tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post8189276337198234014..comments2024-03-28T23:25:07.821+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-33937014872698830612017-12-13T15:48:56.198+00:002017-12-13T15:48:56.198+00:00Trigger warnings come out of not wanting to trigge...Trigger warnings come out of not wanting to trigger flashbacks or panic attacks for those who've been assaulted. I always used them when I wrote fanfic so that anyone who was a survivor could avoid stuff that could really be bad for them at that time. Of course, that also allowed people to skip stuff that made them uncomfortable, and that's sadly where trigger warnings seem to have gone. Melfinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14939155022202916671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-82606975593713362312017-12-13T14:25:56.293+00:002017-12-13T14:25:56.293+00:00Writing as a trained Classicist and sometime profe...Writing as a trained Classicist and sometime professor of the subject, yes, trigger warnings for Ovid. It is because of the rape and violence. On the whole subject of trigger warnings, there is now a shift away from them at some schools - a trend starting, as I recall, with Swarthmore. Students there held that the point of college was precisely to stretch one’s horizons and expose oneself to uncomfortable topics. Perhaps that will become the “new normal.” Meanwhile, Ovid is still taught, it is just fraught.<br />cheers,<br />CKPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-22255059036543875762017-12-13T13:32:17.624+00:002017-12-13T13:32:17.624+00:00It is hard to remember when you had to work to con...It is hard to remember when you had to work to connect to the internet. Many steps and the "hardware handshake" sound. A trigger warning for Ovid?Mary Louhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05588244535423212079noreply@blogger.com