Freshman Snowflakes Rebel Over FUN HOME

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 11:58am

Needless to say, this is F**KING ridiculous!!!  I hope and pray that Duke University does not bow down to these children and Their Sensitivities.

http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2015/08/freshmen-skipping-fun-home-for-moral-reasons

[Kad]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 12:37pm

A pity that some depiction of nudity and masturbation stands in the way of a book that could help them become more empathetic and worldly people.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 12:39pm

wow freshman in college are sensitive about nudity and sex stuff?

[LarryD2]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 12:55pm

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

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 12:59pm

What Books Would Jesus Burn?

[tazber]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 1:20pm

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

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 2:46pm

I love that they always get lots of "private messages" telling them how much they are supported. Nothing like being too afraid of even defending your own viewpoint to state that publicly.

If your view point was actually strong then it would be strong enough to stand up to being challenged every now and then.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 2:49pm

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?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 3:19pm

That's been going on for quite a while, actually.

[Kad]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 3:32pm

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY!!!

[tazber]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 4:00pm

AKA

WILLFUL IGNORANCE!!!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 4:05pm

AKA -- WE HATE THE QUEERS BECAUSE JESUS!!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 4:06pm

Yes, you wouldn't want to go to college and actually CHALLENGE your thinking.  Not reading a  book because of the subject matter (as a school assignment) is akin to hiding your head in the sand. READ the book and DISUSS it....and you can even bring your religious convictions TO that conversation.  Anything else is running home to mommy with all of your toys.

 

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

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 4:46pm

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.

[Fantod]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 4:49pm

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. 

Updated On: 8/24/15 at 04:49 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 4:50pm

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

[Fantod]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 4:52pm

I'm banner-kin and your appropriation has TRIGGERED me, ****lord!

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:00pm

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.

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:02pm

The Atlantic had a great cover story on trigger warnings, for anyone interested:

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:07pm

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.  

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:19pm

I would imagine that this isn't for a lit class but for some sort of freshman seminar and was chosen to spark discussion.  Well, it certainly did.

[LarryD2]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 5:42pm

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.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 6:15pm

We're talking Duke, where they coddle athletes. 

[Fantod]

Posted: 8/24/15 at 8:37pm

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?

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 8/25/15 at 2:02am

I guess I didn't realize that discourse about sexuality was too overwhelming for college freshmen while it's not for most high school freshmen.