March 20, 2014

Professor Who Assaulted Pro-Life Protester to Take Her Sign Pleads Novel Defense: She Was Psychologically "Triggered" By Thoughts and Images She Didn't Agree With Politically
— Ace

Gabe mentioned this on the podcast last night.

Volokh discusses it.

First, the assault itself, as reported by the Santa Barbara Independent:

Joan said that at around 11 a.m., Dr. Mireille Miller-Young — an associate professor with UCSB’s Feminist Studies Department — approached the demonstration site and exchanged heated words with the group, taking issue with their pro-life proselytizing and use of disturbing photographs. Joan claimed Miller-Young, accompanied by a few of her students, led the gathering crowd in a chant of “Tear down the sign! Tear down the sign!” before grabbing one of the banners and walking with it across campus.

Joan said she called 9-1-1 and Thrin started filming, and that the pair followed Miller-Young and two of her students … into nearby South Hall. As Miller-Young and the students boarded an elevator, Joan said that Thrin repeatedly blocked the door with her hand and foot and that Miller-Young continually pushed her back. Miller-Young then exited the elevator and tried to yank Thrin away from the door while the students attempted to take her smartphone. “As Thrin tried to get away, the professor’s fingernails left bloody scratches on her arms,” Joan claimed. The struggle ended when Thrin relented, Miller-Young walked off, the students rode up in the elevator, and officers arrived to interview those involved.

This video shows some of the incident, but not the beginning. The video picks up after Miller-Young has already stolen Joan's sign, and walks off with the spoils of war flanked by two Harpy Robots. But later in the video, the woman recording all this on her cell phone follows them into an elevator, and that woman is pushed out of the elevator by Miller-Young.

A police report (viewable at Volokh) explains the proposed legal defense:

At about 1500 hours, I spoke to Miller-Young by telephone. I recorded my conversation with Miller-Young on my digital voice recorder.

In essence, Miller-Young told me that she felt “triggered” by the images on the posters. Miller-Young stated that she had been walking through the Arbor to get back to South Hall. Miller-Young said she was approached by people who gave her literature about abortion. Miller-Young said that she found this literature and pictures disturbing. Miller-Young said that she found this material offensive because she teaches about women’s “reproductive rights” and is pregnant. She said an argument ensued about the graphic nature of these images.

Miller-Young said that she situation became “passionate” and that other students in the area were “triggered” in a negative way by the imagery. Miller-Young said that she and others began demanding that the images be taken down. Miller-Young said that the demonstrators refused.

We actually discussed the theory of "triggering" two weeks ago on the podcast ("triggering" was the reason we innovated the Chill Groove Infotainment Format). Apparently it has become de rigeur among the academic left to include big WARNING SIGNS on all articles or images which may "trigger" an emotional response in the highly emotional. For example, an article about the practice of cutting may "trigger" a response from someone with a history of cutting; an article about rape may "trigger" a response from a rape victim.

But even feminists are complaining that this practice has been taken too far and become oppressive, as some highly-wound students are demanding "trigger" warnings even for class syllabi.

Trigger warnings in online spaces, though, have expanded widely and become more intricate, detailed, specific and obscure. Trigger warnings, and their cousin the "content note", are now included for a whole slew of potentially offensive or upsetting content, including but not limited to: misogyny, the death penalty, calories in a food item, terrorism, drunk driving, how much a person weighs, racism, gun violence, Stand Your Ground laws, drones, homophobia, PTSD, slavery, victim-blaming, abuse, swearing, child abuse, self-injury, suicide, talk of drug use, descriptions of medical procedures, corpses, skulls, skeletons, needles, discussion of "isms," neuroatypical shaming, slurs (including "stupid" or "dumb"), kidnapping, dental trauma, discussions of sex (even consensual), death or dying, spiders, insects, snakes, vomit, pregnancy, childbirth, blood, scarification, Nazi paraphernalia, slimy things, holes and "anything that might inspire intrusive thoughts in people with OCD".

...

College, though, is different. It is not a feminist blog. It is not a social justice Tumblr.

College... is, hopefully, a space where the student is challenged and sometimes frustrated and sometimes deeply upset, a place where the student's world expands and pushes them to reach the outer edges – not a place that contracts to meet the student exactly where they are.

Which doesn't mean that individual students should not be given mental health accommodations.... But generalized trigger warnings aren't so much about helping people with PTSD as they are about a certain kind of performative feminism: they're a low-stakes way to use the right language to identify yourself as conscious of social justice issues. Even better is demanding a trigger warning – that identifies you as even more aware, even more feminist, even more solicitous than the person who failed to adequately provide such a warning.

Well, sure, it's about that; it's also simply about controlling other people, asserting a privilege which creates an obligation in other people to behave in certain way.

All these different mutations of leftwing theorizing claim different bases and chains of (such as it is) reasoning, but they all are in service of the exact same conclusions:

1. Some people are privileged and have greater rights, and also have greater levels of civic/social obligations owed to them by other people.

2. Some people are disfavored and have lesser rights, and also are owed less in terms of civic/social obligations. (Apparently you can even commit a low-level assault against them if the whim strikes you, for example.)

3. The Privileged have the right and power to use the machinery of all institutions, governmental, private, or in-between, to enforce their curious and quixotic sense of reality upon the Disfavored.

It is this last one that keeps institutions from, for example, prosecuting people for filing fake, fraudulent police reports alleging "hate crimes" of one sort or another. They're entitled to do this, you see.

All of these arguments have a very simple goal: To prove that we're not equal in the eyes of the law, or, as the man once said, some of us are more equal than others.

This is the first time, though, that I've seen this new four-legs-good-two-legs-better theory called "triggering" used to justify both a physical assault as well as an assault on someone's first amendment rights.

Updates: "#BanBossy" suggested by "Seems Legit."

Brak also notes that we don't need this new word "trigger." We already have a perfectly good word for "the reason someone commits a crime." That word is "motive."


Posted by: Ace at 09:44 AM | Comments (410)
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1 Joan said that at around 11 a.m., Dr. Mireille Miller-Young — an associate professor with UCSB’s Feminist Studies Department...


Stop right there.  I've read enough.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 20, 2014 09:45 AM (8ZskC)

2 First.

And, fuck her.

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 20, 2014 09:45 AM (wtvvX)

3 Well, maybe not first.

But, the rest still applies...

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 20, 2014 09:46 AM (wtvvX)

4 Halp! I've been triggered!

Posted by: Dr. Mireille Miller-Young at March 20, 2014 09:46 AM (8ZskC)

5 Seeing Rachel Madcow triggers my gag reflex, so I guess I can see their point.

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 09:47 AM (RD7QR)

6 Ace!   You missed the best part!


She is pregnant.



Irony x 11ty7.

Posted by: EC at March 20, 2014 09:47 AM (GQ8sn)

7 Triggers don't feel.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2014 09:47 AM (Gbt28)

8 "Professor Who Assaulted Pro-Life Protester to Take Her Sign Pleads Novel Defense: She Was Psychologically "Triggered" By Thoughts and Images She Didn't Agree With Politically" Hell, if that defense works my weekends are going to be booked up from here on out.

Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2014 09:47 AM (fWAjv)

9 So, using her logic, rapists can now plead they were "triggered" by a low-cut top, and get off scot-free?

OK, then...

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 20, 2014 09:47 AM (wtvvX)

10 I can't believe they are using gun nomenclature.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 20, 2014 09:48 AM (A98Xu)

11 Triggering...another word for the Leftists trying to shut the Right up.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 20, 2014 09:48 AM (4+PCd)

12 Hyphenated, ugly, AND racist what liberal could resist the dirty three.  By all rights she should do at least 30 days in the can.  What she will get is possibly probation for 30 days and an admonition from the judge.


That is if they don't just drop all the charges after the press goes away.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 20, 2014 09:48 AM (T2V/1)

13 Oh, it looks like you did blockquote the part of her being pregnant.


I'm a non-reader.


