College student wants class' graphic novels "eradicated from the system"

[Frission]

Persepolis is a classic though! A study of an Iranian women during a time in history that many in the West are ignorant of.

What a bunch of oversensitive prudes.

 

[Queen Michael]

What a fucking idiot. If she thought it was gonna be Batman and Robin, that's just proof she's an idiot.

 

[RaikuFA]

>porn.
I've only read the last man of those listed series but I know it ain't porne.
unless you think the amazons count as snuff but otherwise no.
the only one I could imagine being close would be fun home because I know noting about it.

This person is a philistine plain and simple.

Persepolis isn't either. It's about a girl in Iran

 

[cleric of the order]

>porn.
I've only read the last man of those listed series but I know it ain't porne.
unless you think the amazons count as snuff but otherwise no.
the only one I could imagine being close would be fun home because I know noting about it.

This person is a philistine plain and simple.

Persepolis isn't either. It's about a girl in Iran

I know, I know.
Saw it a buncha times and never really thought of it much.
Though, one of my profs is Iranian/arab, think I'm going to ask him what he think about it, if he read it or anything.

 

[Fox12]

My, I hope she never reads To Kill a Mockingbird, Grapes of Wrath, or, horror of horrors, the odyssey. Those poorly written pornographic manuscripts should also be banned.

My, my. She should consider herself lucky. There are... more graphic options available.

Spoiler

 

[lacktheknack]

B... but Persepolis is great. ;_____;

 

[renegade7]

"What's that lone family and a few friends? You don't like our choice of reading material...uh...that's nice...uh...anything else? No? Bye."

Also Persepolis? Not read it but IIRC it's a highly regarded GN about a young girl growing up in revolutionary Iran. There's "pornographic" material in that?

There are a couple of implied rape scenes if my memory of the first book serves.

I don't get why all of these "This college class might traumatize me!" people are humanities majors. I'd like a few of them to sit through second semester calculus or differential equations, and then I'll be willing to listen to you talk about how you were traumatized by your course materials.

An implied rape in a comic book is what sets them off, while I still have nightmares about my first brush with Hilbert spaces.

 

[FalloutJack]

Persepolis, Fun Home, Y: The Last ManVol. 1, and The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House.

She's an idiot. Don't worry about it. I especially laugh at her digging on Sandman. Really? Messing with Neil? That's just a joke. That's 'Laugh you out of the room' comedy. Pay no attention to the dumb cluck in her cave, facing the cave wall away from the light. Maybe a little Plato will set her straight, but I doubt it.

 

[Thyunda]

"What's that lone family and a few friends? You don't like our choice of reading material...uh...that's nice...uh...anything else? No? Bye."

Also Persepolis? Not read it but IIRC it's a highly regarded GN about a young girl growing up in revolutionary Iran. There's "pornographic" material in that?

There are a couple of implied rape scenes if my memory of the first book serves.

I don't get why all of these "This college class might traumatize me!" people are humanities majors. I'd like a few of them to sit through second semester calculus or differential equations, and then I'll be willing to listen to you talk about how you were traumatized by your course materials.

An implied rape in a comic book is what sets them off, while I still have nightmares about my first brush with Hilbert spaces.

There's a fair few texts you might come across as a humanities major that might traumatise you. Writers and artists sometimes decide to put very disturbing things on paper and somehow this earns respect and attention, and so, yeah, you might wind up reading something that affects you on a deep, emotional level.
When that happens, it's customary to close the book, say "I can't read this," and let everyone else get on with it while you settle the issue in private with a tutor. They'll give you an alternative text to work on, and no more needs to be said.

Complaining like this is ridiculous, but then so is the idea that maths is traumatising. No, mate. Maths is hard. It's not going to trigger any uncomfortable memories, and it's not going to cause any PTSD (as being a private investigator can do - immersing yourself in graphic or disturbing descriptions or images for too long causes the same symptoms in people as more overt causes of the disorder do) so if you want to know why it's always humanities majors who worry about getting traumatised, it's because they're the ones who might have to read somebody's personal account of having horrible shit done to them.

