[Vwoolf] Fwd: trigger warnings

[Jeannette Smyth]

Pied or unleaving? 

On May 19, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Jean Mills wrote:

> Yes, I'd like to cry foul over that, as well. Sounds more like military-speak, and more like it sprang from the loins of the culture of surveillance, violence, and war, we inhabit, rather than the big, bad spectre of feminist pedagogy.
> 
> Jean (who has to go grade 120 essays, and is feeling very Gerard Manley Hopkins-ish because of it!)
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> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Jeannette Smyth <jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Jeannette Smyth <jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net>
>> Date: May 19, 2014 9:47:07 AM MDT
>> To: Jeremy Hawthorn <jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no>
>> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] trigger warnings
>> 
>> Can someone direct me to the feminist DNA on trigger warnings? I find it almost impossible to reconcile that the generation of feminists who brought us do-me feminism and stripper/call girl PhDs, also invented this unconscionable Grundyism. I suspect, like the do-me feminism, it is a misinformed backlash against Andrea Dworkin.
>> 
>> As someone who actually has PTSD once told me, the way to cure is to step up to bat and get some more.
>> 
>> Jeannette Smyth
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>> On May 19, 2014, at 5:02 AM, Jeremy Hawthorn wrote:
>> 
>>> Colin Duckworth's book Angels of Darkness includes a letter from a doctor very worried about the effect on his daughter of reading and studying Waiting for Godot. It's quoted in this link: just click and search for Godot. I wonder if the doctor ever read The Waves.
>>> 
>>> http://www.samuel-beckett.net/Penelope/Beckett.html
>>> 
>>> Jeremy
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