Posted by: EC at March 20, 2014 09:48 AM (GQ8sn)

14 Professor Who Assaulted Pro-Life Protester to Take Her Sign Pleads Novel Defense: She Was Psychologically "Triggered" By Thoughts and Images She Didn't Agree With Politically Yeah she's psycho.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2014 09:48 AM (KvM9d)

15 If      triggers become a valid defense, we will have to make up thoughtcrimes to     offset them.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 20, 2014 09:48 AM (AskuI)

16 It's funny what theories a feminist libtard will suddenly embrace when it's their fucking ass on the line.

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 20, 2014 09:48 AM (wtvvX)

17 Maybe a judge will feel "triggered" to send her to 30 days in the clink.  Bitch.

oh wait.. I can say the new word from the OED.. Cunty!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 20, 2014 09:49 AM (Z7PrM)

18 Hell hath no fury like a Wymmins Studies Professor triggered by scorn.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2014 09:49 AM (Gbt28)

19 "Dr. Mireille Miller-Young — an associate professor with UCSB’s Feminist Studies Department " Stopped reading. Right. Fucking. There.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 09:49 AM (x3YFz)

20 Isn't neuroatypical shaming some sort of weasel?

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 20, 2014 09:49 AM (JtwS4)

21 So like when I view photographs of Kate Upton, and it triggers things for me, it's cool....right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2014 09:49 AM (si68n)

22 This is the first time, though, that I've seen this new four-legs-good-two-legs-better theory called "triggering" used to justify both a physical assault as well as an assault on someone's first amendment rights. Assault me and I guarantee you, you'll see some trigger play.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2014 09:49 AM (KvM9d)

23 This country(indeed,the world) has gone insane.

Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2014 09:49 AM (zqvg6)

24 When triggered one should shelter in place.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 20, 2014 09:49 AM (8ZskC)

25 Triggering done correctly will result in a smaller, thighter group. Just Sayn'

Posted by: CSMBigBird at March 20, 2014 09:50 AM (jsWA8)

26 I have taught my sons to soil themselves if they are ever accosted by a trigger.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 20, 2014 09:50 AM (+lsX1)

27 As long as the triggering isn't done to guns, it's all good.

Posted by: huerfano at March 20, 2014 09:50 AM (bAGA/)

28 Don't blame my horse, bitch.

Posted by: Zombie Roy Rogers at March 20, 2014 09:50 AM (Gbt28)

29 The "triggering" defense could be used for anything. Seems as though it's a weak minds' weak argument.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 20, 2014 09:50 AM (A98Xu)

30 670,000,092: 1 odds on who she voted for in the last presidential election. Any takers?

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 09:50 AM (x3YFz)

31 Somebody carved "SCRUNT" into the side of my Prius, officer.

Posted by: Dr. Mireille Miller-Young at March 20, 2014 09:50 AM (8ZskC)

32 Her stupid face triggered my foot to put itself up her ass, your honor!!!

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 20, 2014 09:50 AM (wtvvX)

33 "she found this literature and pictures disturbing." But the actual fucking 'act' is rainbows and puppy dogs to her I guess.

Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2014 09:51 AM (fWAjv)

34 Marxist ideology triggers me to berate stupidity and a desire to choke the living sh*t out of he or she who utters it--but then again, I have self-restraint and ability to appreciate the benefits of delayed gratification.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 20, 2014 09:51 AM (sQ0LB)

35 And as noted, if "triggering" is considered a valid thing then any speech that could remotely be considered a "trigger" could be censored (at least on campus).

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 09:51 AM (RD7QR)

36 Damn.

Posted by: soothsayer, king of the underscore at March 20, 2014 09:51 AM (GiDKn)

37 Basically they want a return to the time of Kings and Queens and peons. Of vassals and gentry. Of nobles and peasants. They can't stand the fact that the rabble is able to stand on equal footing with them.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 20, 2014 09:51 AM (da5Wo)

38 The Lone Ranger's horse is petitioning to PETA as we speak.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 09:51 AM (x3YFz)

39 Can triggering events cause micro-aggressions?

Just asking for.....ME!

Cause if the answer is "Yes", shit could get ragged around the edges the next time I interact with my liberal neighbors.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2014 09:51 AM (si68n)

40 Dr. Mireille Miller-Young seems bossy.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 20, 2014 09:51 AM (A98Xu)

41

It is about power, to dominate another person and make that person obediant.  It has been promoted by the various iterations of Leftism and ahs proven very useful as critics are silenced and policies changed to promote their supremacy over others.  Along the way, though, they forgot that any weapon can be turned on its owner, and now that this happening and it is happening to them, they are going to be in for a rude awakening.

 

On the feminist professor and the poster - typical behavior, as described above. 

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy Four Outrages, get a Rightous Indignation Free! at March 20, 2014 09:52 AM (hLRSq)

42 Careful - she's got an itchy trigger brain....

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 20, 2014 09:52 AM (wtvvX)

43 Few things I look more forward to than the disintermediation of modern Academia. Women's studies professors are the Al-Jazeera America of college campuses. They lose money but get thrown in with the bundling. Comcast sells a bundle with stuff we want -- ESPN, FoxNews, HBO titty shows -- and lots of crap we don't -- Al-Jazeera, etc. There are people out there getting fat and happy off the crappy channels and shows that nobody watches -- cause they get a small slice of that bundling pie. Same thing in academia. The profit centers are the law school, med school, business, engineering school, etc -- and then there are the women's studies and black studies and tranny studies departments sucking off that slice of the bundling pie. The more we have an a la carte academic system -- with certifications vs degrees -- the fewer tenured women's studies thugs are getting rich, fat, and happy milking the system.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 09:52 AM (ZPrif)

44 Diversity on the campus is very important.

Posted by: soothsayer, king of the underscore at March 20, 2014 09:52 AM (GiDKn)

45 Pretty sure everyone is "triggered" to commit a crime. Typically known as "motive."

Posted by: brak at March 20, 2014 09:52 AM (iEoiA)

46 40 Dr. Mireille Miller-Young seems bossy.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 20, 2014 01:51 PM (A98Xu)


Yes, she definitely needs to relax.

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 09:53 AM (RD7QR)

47 >>> Dr. Mireille Miller-Young seems bossy. hah! That's going into the headline.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2014 09:53 AM (/FnUH)

48 So is this some sort of insanity plea?

And this is a classic blaming the victim.

Posted by: Penfold at March 20, 2014 09:53 AM (Fbt5B)

49 She has a minor in Bintological Studies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 20, 2014 09:53 AM (8ZskC)

50 For some reason the "overwhelmed by my own stupidity and inability to control myself" defense rarely plays well in court.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 09:53 AM (x3YFz)

51 Why did I kill this hobo, officer? I was triggered by ace of spades.

Posted by: gwelf at March 20, 2014 09:54 AM (TJ8HB)

52 I consider Mireille Miller-Young's reflection a trigger to explode into a thousand glittering shards of glass.

Posted by: Any Nearby Mirror at March 20, 2014 09:54 AM (DLu2s)

53 The engineering school brings in the money, but the women's studies department stupidly gets to set the rules.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 09:54 AM (ZPrif)

54 Imagine that, (the truth of) abortion offends someone at an institution of "higher learning." Educate me.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 20, 2014 09:54 AM (IXrOn)

55 Just don't make me listen to anything that I don't already agree with.

Posted by: Dr. Mireille Miller-Young at March 20, 2014 09:55 AM (8ZskC)

56 People like this are the equivalent to book burners.

Posted by: soothsayer, king of the underscore at March 20, 2014 09:55 AM (GiDKn)

57 try being a conservative black female professor. Do those even exist?

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 09:56 AM (x3YFz)

58 >>>People like this are the equivalent to book burners. yup. They're actually monsters. The worst monsters don't know they're monsters. THe worst monsters have convinced themselves they're doing something righteous and holy.

Posted by: ace at March 20, 2014 09:56 AM (/FnUH)

59 Crap.
*tosses wager tickets on ground *

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at March 20, 2014 09:57 AM (nZiT2)

60 How about a nice game of solitaire?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy Four Outrages, get a Rightous Indignation Free! at March 20, 2014 09:57 AM (hLRSq)

61 For some reason the "overwhelmed by my own stupidity and inability to control myself" defense rarely plays well in court.

 

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 01:53 PM (x3YFz)

 

Oh, I don't know.  I have a feeling it will play very well in Santa Barbara.  I expect Miss Bossy Boots will take a leave of absence very shortly in order to return at a higher rate of pay.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 20, 2014 09:57 AM (zF6Iw)

62 She triggered my funny bone, but I resisted.

Posted by: Gmac at March 20, 2014 09:57 AM (4pjhs)

63 53 The engineering school brings in the money, but the women's studies department stupidly gets to set the rules.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 01:54 PM (ZPrif)


Because they yell the loudest and are the best at utilizing white guilt to their ends.

