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April 30, 2015
Today it seems like feminism is largely defined by cringing, whining, cowering, and weeping emotional infants.
The safe space, Ms. Byron explained, was intended to give people who might find comments “troubling” or “triggering,” a place to recuperate.The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies, as well as students and staff members trained to deal with trauma. Emma Hall, a junior, rape survivor and “sexual assault peer educator” who helped set up the room and worked in it during the debate, estimates that a couple of dozen people used it. At one point she went to the lecture hall—it was packed—but after a while, she had to return to the safe space. “I was feeling bombarded by a lot of viewpoints that really go against my dearly and closely held beliefs,” Ms. Hall said. Word Around the Net: THE CRINGING
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"Trigger Warning: College Kids Are Human Veal: Abetted by idiot administrators, today’s students seem incapable of living in the real world." by Nick Gillespie
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/30/trigger-warning-college-kids-are-human-veal.html
"Every time we seem to have reached peak insanity when it comes to the intellectually constipated and socially stultifying atmosphere on today’s college campuses, some new story manages to reveal vast new and untapped reservoirs of ridiculousness. In a world of trigger warnings, microaggressions, and official apologies featuring misgendered pronouns that start a whole new round of accusations, wonders never cease.
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"But really, what the fuck is wrong with kids these days and, more important, the supposed adults who look after them? They act as if they are raising human veal that cannot even stand on their own legs or face the sunlight without having their eyeballs burned out and their hearts broken by a single deep breath or uncomfortable moment. I’m just waiting for stories of college deans carrying students from class to class on their backs."
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at April 30, 2015 11:43 AM
Didn't that sh*t used to be called "the vapours"? Baby hasn't come such a long way after all.
Posted by: leelu at April 30, 2015 2:28 PM
Some dickhead called me a "faggot" on Facebook for daring to dismiss hysteria about the Koch brothers. I pointed out to him his likely genealogy and probable DNA disconnects and left it at that. But was that the right reaction? Shouldn't there be safe places for old guys who . . . oh wait. They're called bars.
And what the hell am I doing on Facebook anyway?
Posted by: DonRodrigo at May 1, 2015 12:23 PM
Don: Lie to no one.
If it’s somebody close to you, you’re gonna ruin it with a lie.
If it’s a stranger, who the fuck are they that you gotta lie to them?
As for the rest of 'em, they can go fuck themselves.
Posted by: chasmatic at May 1, 2015 8:57 PM