#i'm offended

[obaewankenope]

Hey

Hey

Psst!

I have something to tell you!

Come closer

Let me whisper it to you

Because I forgot my Loud Setting at home

H e y

Hey

Here's what I'm gonna say:

AO3 IS FINE HOW IT IS! STOP TRYING TO CENSOR A WEBSITE THAT ADHERES TO U.S. LAW ON CSAM BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE MORALS OF A 70s HOUSEWIFE OR NED'S WIFE FROM THE SIMPSONS!

Okay?

That's all.

Bye now

[hisuiregionontop]

hearing that ritsu canonically does not listen to music sent me into a coma

[42starsintheuniverse]

"amazingmommy"

They need to be stopped ://

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"The right to take offense is stretched to its very limits by many religious groups even in Western liberal democracies. It should be held, in my opinion, that the right to critique supersedes the right to take offense... The essential right to constructive or even ironic criticism is something that we should fight for." -- Saahil

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And when we don't, it looks like Denmark.

[readreactrant]

I will never forgive the writers of high card for naming this beauty of a twink "Owen" 😭😭😭

[antics-of-a-spiteful-stickbug]

Me: Some people call me bug, some people call me stick, some settle for stickbug-

@thescribblings, ever so polite: I call you bastard.

[rottenresponse]

THINGS NOBODY TOLD ME EXISTED, PART ONE:

A MONOKUMA x GLOOMY BEAR COLLAB???? WHEN???? HELLO??? WTF WHY IS EVERYTHING FROM IT LITERALLY NO WHERE W H A T 😭😭😭

[forestshadow-wolf]

Actually I change my mind, anon, come back!

Why does Elo get the hate? Am I not GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU

[maxsix]

[jaxxxxyyy]

are u one them rainbow people...

...erm. no, of course not 😒

[clockswatches]

my dad asked me if I knew who Bamm-Bamm was

[rulesforthedance]

The dog knows that if he Sits So Politely you will give him the dog treat you're holding. And he believes that if he Sits So Politely you might also give him (a mix of, among other things, several kinds of dog that were bred to hunt small animals) the cherished pet lizard you're holding. What do you take me for

[schumigrace]

just noticed that one of my closest friends whilst I was at uni has unfriended me on facebook smh

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Chris Hastings

Published: Jun 25, 2023

Is this a case of crazy wokery I see before me? Actors ridicule university trigger warnings over blood in Macbeth

Queen University Belfast has issued a warning to students studying Shakespeare

It stressed Macbeth 'could cause offence' due to its depictions of 'bloodshed'  

Similar warnings have been applied to the Twelfth Night and Titus Andronicus

It is Shakespeare's most violent play – a bloody saga packed with stabbing, strangling and poisoning that reaches a grisly climax with a beheading.

And for more than 400 years audiences have been enthralled – if a little disturbed – by the butchery of Macbeth.

But now one of the UK's top universities stands accused of 'infantilising' students after it warned them they might be 'offended' by the 'bloodshed' in the play.

Queen's University Belfast has issued the warning to undergraduates studying a module called Further Adventures in Shakespeare on its BA English course.

'You are advised that this play could cause offence as it references and / or deals with issues and depictions relating to bloodshed,' the warning, a copy of which has been obtained by this newspaper under Freedom of Information laws, states.

The university has also applied similar warnings to the Bard's Richard III, Twelfth Night and Titus Andronicus.

Some of Britain's biggest theatrical stars last night branded the warnings counterproductive and unnecessary. They point out that Macbeth, which was first performed in 1606, is particularly popular with schoolchildren.

Sir Ian McKellen, who starred opposite Dame Judi Dench in Sir Trevor Nunn's landmark 1976 RSC production, said warnings such as this could undermine the dramatic impact of the piece.

He said: 'My sister (a teacher) used to show Sir Trevor Nunn's TV version of the 1976 Macbeth to her teenage students.

'She'd pull down the blinds, start the video and then leave the classroom and count the minutes till she heard the first scream from within. Had the youngsters had trigger warnings in advance, the effect of the play would have been considerably diminished.'

He added: 'I remember talking to a priest who saw a number of performances of the stage production at the Stratford Other Place.

'He would hold out his crucifix throughout the performance, to protect the audience from the devilry conjured by the cast. I suppose these triggers are something similar.'

Call The Midwife star Jenny Agutter, who has acted in Shakespeare's The Tempest, King Lear and Love's Labour's Lost, said: 'I don't understand why anyone should feel warnings are necessary for Shakespeare's plays. Unless we need to be constantly warned that depicting human nature might cause offence.'

Sir Richard Eyre, the former Director of the National Theatre who has directed productions of Hamlet, Richard III and King Lear, said: 'It's completely fatuous and totalitarian to try to police people's minds with these absurd warnings. Ridiculous, contemptible, infantilising.

Presumably the people putting out the trigger warnings feel they are able to cope with the content of these plays, but weaker, younger, less intelligent people aren't.' Doctor Who star David Tennant and The Good Wife actress Cush Jumbo are due to star in a new production of Macbeth which opens in London in December. It is one of four major productions of the play set to open in the UK.

Queen's Belfast's trigger warning for Twelfth Night centres on what it calls the 'depictions relating to sexuality or gender. Warnings for Richard III and Titus Andronicus relate to depictions of disability in the former and 'race and or racism' in the latter. A spokesperson for Queen's University Belfast declined to comment.

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'[A priest] would hold out his crucifix throughout the performance, to protect the audience from the devilry conjured by the cast. I suppose these triggers are something similar.'

Very apt. It's magical thinking. Especially considering they've not only been shown to not work, they've been shown to make things worse.

Also: Spoiler, much?

[quarterpirate]

Look, I fucking loved The Flash. I loved The Flash for years. But you can not use your own eyes and brain and look at that show and be like "Yeah, this is definitely worth keeping over Black Lightning and Legends of Tomorrow" with your whole dam chest. I am genuinely upset they cancelled that dam show. I'm in shock. It was so dam good! Why?! WHY IS THR FLASH STILL GOING AND NOT MY BELOVED LEGENDS OF TOMORROW?!?

[murderoushagthesequel]

my phone is literally being SO lesbophobic rn buy only loading in indi's new wolfstar art on patreon and not pandalily