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 09:57 AM (RD7QR)

64 And when I think of pron..I think of Mireille Miller-Young.

Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2014 09:57 AM (fWAjv)

65 I was triggered by the hook nose of hebe over there.

Posted by: Eichmann at March 20, 2014 09:57 AM (kduZC)

66 God forbid pro-aborts have to see the consequences of their actions. I may trigger some people to become pro-life and that is just not tolerable to the party of death.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 20, 2014 09:57 AM (4cA6A)

67 I suppose posting Private Eight-Ball's immortal line in Full Metal Jacket about putting a nagger behind the trigger would get me banned, but that's what crossed my mind.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at March 20, 2014 09:57 AM (DLu2s)

68 Exactly. Don't blame her; she's just hating all the Haters.

Posted by: soothsayer, king of the underscore at March 20, 2014 09:58 AM (GiDKn)

69 Somebody actually knocked her up? She looks like Rocky's brotherinlaw. That's plumbing depths of no-standards sexual degeneracy

Posted by: fastfreefall at March 20, 2014 09:58 AM (kONH/)

70 Close-mindedness is a great trait in a professor.

Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2014 09:58 AM (fWAjv)

71 Oh, and Gabby Johnson says the Sheriff is a-near!

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at March 20, 2014 09:58 AM (DLu2s)

72 I've said it for years they do NOT want "justice" they want license. If I don't get to randomly trash Obama bumpe4r sticker bearing assholesfor incitement(which I don't really expect to be granted nor in a just Republic should I be) the Perfesser Princess there doesn't get to invoke the Bull rush red flag defense.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 20, 2014 09:59 AM (TE35l)

73 what, in the metric chilli-pepper covered fuck are "feminism" studies? The hell do they do? Play "locate the vagina?" What on earth do they "study?"

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 09:59 AM (x3YFz)

74 I'll bet my left nut she's a big supporter of anti-bullying laws.

Posted by: soothsayer, king of the underscore at March 20, 2014 09:59 AM (GiDKn)

75 Hmmm.  Triggers.  Maybe I'll go to the range on Sat and fire off a few hundred rounds.

Posted by: CUS at March 20, 2014 09:59 AM (wcLJG)

76 That blood trickling down Joan's arm triggered...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 20, 2014 09:59 AM (IXrOn)

77 69 Somebody actually knocked her up? She looks like Rocky's brotherinlaw. That's plumbing depths of no-standards sexual degeneracy

Posted by: fastfreefall at March 20, 2014 01:58 PM (kONH/)


I'm guessing a knockout drug, an unwilling male, and a turkey baster were involved.

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 09:59 AM (RD7QR)

78 @9 That's the "beauty" of the left's construction of privilege and society. As ace sorta notes all people are not equal. The rapist doesn't have the ability to claim they were triggered because they don't belong to the New Privileged Class. Only those who belong to a favored group get all these special and new privileges and rights. That's why various groups fight so hard to be designated a "minority" or "under-privileged" or "victimized" group because then they can just plug into the default constructed lefty narrative on oppression. If you're black it's white privilege. If you're a woman it's the patriarchy. If you're gay it's the heteronormative hierarchy. If you're fat it's the Colonel and fried chicken. It's all the exact same crap theory just applied to new groups. And if you work at it hard enough you'll get your own university department with specialized degrees in applying the template to your chosen identity group.

Posted by: gwelf at March 20, 2014 10:00 AM (nyxv/)

79 Your honor,her sexy outfit triggered my actions....

Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2014 10:00 AM (zqvg6)

80 Basically they want a return to the time of Kings and Queens and peons. Of vassals and gentry. Of nobles and peasants. They can't stand the fact that the rabble is able to stand on equal footing with them. Robin Hood & Highwaymen are gonna be a bitch to her sanity.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2014 10:00 AM (KvM9d)

81 You mean leftist moonbat has no self control? Whoda thunk?

Posted by: All Doctors prior to Barry Marshall at March 20, 2014 10:00 AM (bb5+k)

82 If I had a son, he might look like Mireille Miller-Young.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 20, 2014 10:00 AM (DLu2s)

83 The BB will be "suspended" for a week and then all will be forgiven and down the road she will get an Award. Bank on it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:00 AM (t3UFN)

84 thank god this wasn't a defense for violence back in 2000 would have ruined my honeymmon ...yeah, I need to hit the gym bad

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 20, 2014 10:00 AM (bDxDx)

85 can you picture "male" studies? You can! know why? Because football, guns, golf, boobs, bacon and beer, that's why.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:00 AM (x3YFz)

86 61 MP4, She will have endured a McCathyesque lynching after all...

Posted by: sven10077 at March 20, 2014 10:00 AM (TE35l)

87 So It seems the new narrative is "pardon me, I'm teetering on the edge of violent insanity, don't do anything to set me off. Rub my belly, give me a treat. No eye contact, and back oof slowly". The mean dog defense. New hawtness.

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (fHAT3)

88 Off Sock.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (bb5+k)

89 Somebody actually knocked her up? She looks like Rocky's brotherinlaw. That's plumbing depths of no-standards sexual degeneracy Face down, butt up, with a mouthful of pillow?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (KvM9d)

90 Miller-Young said that she found this material offensive because she teaches about women’s “reproductive rights” Kill the whole damned department. What the hell is this shit? This isn't "learning". College... is, hopefully, a space where the student is challenged and sometimes frustrated and sometimes deeply upset, a place where the student's world expands and pushes them to reach the outer edges – not a place that contracts to meet the student exactly where they are. I agree with the sentiment, but not the point. College is the place to learn that you are a speck, a crumb of angel cake (h/t Douglas Adams) in the grand vastness of the universe. You know nothing. You can never know very much. But maybe, maybe, if you work very hard, you can learn a little bit about a narrow subject. You're not special, you're not important and your clever ideas were thought a million times before by the tens of billions of people that have been on this little marble since thinking became possible.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (xSegX)

91 Well I think we all can agree that assault triggers are worse than just regular ol' triggers ...

Posted by: Mayors Against Illegal Triggers... at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (qoKTg)

92 Obviously the defense wouldn't work for every rapist,but it would work for a Kennedy.

Posted by: steevy at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (zqvg6)

93 I bet this professor is ok with the MADD drunk driving bloody ripped off limb videos we were forced to watch in school.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (4cA6A)

94 >>it's also simply about controlling other people, asserting a privilege which creates an obligation in other people to behave in certain way. I don't know. Says "I'm helpless" to me. "You control me; I don't control myself." Good luck with that...

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (SUKHu)

95 At almost every modern university, the engineering school and science departments and business/accounting departments could all break off and succeed on their own. The women's studies department would immediately go broke and cease to exist. The Diversity Nazis run the modern university, yet they contribute almost nothing to it. They are a time and money sink that have intimidated their way into a leadership position.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (ZPrif)

96 It is interesting to me that the more shrill the abortion rights activists become, the less abortions are performed and the more people start looking toward some sensible limits being set (like holding abortion facilities to the standards as other medical facilities and making abortions after 20 weeks illegal except in extreme medical cases)

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (RZ8pf)

97 I love that triggering somehow justifies the assault of a student. Hopefully a judge laughs that defense out of court, but we live in the land of idiocracy now so who knows.

Some idiot in the UK is suing the Mormon church. They are an ex member, are claiming the church is practicing fraud. Any judge with sense would have tossed this case out on two seconds, but no, it got to progress, and they even tried to summon the president of the church to testify. He wisely chose to ignore this circus and is not going.

Oh, and a transgendered woman is Washington is being tried for the serial murder of 3 prostitutes Washington state. She s using as her defense that she cannot be convicted of the crimes, because they were committed by her previous male self. She is a completely different person now, cannot be convicted the crimes of another.

Sanity is in short supply in the courts nowadays.

Posted by: LizLem at March 20, 2014 10:01 AM (BF+2f)

98 can you picture "male" studies? You can! know why? Because football, guns, golf, boobs, bacon and beer, that's why. So, every day?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2014 10:02 AM (KvM9d)

99 That store display of Ho-Ho's is a trigger to my morbid obesity nomnomnomnomnom*urp*.

Posted by: Dr. Mireille Miller-Young, Ph.D and Really Smart, Too! at March 20, 2014 10:02 AM (DLu2s)

100 Next she will argue that the pro-lifers are unPeople and not entitled to speak in the college's free speech zone.

Relatedly, if you are not in the free speech zone, do you have to pay to speak?

Posted by: Penfold at March 20, 2014 10:02 AM (Fbt5B)

101 Somebody actually knocked her up? She looks like Rocky's brotherinlaw. That's plumbing depths of no-standards sexual degeneracy

More like Karla Malden...

