Anna Yang
ASA002 A02
Week 7
In the article The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, it discusses how some specific words and topics can negatively affect a person’s mind. This allows some college campus to censor by using trigger warnings for sensitive subjects so that students can avoid the discussions and prevent them from reliving a traumatic past. After reading this piece, it made me think how some trigger warnings are useful towards cases in this article that mentioned about self-help and feminist forums, where they allowed readers who suffered from traumatic sexual assault events to avoid content that might trigger flashbacks. However, there was one idea that really stuck out to me. It was about how a woman named Jeannie Suk had difficulty teaching about the topic of sexual assault because students would feel distressed and then she compared it to trying to teach “a medical student who is training to be a surgeon but also fears seeing or handling blood. I feel like this is true for most cases in which some people are sheltered and feel fear learning about topics that might make them feel uncomfortable. However, it is good to learn topics no matter how uncomfortable because it really opens your eyes to issues that everyone can open up to discuss.
Question: Is there another way we can introduce sensitive topics to people who fear distress?
References :
1. Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Jonathan. "The Coddling of the American Mind." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 20 Nov. 2015. Web. 14 May 2017.
2. "Trigger Warning." World Builder Blog. N.p., 29 June 2015. Web. 14 May 2017.
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