well one, that’s not a trigger warning, that’s a student advocating for themselves, which you just dismissed as very unlikely. Since I have to run with the assumption that any or all of students could have experienced something traumatic, that means carefully bracketing out the possibly problematic aspects well before…

Likewise, it’s impossible for me to bracket out every possibly triggering aspect of a piece of literature, much less of a Socratic roundtable where I do not control the direction of conversation. There’s got to be a point at which a student takes over for their own recovery, even if it means skipping a class period or…

And I find that trigger warnings simply reinforce the idea that some things are better left unspoken about publicly. For over a hundred years, we’ve been fighting for the right to speak about rape, to move it beyond the veil of shame and silence, and triggers warnings simply move us back into the shadows.

It would be poorly summing up a piece to say “this piece includes rape,” because then students think the only important part of the text is rape. It’s necessarily reductive and allows them to focus on one aspect of the text at the expense of others. it “sums up” the reading in the way something like sparknotes does:…

Reticence to teach rape law in law schools because students ask for trigger warnings: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

None of them, which is I don’t describe them that way.

Think bigger. 2 Champagne fridges!

For one thing, I’d have to tell them that before they read it, and it defeats the purpose of literature if I sum it up for them, even if it’s to protect their feelings. For another, I’d much rather say “this course will deal with challenging and sometimes difficult topics” and ask people with specific needs to…

“Hey, you handle/take care of xyz, so I can/because I am doing abc.”

He also gets away with it by playing the clown, and I think he’s hung up his dresses for good.

Oh, those exist. One time Fox News threatened to sue Fox Entertainment over a Simpsons joke.

Yup. Thus we move from snubby to sexy.

Can’t tell if serious, but Lucille Ball was not a natural red head. She was blonde.