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 20, 2014 10:02 AM (wtvvX)

102 The wonderful thing about triggers
Is triggers are wonderful things...

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 20, 2014 10:03 AM (4WhSY)

103 Oh, and a transgendered woman is Washington is being tried for the serial murder of 3 prostitutes Washington state. She s using as her defense that she cannot be convicted of the crimes, because they were committed by her previous male self. She is a completely different person now, cannot be convicted the crimes of another. Sanity is in short supply in the courts nowadays. There's a reason there's trees and ropes.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:03 AM (x3YFz)

104 Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 01:57 PM (RD7QR) I think it's more that the engineering students are actually busy doing work, going to class, and applying for jobs.

Posted by: AMDG at March 20, 2014 10:03 AM (eFytx)

105 @102 thread winner...

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 20, 2014 10:03 AM (wtvvX)

106 can you picture "male" studies? You can! know why?

Because football, guns, golf, boobs, bacon and beer, that's why.


Gradute seminar:  Tiajuana, Mexico

Posted by: EC at March 20, 2014 10:03 AM (GQ8sn)

107 Those who can't teach, Those who can't teach, teach at a University Those who can't teach at a University, Teach Women's Studies Those who can't teach Women Studies, oh she's black? never mind

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:03 AM (t3UFN)

108 So, every day? Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2014 02:02 PM (KvM9d) ...and here's your PhD.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:04 AM (x3YFz)

109

yup. They're actually monsters. The worst monsters don't know they're monsters. THe worst monsters have convinced themselves they're doing something righteous and holy.

 

Word.

Posted by: C.S Lewis at March 20, 2014 10:04 AM (87y4e)

110 Gradute seminar: Tiajuana, Mexico Posted by: EC at March 20, 2014 02:03 PM (GQ8sn) Donkey Show is a graduate level course.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:04 AM (x3YFz)

111

Face down, butt up, with a mouthful of pillow?

 

Well, hello, sailor!

Posted by: Andi Sullivan at March 20, 2014 10:04 AM (zF6Iw)

112 So what this "feminist studies" professor is saying is that being a woman, she is prone to being overly emotional and thus not responsible for her actions. Feminist Studies 101: The hormonal and irrationality of broads.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 20, 2014 10:05 AM (SY2Kh)

113 53 The engineering school brings in the money, but the women's studies department stupidly gets to set the rules. Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 01:54 PM (ZPrif) This is not true. Schools pay $2 to get $1 back in grants. Between the sky-high salaries and tenured professors spending more than half their career without grants, it's not such a good deal for the universities. Most of these humanities departments make their budget in tuition alone. (At least, at your average state school.) Of course the "studies" departments make their bank on the phony "diversity" requirements.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 20, 2014 10:05 AM (xSegX)

114 can we cuss around here? this broad really trips my trigger to cuss.

Posted by: concrete girl at March 20, 2014 10:05 AM (LU3lG)

115 Blanco Basura at March 20, 2014 02:03 PM (4WhSY) Their pockets are full of rubbers, Their bottoms are thongs made of string ...

Posted by: From the Files of Misheard Lyrics ... at March 20, 2014 10:05 AM (qoKTg)

116 Ban Harpy Robots

Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 10:05 AM (7ObY1)

117

Because football, guns, golf, boobs, bacon and beer, that's why.

 

That is so masculonormative!

Posted by: Pajama Boy at March 20, 2014 10:05 AM (JtwS4)

118 People like this trigger my response to beat them with a bat. Severely and repeatedly.

Posted by: tu3031 at March 20, 2014 10:05 AM (nsQhi)

119 102 The wonderful thing about triggers
Is triggers are wonderful things...

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 20, 2014 02:03 PM (4WhSY)


And a bouncy, bouncy golf clap for you.

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 10:05 AM (RD7QR)

120
So..... this "trigger" thingy is an excuse for being "bossy".

Did I get that right??

Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2014 10:05 AM (nELVU)

121 I think it was a pig that said that some animals are more equal than others, but your point remains solid.


Posted by: Orwell at March 20, 2014 10:06 AM (TM1p8)

122 @103

If that is "her" best defense, "she" might want to take a plea now. Interesting argument though, a change of gender renders one not culpable for conduct engaged in prior to said change of gender.  So Bernie Madoff, could have some surgery and walk out of jail?

Posted by: Penfold at March 20, 2014 10:06 AM (Fbt5B)

123 5 Seeing Rachel Madcow triggers my gag reflex, so I guess I can see their point. Gag reflex? Haven't had one in years.

Posted by: Andi Sullivan at March 20, 2014 10:06 AM (7ObY1)

124

This is part of the nutty professors offical bio on the UCSB website

 

Areas of Study:

Pornography; Sex Work; Black Film, Popular Culture and Art; Feminist & Queer Theory; African American & African Diaspora Studies; Visual Archives; New Media; Ethnography; Oral History

Education:

PhD. New York University (American History and History of the African Dispora
M.A. New York University (American History and History of the African Dispora)
B.A. Emory University (History)

Dissertation: "A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in American Pornography."

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 20, 2014 10:06 AM (nTgAI)

125

I am triggered to the extreme whenever I read about a Faux Professor whose  teachings include black women in porn, queer studies, and of course the perpetual "War on Wymenz" crap.

 

 

Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2014 10:07 AM (G+Wff)

126

Have a friend who endures teaching as a part time/associate/whatever non-tenured prof at state and community colleges.  Have talked to his classes in the past about foreign policy stuff.  So he gets an award from a student-based group, I attend the ceremony.  Others there are getting awards in other departments.

 

One recipient is awarded for starting a "sustainability" department.  WTF?  A misused, meaningless concept gets its own "department"?  The idiots were giggling with delight at their accomplishment.  One more can't-believe-what-I-am-seeing experience.

 

Taxpayer's money is flushed down these toilets.  No, it's actually worse.  Taxpayer's money is given to stupid, racist, fanatical freaks to dumb down young people and fill their heads with idiocy.  And these people make multiples of what their predecessors made - most of whom actually were real professors and academics, who didn't ladle out insane fascist racist authoritarian nonsense to their victims.

 

Job opening right up my alley (well, one of them, one I hate but it's more of a thing in the real/semi-real world I'm stuck in now) was at the most "prestigious" university in town.  Business school (so, not TOO bad).  Nope.  Without a bit of checking, I could reasonably assume that the environment would be instantly intolerable.  First time some idiot at some staff meeting brought up "sustainability" or "diversity" or any other idiotic non-issue, I'd have nuked them.  (and this school has a "prestigious" science sector that has beclowned itself with increasingly screechy and bizarre desperation to sell the AGW nonsense, so I'm sure ridiculous unscientific economically illiterate crap would be thick in the air everywhere).  So I didn't even bother applying.  Good pay, great benefits, etc etc.  All taxpayers' money, flushed down the toilet, and doing great damage along the way.  I nearly went into academia, way back when.  Universities were, then, still intellectually serious places, not submerged in bizarre authoritarian and racist obsessions.

 

 

 

 

Posted by: non-purist at March 20, 2014 10:07 AM (afQnV)

127 114 can we cuss around here? this broad really trips my trigger to cuss. Posted by: concrete girl at March 20, 2014 02:05 PM (LU3lG) lol... I sure hope so... otherwise I've got a lot of 'splainin' to do

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:07 AM (x3YFz)

128 Areas of Study:
Pornography; Sex Work; Black Film, Popular Culture and Art; Feminist Queer Theory



What is "queer theory"?


Posted by: EC at March 20, 2014 10:07 AM (GQ8sn)

129 Trigger sound racist. How about we just call it the "TR-word" instead. K-thx.

Posted by: Roy at March 20, 2014 10:07 AM (VndSC)

130 Triggering is just a way to deny personal responsibility, license bad behavior, and blame others for your incapacity.

Posted by: --- at March 20, 2014 10:07 AM (MMC8r)

131 Haha UCSB stick to partying it's what you do best.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 20, 2014 10:08 AM (WdbF7)

132 This is part of the nutty professors offical bio on the UCSB website

Areas of Study:
Pornography; Sex Work; Black Film, Popular Culture and Art; Feminist Queer Theory; African American African Diaspora Studies; Visual Archives; New Media; Ethnography; Oral History


Education:
PhD. New York University (American History and History of the African DisporaM.A. New York University (American History and History of the African Dispora)B.A. Emory University (History)
Dissertation: "A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in American Pornography."

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 20, 2014 02:06 PM (nTgAI)

 

WTF is queer theory ?