 

[Smooth Operator]

A lot of people want a lot of things, why the fuck was this given the time of day?
We could just as well talk about another guy wishing for a bacon sandwich, now that is news worthy... it's not really, but it's about as news worthy as this nonsense.

 

[SecondPrize]

Ah, the perils of raising a generation of book burners. Thank Buddha that Transmetropolitan wasn't on the syllabus.

A lot of people want a lot of things, why the fuck was this given the time of day?
We could just as well talk about another guy wishing for a bacon sandwich, now that is news worthy... it's not really, but it's about as news worthy as this nonsense.

Hadn't you heard? Colleges are safe spaces now where you never have to be challenged on your beliefs in any way or exposed to any material that you'd rather not see. Hopefully the administration grows a freaking spine and backs up the professor on this one but if that were to happen it'd be the first time.

 

[major_chaos]

I don't get why all of these "This college class might traumatize me!" people are humanities majors. I'd like a few of them to sit through second semester calculus or differential equations, and then I'll be willing to listen to you talk about how you were traumatized by your course materials.

That's what makes this both funny and infuriating to me. I'm a computer forensics major, which means I need to take a bunch of investigation/criminal justice courses. Ever seen a closeup of a guy who ate the business end of a shotgun before? Ever seen the horrifically burned body of a murder victim who's killer tried to torch the evidence? I have shit like that in every third textbook. I have had people stumble out of class gagging and this silly sheltered girl is offended by Persepolis? And her father is going to pull "THINK OF THE HORROR CHILDREN MIGHT STUMBLE ON TO!!!" on goddamn Sandman? These are clearly two people who need a major dose of "grow the fuck up".

 

[happyninja42]

I don't get why all of these "This college class might traumatize me!" people are humanities majors. I'd like a few of them to sit through second semester calculus or differential equations, and then I'll be willing to listen to you talk about how you were traumatized by your course materials.

That's what makes this both funny and infuriating to me. I'm a computer forensics major, which means I need to take a bunch of investigation/criminal justice courses. Ever seen a closeup of a guy who ate the business end of a shotgun before? Ever seen the horrifically burned body of a murder victim who's killer tried to torch the evidence? I have shit like that in every third textbook. I have had people stumble out of class gagging and this silly sheltered girl is offended by Persepolis? And her father is going to pull "THINK OF THE HORROR CHILDREN MIGHT STUMBLE ON TO!!!" on goddamn Sandman? These are clearly two people who need a major dose of "grow the fuck up".

Not to mention she's in a voluntary education program. She's not required to be there taking those classes, she decided to take that major. The major doesn't have any obligation to accommodate her delicate sensibilities. She doesn't like the course subject, she can fucking transfer her major and take something soft and fluffy that won't upset her.

 

[briankoontz]

That line also makes me think the whole family is far too sheltered. Maybe she should read about some of the more horrifying realities of others' lives and be thankful she is only reading about them.

Or at least realize that the more totalitarian and "secure" the lives of anyone becomes, the more they turn to virtual violence (such as fiction within television, cinema, and video games) to remind them of what they no longer have the ability to receive, while continuing to impose violence through proxies such as the military in order to maintain their bubble.

Collectively, this is known as "happiness". Individually, called The Sopranos, Deadwood, Game of Thrones, Grand Theft Auto...

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Somebody should give this overly prude ninny Alan Moore's Lost Girls for Christmas.

I wanna see if it would make her head explode.

 

[Pseudonym]

I don't get why all of these "This college class might traumatize me!" people are humanities majors. I'd like a few of them to sit through second semester calculus or differential equations, and then I'll be willing to listen to you talk about how you were traumatized by your course materials.

An implied rape in a comic book is what sets them off, while I still have nightmares about my first brush with Hilbert spaces.

