Trigger Warnings are pointless and only increase stress
Excellent essay, especially for those who have PTSD
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“Yes, you read that right—a children’s book now comes with a trigger warning for adults.
What’s more, Peter Pan is not the only children’s book to come with an advisory at Aberdeen.
Among others are Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children and C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Last year the university put a trigger warning on Beowulf, the epic poem considered one of the most significant works in the English literary canon, for its depictions of “animal cruelty” and “ableism.”
The year before that, the university pushed lecturers to issue content warnings for a long list of topics including abortion, miscarriage, childbirth, depictions of poverty, classism, blasphemy, adultery, blood, alcohol and drug abuse.”