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 20, 2014 10:08 AM (nTgAI)

133 #97 a transgendered woman is Washington is being tried for the serial murder of 3 prostitutes Washington state. She s using as her defense that she cannot be convicted of the crimes, because they were committed by her previous male self. She is a completely different person now, cannot be convicted the crimes of another. Oh for the love of...wow. Just wow. And they wonder why I say let it burn.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 10:08 AM (7ObY1)

134 I got your Trigger right here, bitch-cakes.

Posted by: Roy Rogers at March 20, 2014 10:08 AM (DLu2s)

135 Because football, guns, golf, boobs, bacon and beer, that's why. That is so masculonormative! Posted by: Pajama Boy Might want to get your testosterone count checked. You appear to be about 3 quarts low.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2014 10:08 AM (KvM9d)

136 Seeing a hyphenated name is enough of a trigger warning for me.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 20, 2014 10:08 AM (V4CBV)

137 People like this are the equivalent to book burners. Posted by: soothsayer, king of the underscore at March 20, 2014 01:55 PM (GiDKn) They are the ones who would happily volunteer, singing songs of the _______ Revolution, to drop the Zyklon-B into the chamber.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 20, 2014 10:09 AM (jCNpx)

138 So, who knocked the bitch up?

Posted by: Zombie Pug at March 20, 2014 10:09 AM (r7mtu)

139 What is "queer theory"?


Posted by: EC at March 20, 2014 02:07 PM (GQ8sn)


Really, really weird ideas. Or have I been outside of academia too long?

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 10:09 AM (RD7QR)

140 My favorite UCSB denizen from my time there in the mid 90s was the notorious bearded hobo who walked around campus with a sweatshirt that said "masturbate and be free".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2014 10:09 AM (TIIx5)

141 No, engineering schools really are profit-centers compared to humanities departments. Because they teach an actual skill valued by employers.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 10:09 AM (ZPrif)

142

the nutty professor is ugly as a box of rocks as well, surprised ?

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 20, 2014 10:09 AM (nTgAI)

143 Isn't a trigger the thing on the shoulder that goes up?

Posted by: Roy at March 20, 2014 10:09 AM (VndSC)

144 121 I think it was a pig that said that some animals are more equal than others, but your point remains solid. I don't remember if it was ever specified exactly who kept changing the commandments on the barn wall. But we can assume it was one or more of the pigs.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 10:10 AM (7ObY1)

145 Next time I'm discussing black holes, this woman is on my show. I know an expert when I see one!

Posted by: Don Lemon at March 20, 2014 10:11 AM (DLu2s)

146 What is "queer theory"? Grievance Studies, homo variety, with the usual Marxist underpinnings.

Posted by: Irate Pit Bull at March 20, 2014 10:11 AM (9eflt)

147 Sounds like people like her need to be in a safe, controlled environment -- like a ward for the criminally insane.
 
I have actually seen someone with diagnosed PTSD, a 3 tour Iraq veteran, react convulsively while cleaning out his wallet and finding sand in it. So I certainly don't dismiss that there are triggers.
 
But this woman is merely seeking to justify after the fact her douchebag actions. But I wouldn't worry about her too much; she will be lauded as a warrior for women's rights and probably run for Congress.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 20, 2014 10:11 AM (wNF3N)

148 Dr. Mireille Miller-Young's other triggers include chocolate, donuts, dudes and, of course, spiders.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 20, 2014 10:11 AM (P1WNR)

149 "BanBossy" is a trigger that should make you go and fix me up a sammich.

Posted by: Roy at March 20, 2014 10:11 AM (VndSC)

150 124 This is part of the nutty professors offical bio on the UCSB website Areas of Study: Pornography; Sex Work; Black Film, Popular Culture and Art; Feminist Queer Theory; African American African Diaspora Studies; Visual Archives; New Media; Ethnography; Oral History Education: PhD. New York University (American History and History of the African DisporaM.A. New York University (American History and History of the African Dispora)B.A. Emory University (History) Dissertation: "A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in American Pornography." Posted by: The Jackhole at March 20, 2014 02:06 PM (nTgAI) narcissistic maniac? not at all! If you ever have the joy of meeting one of these types, I encourage you to take full advantage of it and just verbally abuse them. You have to do it in a manner where you draw them in, make them feel comfortable, get them talking. It's like... a leopard playing with a mouse, but holy cow, it's so fun. It's an art, drawing them into the logic trap, but not hard, since they typically have the IQ of a spoon. You just have to be careful you don't spook them before you drop the net.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:11 AM (x3YFz)

151 Jackhole - "queer theory" is a subfield of particle theory, focusing on strange subatomic particles. And something about gravity waves.

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2014 10:11 AM (fHAT3)

152 What is "queer theory"? It's the end of America as we know it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:11 AM (t3UFN)

153 Now, now, now... let's not disparage the name Trigger.

Posted by: Gene Autry at March 20, 2014 10:11 AM (6n332)

154 Off sock

Posted by: Grey Fox at March 20, 2014 10:12 AM (9eflt)

155 Shit I may pull this Ohio State game out yet

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:12 AM (t3UFN)

156 Thus sayeth Wiki: Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself. And it goes on and on and on, ad nauseam. Basically, just stick the word "queer" every 9-10 words into any sentence and voila! Queer Theory.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 10:12 AM (7ObY1)

157 Schools pay $2 to get $1 back in grants. --- That's totally false. You seriously want to claim that, let's take NIH grants, that administrative costs are 2x the grants awarded? NIH hands out $30B in medical research grants every year. You seriously want to claim that the universities that get those grants spend $60B in administrative costs to get that $30B. That's total BS. Just not true.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 10:12 AM (ZPrif)

158 try being a conservative black female professor.

Do those even exist?

Posted by: tangonine

 

 

 

Condoleeza Rice, PolySci Professor, Stanford

Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (G+Wff)

159 Isn't any one responsible for their actions? I use to be a man but I'm a woman I'm n ot guilty. I disagree with you politically & I was triggered to beat the shit out of you. You're white, I'm black its fun to play the punch out game......... You can make fun of Christianity and other religions. I guess living by the golden rule is ok if the ends justifies the means, if not meh.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (HVff2)

160 103 Oh, and a transgendered woman is Washington is being tried for the serial murder of 3 prostitutes Washington state. She s using as her defense that she cannot be convicted of the crimes, because they were committed by her previous male self. She is a completely different person now, cannot be convicted the crimes of another. Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 02:03 PM (x3YFz) Do you have a link for that?

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (bb5+k)

161 Triggers do exist; the question is whether hyperpoliticized scrunt-muffins are misusing the concept to commit acts of heinous censorship.

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (RD7QR)

162 Somebody actually knocked her up? She looks like Rocky's brotherinlaw. you've obviously never been to an army commissary yeah, I went there

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (bDxDx)

163 These cesspools need to be walled off from society.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (oFCZn)

164

Somebody actually knocked her up? She looks like Rocky's brotherinlaw. That's plumbing depths of no-standards sexual degeneracy

 

 

 

 

 

Had  to  have  been  by  turkey  baster.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (rXcBX)

165 141 No, engineering schools really are profit-centers compared to humanities departments. Because they teach an actual skill valued by employers. Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 02:09 PM (ZPrif) In that sense, you are right. But if you look at actual budgets of departments (my school has done this) the lab sciences are bleeding money. In fact, the math department earns $3.6 million above its budget every year.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (xSegX)

166 156 Shit I may pull this Ohio State game out yet I have Ohio State in the pool, what's going on in the game?

Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (7ObY1)

167 And, next time you think life has given you a raw deal, just think of me. And turn that frown upside-down!

Posted by: Mireille Miller-Young's Turkey Baster at March 20, 2014 10:13 AM (DLu2s)

168 No matter what happens down the road, we can never stop mocking these loons. Course, "down the road" might mean a gulag.

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2014 10:14 AM (fHAT3)

169 The most appaling thing?  UCSB has a Feminist Studies Department.  Why does anything so silly, and unlikely to educate and train young people for meaningful work, even exist? Close the department and fire all the professors.  Simple.

Posted by: Geosupreme at March 20, 2014 10:14 AM (/EkKm)

170 worst foul ever

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:14 AM (t3UFN)

171 I think Belle Knox has qualified Duke for a bye to the round of 16.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2014 10:14 AM (Gbt28)

172

Screw her, she should stay home and eat ice cream and pickles and paint a bedroom pink or blue blood red.

 

I think that's more her color. 

Posted by: Insomniac at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (DrWcr)

173 169 No matter what happens down the road, we can never stop mocking these loons. Course, "down the road" might mean a gulag.

Posted by: tubal at March 20, 2014 02:14 PM (fHAT3)


Fine, we'll mock the gruel they feed us.

