Freshman Snowflakes Rebel Over FUN HOME

Grasso noted that he felt the book choice was insensitive to people with more conservative beliefs.?“Duke did not seem to have people like me in mind,” he said. “It was like Duke didn’t know we existed, which surprises me.”

The white Christian heterosexual persecution myth is alive and well!

Updated On: 8/24/15 at 12:55 PM

These students should transfer to a christian college.

They're acting all whiny like mommy and daddy can just call the principal and complain. It's higher learning. Stop trying to bring it down to your closed minded and ignorant level.

Updated On: 8/24/15 at 01:20 PM

They're always rebelling against gay stuff, notice. Never over the myriad dietary restrictions, regulations on women's behavior, or that pesky thing about Jesus condemning divorce.

And this is happening at Duke, no less. Is this the start of a nation-wide "we're Christians so we don't have to learn what we don't want to learn" movement?

AKA -- WE HATE THE QUEERS BECAUSE JESUS!!

These good little Christians act like they've never read or watched a single "dirty" scene before in their lives. There are same-sex relations going on out there, kids. Get over it.

At colleges now, they replaced the banner that used to say "WELCOME FRESHMEN!" with one that reads "TRIGGER WARNING!"

Fantod said: "I read Lolita in my Freshman year of high school (as an assignment). What the hell is wrong with people? "We don't have to read the book".
Oh yeah, I guess it wasn't really assigned and it was all a dream. Go home Dorothy. On a side note, how is Fun Home college level? The literary levels of that book are barely high school level. Have them read something by Isherwood if you want to tackle gay themes."

If I may, it feels like colleges are getting more and more lax with reading material. I'm a sophomore in college right now, and the books we're reading in my English lit class include Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and a couple others that I can't remember at the moment. Either way, I know for a fact that high school (and, in some cases, even junior high) classes have studied these books before, so I was kind of surprised when I found out that we would be reading these in a college course. I guess the same can be said for college students reading Fun Home.

I will admit, some of the pictures surprised me, but it is far from pornographic.?

As if that were the actual point. One look into these students' browser histories would confirm that they are well aware of what is pornographic. They are either 1) run-of-the-mill "conservative" (or "independent" or "libertarian" "Christian" bigots, 2) run-of-the-mill college kids desperate for attention or 3) both 1 and 2.

On a side note, how is Fun Home college level? The literary levels of that book are barely high school level.

Um, aren't you a high schooler? Who are you to say what should and should not be assigned in a college course, and why? Maybe when you get to college in a few years, you'll learn that popular literature is frequently taught and can be just as important and edifying as anything.

I have two siblings in college. One is reading The Castle right now, the other, The Sound and the Fury. College should challenge the mind, do you not agree?