What I find weird in this regard is that humanities aren't exactly clean studies. In fact, if you want to avoid all the talk of nasty things a study in mathematics or computer science seems like a much better choice than the humanities. Art is filled with violence and nastyness aplenty as seen in the works of Jeroen Bosch, Shakespearre and Tolkien. If you study history you are quite likely to walk into some class on the holocaust, the inquisition, the thirty years war or other pleasant episodes in history when people were being tortured to death left and right. Even if you go for a philosophy bachelor you are likely to read or discuss something unpleasant. I've been in a class where 'story of the eye' was discussed. It wasn't discussed for very long and I haven't read it but everything I have heard about it sounded extremely unpleasant. In a field like mathematics you can just study functional analysis or transfinite cardinals or some such highly abstract subject. I would recommend you study that, rather than the humanities if you haven't the stomach for rape and murder.

 

[Batou667]

College: a place you go to have your existing opinions reaffirmed and to be sheltered from new material that may challenge your worldview or make you temporarily leave your comfort zone.

Wait, that doesn't sound entirely right, does it? What a sickeningly entitled generation we're raising.

 

[FalloutJack]

What a sickeningly entitled whiney, bratty, angsty, dopey generation we're raising.

Please, say what you mean! Be more in touch with your inner feelings! Don't hold back on their account!

 

[Kwak]

Complaining like this is ridiculous, but then so is the idea that maths is traumatising. No, mate. Maths is hard. It's not going to trigger any uncomfortable memories, and it's not going to cause any PTSD (as being a private investigator can do - immersing yourself in graphic or disturbing descriptions or images for too long causes the same symptoms in people as more overt causes of the disorder do) so if you want to know why it's always humanities majors who worry about getting traumatised, it's because they're the ones who might have to read somebody's personal account of having horrible shit done to them.

It's not clear what your point is here?
Is being a humanities student a pre-requisite for being a private investigator?
Or is it that humanities is a subject that has a lot of confronting material?
Then if so, why would people who are sensitive choose to be humanities majors if they can't handle the subject matter?
It doesn't make sense to defend their sensitivity by saying humanities major's deal with a lot of harsh material so that's why they're over-sensitive. Wouldn't that make them more easy-going in that regard and able to put things into perspective instead of being triggered by inconsequential stuff?
(and I'm pretty sure that poster was exaggerating the PTSD potential of abstract maths for sarcastic effect.)

 

[Thyunda]

Complaining like this is ridiculous, but then so is the idea that maths is traumatising. No, mate. Maths is hard. It's not going to trigger any uncomfortable memories, and it's not going to cause any PTSD (as being a private investigator can do - immersing yourself in graphic or disturbing descriptions or images for too long causes the same symptoms in people as more overt causes of the disorder do) so if you want to know why it's always humanities majors who worry about getting traumatised, it's because they're the ones who might have to read somebody's personal account of having horrible shit done to them.

It's not clear what your point is here?
Is being a humanities student a pre-requisite for being a private investigator?
Or is it that humanities is a subject that has a lot of confronting material?
Then if so, why would people who are sensitive choose to be humanities majors if they can't handle the subject matter?
It doesn't make sense to defend their sensitivity by saying humanities major's deal with a lot of harsh material so that's why they're over-sensitive. Wouldn't that make them more easy-going in that regard and able to put things into perspective instead of being triggered by inconsequential stuff?
(and I'm pretty sure that poster was exaggerating the PTSD potential of abstract maths for sarcastic effect.)

It's a cruel irony where people who get into humanities do it because they're sensitive and creative, and the first objective of those courses is to crush that sensitivity. Generally, humanities students are more easy-going and capable of dealing with it because they're exposed to it in the right context. There's rarely any pre-course warning for this (at least none that I've seen) and you do get people like the student in the story whose minds get totally blown by the concept. The private investigator thing was an example of how you can get almost 'second-hand PTSD' from reading too much disturbing material, and not directly connected to the humanities thing in terms of occupation, just in rough practice.