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (RD7QR)

174 I have Ohio State in the pool, what's going on in the game? Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 02:13 PM (7ObY1) 26 seconds tied- dayton one more foul shot

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (t3UFN)

175 170 Why does anything so silly, and unlikely to educate and train young people for meaningfulwork, even exist? somebody has to make my fries at mcdonalds

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (bDxDx)

176 The devil made me do it.

Posted by: Flip Wilson at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (KQp38)

177 Depends on the school, of course. I'm especially thinking about research universities since that's where the bulk of the scitech grant money goes.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (ZPrif)

178 dayton up 1 26 seconds ohio state has ball

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (t3UFN)

179
Queer Theory postulates that everything, is in fact..... gay.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (nELVU)

180 You know what we call people who aren't stable enough to get through day to day life without uncontrollably assaulting someone due to some neurosis?

Criminally Insane.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (0q2P7)

181 OT. Sidebar pic. David Frum ate Chris Christy!

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (/rlXg)

182 American History and History of the African Dispora

Wikipedia sez:

Dispora is a genus of algae, in the family Coccomyxaceae.

But I'll safely assume this shrill bint misspelled "diaspora" twice in her own friggin' bio.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 20, 2014 10:15 AM (FrfNj)

183 Oh for the love of...wow. Just wow. And they wonder why I say let it burn. Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 02:08 PM (7ObY1) You think that's bad? I read somewhere that some Judge ruled the taxpayers have to pay for gender reassignment surgery for these kookbags when they are in prison.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (bb5+k)

184 I'll admit, I kinda feel for the people who need trigger warning for spiders, loathe those things

Posted by: SB at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (fXi4s)

185 Condoleeza Rice, PolySci Professor, Stanford Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2014 02:13 PM (G+Wff) /makes note "One!"

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (x3YFz)

186 So the woman was triggered     by     photographic depictions of aborted babies.    Good.    It   should    fucking upset her.    I hope she stays upset,   and when she  has her baby (because someone knocked up that bitch)    I hope she gives it away to a family that actually loves it,    because   she    never will.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (4df7R)

187  Why does anything so silly, and unlikely to educate and train young people for meaningfulwork, even exist?

somebody has to make my fries at mcdonalds

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 20, 2014 02:15 PM (bDxDx)

 

 

 

And  the  Navy  needs  sailors. 

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (rXcBX)

188 Wait, did she just provide prosecutors with the case for putting her into a coo-coo house?

Posted by: Comrade J at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (6kkPP)

189

Condoleeza Rice, PolySci Professor, Stanford

Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2014 02:13 PM (G+Wff)

She's not exactly rock-ribbed conservative.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (DrWcr)

190 More support for my argument that the truly exceptional avoid college. If you can figure out a way to avoid this shit and still earn a decent income, do it.

Posted by: Lauren at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (hFL/3)

191 Of course, if I ever do a show on 'Why I'm Gay', Mireille Miller-Young would be a good guest, too. As a major reason 'Why I'm Gay', of course.

Posted by: Don Lemon at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (DLu2s)

192 133 #97 a transgendered woman is Washington is being tried for the serial murder of 3 prostitutes Washington state. She s using as her defense that she cannot be convicted of the crimes, because they were committed by her previous male self. She is a completely different person now, cannot be convicted the crimes of another. Oh for the love of...wow. Just wow. And they wonder why I say let it burn. Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 02:08 PM (7ObY1) I read that. How any credence can be lent to that is simply insane. There is no other way back to sanity, but to let it all fall down.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 20, 2014 10:16 AM (jCNpx)

193 This reminds me of the old National Lampoon magazine. They once ran an "elderly" issue. The funniest bit was Scary Stories for the Elderly with Heart Problems. It went something like, "Ethel crept down the hall in the dark not knowing that in a few moments she would be suddenly frightened when her husband came out of the kitchen with a flashlight. She stepped carefully trying not to press on the creaking floor. Her heart raced, but not as fast as it would in a few moments when she would be really frightened for a brief moment." And on and on. Triggerless writing style.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (TQUPg)

194 There was an article about the UCSB film program where all these Marxist courses were mandatory. The mandatory courses were taught by a couple of dykes.

Posted by: Zombie Pug at March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (r7mtu)

195 170 The most appaling thing? UCSB has aFeminist Studies Department. Why does anything so silly, and unlikely to educate and train young people for meaningfulwork, even exist?Close the department and fire all the professors. Simple. Posted by: Geosupreme at March 20, 2014 02:14 PM (/EkKm) It's a jobs program for aggrieved minorities and other malcontents.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (oFCZn)

196 158 Schools pay $2 to get $1 back in grants. --- That's totally false. You seriously want to claim that, let's take NIH grants, that administrative costs are 2x the grants awarded? NIH hands out $30B in medical research grants every year. You seriously want to claim that the universities that get those grants spend $60B in administrative costs to get that $30B. That's total BS. Just not true. Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 20, 2014 02:12 PM (ZPrif) I was thinking about applying for one. You see, I'm currently not curing cancer faster and cheaper than the medical profession is currently not curing cancer. But seriously, you argued "engineering". They plumb the depths of the NSF usually. I understand the corrupt NIH jackpot scheme, though. My school doesn't have a med school.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (xSegX)

197 can you picture "male" studies? You can! know why?

Because football, guns, golf, boobs, bacon and beer, that's why.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 02:00 PM (x3YFz)


Heteronormative Male Studies (HMS) Curriculum:


HMS 101 The Essence of Straight Maledom: This introductory course will focus on general Male Theory, to include Principles of Flatulence, The History and Chemistry of Beer, and Basic Pickup Line Construction.  This course is a prerequisite for HMS 201 He Who First Smelt It, Dealt It: The History and Protocols of Locker Room Etiquette.



Feel free to add on, y'all.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (L8r/r)

198 177 The devil made me do it.

Posted by: Flip Wilson at March 20, 2014 02:15 PM (KQp3


Random tangent: When I was 7 or 8 somebody gave me a Flip Wilson doll. When you pulled the cord it said either "I smell a rat and the wind is coming from your direction" or "The devil made me do it!" What can I say, it was the '70s.

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (RD7QR)

199 188 And the Navy needs sailors. ouch

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (bDxDx)

200 I think they should accept her defense and put her in a mental hospital.  And throw away the key.

Posted by: Adjoran at March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (QIQ6j)

201 So the next time I am say at a Pro Life rally and someone starts chanting hail sa.....I can beat the shit out of them. Cool

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (/rlXg)

202 This is the first time, though, that I've seen this new four-legs-good-two-legs-better theory called "triggering" used to justify both a physical assault as well as an assault on someone's first amendment rights. I thought I was very familiar with the whole triggering folderol , including what you must include as triggers, based on my participation in various and sundry online writing groups. While the whole triggering thing can be taken to ludicrous extremes, I do not particularly care if people in a forum decide that hey I think you should tell people that this thing contains that topic so they can avoid it. The flip side to that is that if a person ignores the trigger warning and freaks out, you can point out that hey, you idiot, you did it to yourself.
The concept that trigger warnings need to be made for, well, reality is patently absurd. This is where the concept of being polite, for example, hey, please note that this class involves viewing of photographs of dead bodies, is turned into an iron clad rule of you can't ever do something that upsets me ever. Part of becoming an adult involves learning how to deal with the various and sundry things that upset you during the day. Demanding a warning label on everything is childish and is part of the whole nummification of society that ace has discussed before. If you are so fragile that you cannot go out into the world without being warned of what's behind every corner, then do us all a favor and stay inside. Oh ffs, I just realized that the whole calorie count on foods is a warning for those with eating disorders. I should note that I merely presume each and every link here has an inherent warning for spiders.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 10:18 AM (VtjlW)

203 181 You know what we call people who aren't stable enough to get through day to day life without uncontrollably assaulting someone due to some neurosis? Criminally Insane. Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at March 20, 2014 02:15 PM (0q2P7) Where I'm from, we call them that little slightly out of place mound of dirt that looks like a hole was recently dug there.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:18 AM (x3YFz)

204 I'll admit, I kinda feel for the people who need trigger warning for spiders, loathe those things

Posted by: SB at March 20, 2014 02:16 PM (fXi4s)



I don't   need a trigger warning.    I just   don't like it when people try to    trick me into clicking   on spider-related links!



*looks at maddogg*   They know who they are.  




Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:18 AM (4df7R)

205 ohio state up 1 dayton has ball with 10 seconds to go

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:18 AM (t3UFN)

206 So the woman was triggered by photographic depictions of aborted babies. Good. It should fucking upset her. I hope she stays upset, and when she has her baby (because someone knocked up that bitch) I hope she gives it away to a family that actually loves it, because she never will.

