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   Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 07:57:30 JST Christina Warren

   Good. Cornell did the right thing here but I’ll admit to being (pleasantly)surprised it was this resolute. If an individual professor wants to do content warnings as a courtesy, fine. But trying to make that mandatory is not OK. #xp https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/nyregion/cornell-student-assembly-trigger-warnings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 07:57:29 JST Valerie Aurora

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     @film_girl my ideal solution would be free trauma therapy for everyone. That shit is expensive

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     Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 07:57:30 JST Christina Warren

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     I know this is impulse but I fundamentally don’t agree with trigger warnings as a concept. I’ll try to honor them/respect people who need them if I know in advance, but I fundamentally don’t believe in them. I’m glad Cornell pushed back.

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     Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 07:57:30 JST Christina Warren

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     This shit started when I was in college and I don’t think it has had a positive effect on anyone. If anything, the ability to guard ourselves from anything potentially upsetting has made us more polarized and less able to connect with one another or to truly understand and empathize with trauma.

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 07:47:06 JST Valerie Aurora

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     • Colin

     @colin @film_girl @misc it does seem silly but I have had enough friends with what are unfortunately literally life-threatening food-related disorders that I CW all food anyway

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     Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 07:47:10 JST Christina Warren

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     • Valerie Aurora

     @misc @vaurora Like I said, I'll always try to be thoughtful and courteous if I know in advance. But I'm not going to go out of my way to use them and I'm not going to preface any mention of a film/book with a CW, I'm just not.

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     Colin (colin@hoagie.fun)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 07:47:10 JST Colin

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     @film_girl @misc @vaurora The one that always gets me is people who CW posting a photo of meat (like a steak or a burger)

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     Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 07:47:11 JST Christina Warren

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     • Valerie Aurora

     @vaurora absolutely. But I don’t think avoiding anything that might be upsetting is in any way helpful. But yes, access to therapy would be ideal.

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     Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 07:47:11 JST Jesse

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     • Valerie Aurora

     @film_girl @vaurora I always just assume that the fact that I don't need them means I'm not who they're for. I don't want to second guess people who have a harder time. It does get a little overboard here - but I think mostly because its use blends into post titles / category metadata. In general CWs just seem like a nice courtesy, not something to be uptight about, in any direction. (Unless it's, like, flashing lights.)