Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon

My thoughts exactly. The frivolity, especially in regard to academia, is insulting.

Edit: Also, my understanding of trigger warnings are that they're in place so whomever may be triggered may be able to mentally prepare themselves for the content, not excuse them from an assignment. If they chose to skip a scene or something, that's one thing, but it kind of discredits the emotional state of someone with PTSD if their trauma is deemed just as valid as someone with a fear of bugs.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.