Comments on: The Age Of Indignation

By: WendyB

WendyB — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:55:07 +0000

I laughed Diet Snapple out of my nose at that joke.

I haven’t visited here (or anywhere) in so long and I’m having a great time catching up.

P.S. Trigger warnings are fucking bullshit and I’m entitled to feel fat whenever I fucking want to.

By: David Duff

David Duff — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:38:04 +0000

So there goes Shakespeare out of the college windows!

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 19:33:22 +0000

Ali – Yep, good point about avoiding giant ignorant clusterfuck.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:19:02 +0000

*lots of errors! Sorry, I am writing from my phone!

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:17:46 +0000

I think we should all be able to talk about what the fuck we want – but professors at universities shouldn’t be talking about complex and nuanced race, sexual assault, abuse, and gender issues of they aren’t knowledgable about these subjects. They are paid to teach! A lot of professors use these subjects stir shallow excitement or cherry pick ideas from people who actually know what they’re talking about to procure grant money. Nothing wrong with talking about this stuff in a public setting as long as the professor is capable of not only wha to just spoke of, but also, of moderating the conversation so it doesn’t become a clusterfuck of people spouting outlandish bullshit about these subjects.

Everybody can stop being indignant though – people at large FUCK UP ALL THE TIME, nobody is immune. You can’t expect random humans to be on the same page as you.

The most important thing is that humans who grapple with the issues derived from either race, assault, abuse, gender, sexuality, (or a few of these at ounce) should feel supported when they cut out the people in their lives close to them who refuse to engage a nuanced conversation about identity or trauma.

The worst thing about these indignant people is that they’re looking outward instead of looking inward.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:43:51 +0000

Dj – Hahahahaha! p.s. just smoked some dope, shhhhhhhh

Helen – Great husband.

Maggie – and now I’m traumatized by the student who complained. It never ends with ‘triggers.’

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:40:08 +0000

Marla griffith – I know what you mean about self-censoring and it’s a good thing. We don’t need to be oafs blurting out hate speech.

But I don’t agree about tea-baggers: I think they’re enraged rather than indignant. They’re practically frothing at the mouth because there’s a black man in the White House and some people don’t want babies.

annemarie – !!! What a fucking great series of tweets! Ha! And I wish I could take your class, you fucking cunt! xoxoxoxo

By: Dj

Dj — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:46:17 +0000

Forgot to add marijuana to my off the table list…….yes, forgot

By: Marla griffith

Marla griffith — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:52:54 +0000

college is a place to explore ideas, they may not necessarily be valid. I agree, we are becoming so fearful of saying anything controversial, but is that so bad? Do we need to hear racist and sexist comments and let them slide under the ” guise of humor”? Howard Stern is a great comedian and social commentator, but he has censored himself, and past shows, to become more acceptable to his AGT bosses. Black face was once acceptable, aren’t we better off without it? Women get to vote and own property. People change and grow. It’ difficult, I know.
As far as progressives being indignant, I find the teabaggers are always throwing a fit or, ” indignant” for no apparent reason, ie, they want their country back, drink huge containers of soda, no climate change, etc, etc.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:40:51 +0000

Reminds me of an art teacher I had in college, who told me and another student one time about how both her parents were killed in a murder suicide committed by her grandfather when she went away to college. She was our mentor and I was deeply touched that she shared this story with me. The other student complained to the administration that she had been traumatized by having to hear about it.