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English university adding trigger warnings to the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" (archive.ph)
posted 6 months ago by Mpetey123 6 months ago by Mpetey123 +77 / -0
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– GuestAccount69 24 points 6 months ago +24 / -0

Probably some diversity hire saw the word Lesbos and had a conniption.

Just like that time with, what was it? nail polish? that had Black/Noir/Negro on the label.

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– AccountWasFree 7 points 6 months ago +7 / -0

Don't be absurd. I believe that they got mad at Crayola for having Black/Noir/Negro on a crayon. Because these people are infants.

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– Smith1980 19 points 6 months ago +19 / -0

Sad and pathetic

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– deleted 18 points 6 months ago +18 / -0
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– TheStupidPrizeWinner 17 points 6 months ago +17 / -0

Are they really saying that their students are so wet, so feeble-minded and so generally namby-pamby that they can’t enjoy Homer?

They have named the module "Women in Homer". I have a feeling that wet, feeble-minded namby-pambies are the target demographic.

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– MAGAnic316 8 points 6 months ago +8 / -0

Homer

Jesus Christ, how long has the Simpsons been on air?!

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– TheStupidPrizeWinner 5 points 6 months ago +5 / -0

Honestly? Too long. In reality? 1989.

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– DigitalFulcrum 6 points 6 months ago +6 / -0

I'm starting to think that these trigger warnings are more for the teacher than the student.

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– Adamrises 4 points 6 months ago +4 / -0

Its a cyclical thing. Teachers feel self-important by adding them to flaunt how progressive they are, and to give themselves protection against that one student who will overreact and ruin months of everyone's lives over "distress" caused by it.

Its that same old throwaway legal shield concept, where its meaningless babble to protect against one random idiot that everyone knows will take advantage of it otherwise. And in this case, its only happening because we haven't beat these kids enough to make them not act like that.

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– when_we_win_remember 2 points 6 months ago +2 / -0

“Is the faculty of Exeter University really saying that its students are the most quivering and pathetic in the entire 28 centuries of Homeric studies?”

A fair question

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 5 points 6 months ago +5 / -0

There's been a recent translation of the Oddysey, and most readers say it's quite bad. But it was done by a woman, so big praises from the usual set

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– MargarineMongoose 4 points 6 months ago +4 / -0

If you can't handle classics like those then you don't belong in a university or the West more broadly.

Leave.

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– MonkeysUncle3 4 points 6 months ago +6 / -2

It might just have been the translation I was using, but the Iliad did convince me that Homer was a blowhard with a nipple fixation.

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– Inbredsandwich1 12 points 6 months ago +12 / -0

Historical context is important here. The breast was seen as the seat of the heart in the ancient Greek world, hence why some descriptions of emotions are described as coming from the breast. Likewise, when the Greek goddesses or other women who are considered to be the ideal of beauty come in, it was natural that their general figure would be described, which included their breasts, so it wasn't Homer pulling his inner G.R.R. Martin. When it comes to battle wounds, which is what I'm assuming you're referring to given the inclusion of nipples, Homer is known for describing realistic battle wounds, and seeing that most of the armor of the time left people open on the side of the chest near the armpits, it would make sense that most wounds would come in the breast/nipple area.

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