To be or not to be forewarned: Open University slaps trigger warnings for all but ONE of its texts studied on the English Literature course

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1. You can always count on it being a Dailymail article if they’ve ARBITRARILY capitalised at least one word in their HEADER.

2. sending strength and positivity

3. Helpful for PTSD sufferers and inconsequential to anyone else. Sounds like a good thing to me or is there something I missed?

   I know people in university courses that had breakdowns over certain units in their studies, trigger warnings and support via helplines etc would help to maintain their studies.

4. Christ this culture bullshit is so tiresome. Imagine being offended by this? When did content warnings on movies and TV come in?

5. I suspect the authors would be pleased by the recognition, surely they all strive to create

   >feelings of ‘distress’ and ‘trauma’.

   its kind of the point of serious literature.

6. I’m not shocked, the same generation also wants people to do jazz hands instead of clapping in case the loud noise scares them.

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   I’m surprised they don’t all bring their cuddle blanket to class wit them, too.