[Vwoolf] Fwd: trigger warnings

[Jean Mills]

Ha! neither, as that would imply poetic genius on my part. I allude to the
fact that he felt oppressed by the burden of his workload at U College
Dublin having to grade thousands of state examinations as part of his
duties!

I, on the other hand, am merely a jean-ius. ;)

Jean


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Jeannette Smyth <
jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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!)
>
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Jeannette Smyth <
> jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>> 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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Jean Mills
Associate Professor
The Department of English
John Jay College/CUNY
524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12
New York, NY 10019

AUTHOR OF
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212.237.8706
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