----

You assume too much.

Posted by: Turkey Basters Union Local #102 at March 20, 2014 10:18 AM (nELVU)

207 Do you have a link for that? Posted by: D-Lamp at March 20, 2014 02:13 PM (bb5+k WZ had it, Rush talked about it.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 20, 2014 10:18 AM (HVff2)

208 There was an article about the UCSB film program where all these Marxist courses were mandatory. The mandatory courses were taught by a couple of dykes.

Posted by: Zombie Pug at March 20, 2014 02:17 PM (r7mtu)

 

I stuck my finger in one of those once.

Posted by: Little Dutch Boy at March 20, 2014 10:18 AM (DrWcr)

209 Cripes. This fucking country has gotten so fucking trivial I wish Putin would go ahead and nuke the shit out of us. Hell, when the roach problem gets this bad it's just better to burn the fucking house down and rebuild.

Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2014 10:19 AM (xWW96)

210 206 ohio state up 1 dayton has ball with 10 seconds to go streaming it now...

Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 10:19 AM (7ObY1)

211 when i asked if i could cuss i was waiting for someone to say, "fire away!" you guys are slipping.

Posted by: concrete girl at March 20, 2014 10:19 AM (LU3lG)

212 It's not my fault!!

Posted by: fluffy at March 20, 2014 10:19 AM (Ua6T/)

213 One of my triggers are fat women teaching African American African Diaspora Studies.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 20, 2014 10:19 AM (P1WNR)

214 shit dayton by 1

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:20 AM (t3UFN)

215 205 I just don't like it when people try to trick me into clicking on spider-related links! oh come on, its like the fart game in bed everyone likes the fart game (hmmmm, have done that in a while...may have to hook-up T tonight)

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 20, 2014 10:20 AM (bDxDx)

216
Why does anything so silly, and unlikely to educate and train young people for meaningfulwork, even exist?

somebody has to make my fries at mcdonalds

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 20, 2014 02:15 PM (bDxDx)








There's always lucrative careers in corporate Human Resource Departments.

Seriously, LOTS of Women's Studies majors in HR.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2014 10:20 AM (TIIx5)

217 Goodbye Ohio State

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 20, 2014 10:20 AM (WdbF7)

218 Dayton Bitches!!

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 20, 2014 10:20 AM (P1WNR)

219 ReComment:

Physics says a black hole has infinite gravity and a radius of exactly zero.

Black holes have mass, spin and charge, that's it.
The singularity is a point but the event horizon (distance past which everything falls forever) has radius (IDRC if it' can be non-spherical from the spin?). They also have a Roche limit which is the closest you can go before gravitational tides tear you apart.

An MBH with an event horizon large enough to swallow a plane whole in one 500 mph pass would have catastrophic effects anywhere near Earth let alone swooping thru the atmosphere.

Also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holes_in_fiction

Brin's Earth might be the one where the MBH drills a plane.  It's great but envirotardy.

http://tinyurl.com/p5vlesw

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 20, 2014 10:20 AM (DL2i+)

220 So long OSU, Roll Tide...

Posted by: CSMBigBird at March 20, 2014 10:21 AM (jsWA8)

221 Secretariat has been triggered by Jews telling the truth. Secretary of State John Kerry called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning to protest insults the Israeli defense minister directed at the Obama administration this week, the State Department said. It seems the New said that US foreign policy was weak and Israel can't rely on the U.S. to prevent a nuclear Iran. Them's fighting words!

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2014 10:21 AM (MC23X)

222 (scratching right index finger)

Posted by: Soona at March 20, 2014 10:21 AM (SxpmN)

223

MWR

Ha! I got you didn't I?

Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2014 10:21 AM (xWW96)

224 I just don't like it when people try to trick me into clicking on spider-related links!
Did you ever look at my spider related link, Oh Dainty one? It was mostly hidden in a flower.

Posted by: fluffy at March 20, 2014 10:21 AM (Ua6T/)

225 If someone is an asshole to me, that "triggers" me to be an asshole right back.


Posted by: West at March 20, 2014 10:21 AM (1Rgee)

226 he largest doctors group in the country is raising alarm that an obscure ObamaCare rule could stick them with the tab for patients who skip out on paying their premiums. The American Medical Association, which originally supported the Affordable Care Act, warned the rule could pose a "significant financial risk" for doctors and hospitals, and on Wednesday blasted out guidelines to help members try and avoid those costs. At issue is a 90-day "grace period" which lets patients who are not paying their premiums keep coverage for 90 days before it can be canceled. Under the rule, insurers are responsible for paying any claims during the first month of that period -- but not necessarily for any claims during the final 60 days. "Managing risk is typically a role for insurers, but the grace period rule transfers two-thirds of that risk from the insurers to physicians and health care providers," AMA President Ardis Dee Hoven said in a statement. YOU supported this shit assholes. Now suffer

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2014 10:21 AM (t3UFN)

227 The irony of Professor Hypocrisy's sensitivity to the imagery of dead babies because sheÂ’s a pregnant abortion advocate makes me chortle - the point got through. Reality has a conservative bias, you know?

Posted by: Jazz at March 20, 2014 10:21 AM (roO4n)

228 They should be forbidden from using that violent reference "triggering". What's wrong with them? Re-ed camps for them, now!

Posted by: Meremortal at March 20, 2014 10:22 AM (1Y+hH)

229 The other day, one of you Morons posted a "Boobies are wonderful things" riff on the Tigger meme.

Anybody know who did it, and where it is?

I was laughing so hard, I forgot to save it.
But it was beautiful.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2014 10:22 AM (si68n)

230 "Trigger" that's just a claim to blame someone outside of themselves.

Posted by: tasker at March 20, 2014 10:22 AM (RJMhd)

231 (scratching right index finger) Did someone say trigger?

Posted by: Soona at March 20, 2014 10:22 AM (SxpmN)

232 WZ had it, Rush talked about it. Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 20, 2014 02:18 PM (HVff2) Thanks. Neither of those is on my regular viewing rounds, though I visit WZ occasionally.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 20, 2014 10:22 AM (bb5+k)

233 so if I see a hippy burning a flag I can shit stomp him up and down the street? sweet

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 20, 2014 10:22 AM (bDxDx)

234 The concept that trigger warnings need to be made for, well, reality is patently absurd. This is where the concept of being polite, for example, hey, please note that this class involves viewing of photographs of dead bodies, is turned into an iron clad rule of you can't ever do something that upsets me ever.



And my response to that     type of     person would be,  "You're in a    criminal forensics   class/Holocaust seminar/Virulent Pathogen  Epidemiology course.         Did   you think you'd be able to make it through this class WITHOUT       seeing pictures of dead bodies?       Do you understand words?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:23 AM (4df7R)

235 Fucking Ohio State Fuckeyes. Fuck fuckity fuck fuck.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 10:23 AM (7ObY1)

236 Trigger was a damn fine horse.

Posted by: Roy Rogers at March 20, 2014 10:23 AM (MNq6o)

237 Or some PTSD... because trigger sounds like....

Posted by: tasker at March 20, 2014 10:23 AM (RJMhd)

238 Pictures of Emma Stone are a trigger for me. BRB

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 20, 2014 10:23 AM (nTgAI)

239 HMS 101 The Essence of Straight Maledom: This introductory course will focus on general Male Theory, to include Principles of Flatulence, The History and Chemistry of Beer, and Basic Pickup Line Construction. This course is a prerequisite for HMS 201 He Who First Smelt It, Dealt It: The History and Protocols of Locker Room Etiquette. Feel free to add on, y'all. Posted by: Country Singer at March 20, 2014 02:17 PM (L8r/r) heh... it's a great course of study, but as men we kinda pick it all up by 12 years of age anyway. No advanced studies necessary. Once that first curly sprouts on your nuts, the universe imparts all male wisdom. it's how we know to nod *up* at each other as a sign of respect/acknowledgment. How we know that if you call your best friend a "fag" it's a term of endearment, but if you call anyone else a "fag" it's an insult. How you instinctively know how to adjust Jim & the Twins while wearing a cup of a football field (ever seen a cup? the structure doesn't appear to look right, but it is).

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:23 AM (x3YFz)

240 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 02:18 PM (VtjlW) That is a lucid, intelligent, well thought-out objection. Overruled.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 20, 2014 10:23 AM (da5Wo)

241 speaking of triggers, giving a AR class today should my sidearm be a .40 or .45 choices, choices

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 20, 2014 10:23 AM (bDxDx)

242 Well if she's pregnant it was either a drunk blind guy or a turkey baster and her "life partner".

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2014 10:24 AM (/rlXg)

243 Dayton just triggered a lot of crying on the Ohio State campus.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 20, 2014 10:24 AM (P1WNR)

244
One thing funny about UCSB, the PoliSci department was heavy on NeoCons back in the 90s. Not the stupid leftist trope of NeoCon = Joo, but NeoCon = Reformed Trotskyist Commie.


Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2014 10:24 AM (TIIx5)

245 When I see a pinch-faced feminist yowling inanities, I feel triggered to paddle her face with my cock.

Posted by: Fritz at March 20, 2014 10:24 AM (UzPAd)

246 MWR
Ha! I got you didn't I?

Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2014 02:21 PM (xWW96)



I admit NOTHING.



Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:25 AM (4df7R)

247
I will use this triggering defense if I ever meet say Bill Maher.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 20, 2014 10:25 AM (0Kobm)

248 The really stupid thing about this, the protest was taking place in a section of the campus designated for "Free Speech".  Meaning it was the area for protests, an area to allow your freak flag to fly.  And the teacher denied the pro-life protesters that right.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 20, 2014 10:25 AM (6n332)

249 That bossy bitch probably took the signs as burned them as an offering to Molech.

Posted by: Dang at March 20, 2014 10:25 AM (MNq6o)

250 She's using the Wesley Defense:

"Jenny? Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson and...I would never hurt you. You know that."

Posted by: Max Entropy at March 20, 2014 10:26 AM (cgtTL)

251 250 The really stupid thing about this, the protest was taking place in a section of the campus designated for "Free Speech". Meaning it was the area for protests, an area to allow your freak flag to fly. And the teacher denied the pro-life protesters that right. Posted by: Darth Randall at March 20, 2014 02:25 PM (6n3 ************ So it's a known trigger zone.

Posted by: tasker at March 20, 2014 10:26 AM (RJMhd)

252 I will use this triggering defense if I ever meet say Bill Maher. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 20, 2014 02:25 PM (0Kobm) Nah. I'll gladly take the 30 days in county for that one.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:26 AM (x3YFz)

253 Have you ever been in a line of traffic which slows to a crawl as it goes past a gruesome traffic accident? In my neck of the woods they call it a 'gaper block'. It happens every time. People want to see, then they act revolted by the sight. What the hell did they expect to see? Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 20, 2014 02:24 PM (oGrEy) My father in law, an ex Evil LEO, refers to it as "eye fucking the scene".

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 20, 2014 10:26 AM (da5Wo)

254 Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 02:23 PM (x3YFz)


LOL, oh I'm fully aware that we men pretty much have this sewn up by at least 14 (some people are just slow).  Cups?  Yeah, I got very familiar with one after my Dixie Youth coach decided I might be a good catcher when I was 10.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 20, 2014 10:26 AM (L8r/r)

255 But later in the video, the woman recording all this on her cell phone follows them into an elevator, and that woman is pushed out of the elevator by Miller-Young.



BTW, ace, that wasn't a woman    recording all this and getting assaulted.   It was a 16 year old girl.     Not a kid,   but also not an adult yet.    Which makes this... CREATURE'S actions that much more reprehensible.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:27 AM (4df7R)

256

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 20, 2014 02:13 PM (bb5+k)

Here's a link for you. Was also on Rush. http://preview.tinyurl.com/mq3xjvn

And apparently "Orange is the new black" has a transgendered female prisoner, her inability to get her hormones in prison is a plotline. So maybe covering transgendered inmates surgeries now is because of that? The overseers of the priosn saw it and had a sad.

Posted by: LizLem at March 20, 2014 10:27 AM (BF+2f)

257 Trigger? So this woman is unable to control her emotions? We have a words for that emotional state: childhood.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 10:27 AM (gBnkX)

258 Brooklyn Decker triggered................


forgot what I was going to say.  Let's try it again, with Miranda Kerr


Posted by: Jules at March 20, 2014 10:27 AM (omBWL)

259 Have you ever been in a line of traffic which slows to a crawl as it goes past a gruesome traffic accident? In my neck of the woods they call it a 'gaper block'. It happens every time. People want to see, then they act revolted by the sight. What the hell did they expect to see? Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 20, 2014 02:24 PM (oGrEy) ***************** Hmmm.... "rubber necking".

Posted by: tasker at March 20, 2014 10:27 AM (RJMhd)

260 So this professor admits that liberalism is a mental disorder/injury?

Posted by: Phelps at March 20, 2014 10:27 AM (wdjv2)

261 Have you ever been in a line of traffic which slows to a crawl as it goes past a gruesome traffic accident? In my neck of the woods they call it a 'gaper block'.



We call it   "rubber necking."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:28 AM (4df7R)

262 Nah. I'll gladly take the 30 days in county for that one. Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 02:26 PM (x3YFz) I have resolved myself to pound his face should I ever get close enough. I personally think it is our duty to beat up some of these asswipes for not keeping a civil tongue in their head.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 20, 2014 10:28 AM (bb5+k)

263 Yeah, I got very familiar with one after my Dixie Youth coach decided I might be a good catcher when I was 10. Posted by: Country Singer at March 20, 2014 02:26 PM (L8r/r) LOL... I'd forgotten! I played 3d. the one... ONE day I didn't wear my cup our catcher was sick so I was the backup. Low pitch. 'nuff said. it'll bring a tear to your eye.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:29 AM (x3YFz)

264 What you call the "disfavored", correctly thinking persons call racists, sexists, homophobes, gun nuts, Xtianists, and other sorts of haters who need to be driven from public life for the greater good of society.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at March 20, 2014 10:29 AM (Hvsud)

265 I hate iPhone commenting. It just triggers something in me.

Posted by: Soona at March 20, 2014 10:29 AM (SxpmN)

266 DAYTON BEATS OSU!!!!

SUCK IT, BUCKEYES!!!!!!

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 20, 2014 10:30 AM (wtvvX)

267 Didn't read the thread yet so sorry someone beat me to it: "triggering" as a defense is a fancy form of "she was asking for it"

Posted by: votermom at March 20, 2014 10:30 AM (GSIDW)

268 These same people have no problem showing dead and mangled Palestinian children at their "proselytizing" events, what's the problem here? Rhetorical question.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 10:30 AM (gBnkX)

269 Weasel Zippers is great...if you want content.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2014 10:30 AM (Gbt28)

270 Posted by: LizLem at March 20, 2014 02:27 PM (BF+2f) The Insane are running the asylum nowadays.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 20, 2014 10:30 AM (bb5+k)

271 So if I see a COEXIST bumper sticker and I'm "triggered" to smash their windshield with a Louisville Slugger, I can get off scot-free, right? No? Because UNperson? Thought so.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 10:30 AM (7ObY1)

272 So she was triggered by reality being contrary to her thoughts and politics? Ya think this will be any kind of eye opener? Or is reality just a protected personal choice at this point? Maybe we need legislation to make ultrasound machines show only a standard clump of cells if the mother chooses that type of reality. Triggers can be dangerous; see 'guns'.

Posted by: Justamom at March 20, 2014 10:31 AM (Sptt8)

273 OSU is out???   OSU is out??????

Posted by: CNN guy, in a semi-deja vu at March 20, 2014 10:31 AM (AskuI)

274 Trigger? So this woman is unable to control her emotions?


We have a words for that emotional state: childhood.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 02:27 PM (gBnkX)




Here's what I'm looking forward to.


1) The    creature claims she was triggered by seeing images she didn't want to see.   Well, tough titty,  shitty,   it was in the section of campus specifically designated for this kind of thing.  Next time,  cover your eyes.


2)  So the creature will then claim that she was triggered by seeing these images because she is pregnant,    and   seeing images of butchered babies was emotionally traumatizing.    Which will then bring out the feminazis,   all of whom will demand she retract that statement because it implies that pregnant women are hormonal basketcases who are liable to snap at any minute,   which in turn will lead to implications that women IN GENERAL are   emotional    basketcases, and  WAH WAH WAH   *tampon earrings*   HEAR US ROAR!



I will love every g-ddamn second of it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:31 AM (4df7R)

275 Let me see if I understand the way this defense works.

Let's say that some feminist starts babbling about how all PIV sex = rape, and I snap and punch her in the face. My defense is then that she did not provide me any warning that she was going to be babbling this nonsense at me, and so her words triggered my response. So, it's all her fault and I walk.

I can work with that. Let's do it.


Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 20, 2014 10:31 AM (IN7k+)

276 I see in the police report that the word "passionate" came up. Good to know that crimes of passion are now allowable.

Posted by: Orenthal James Simpson, NV Inmate #1027820 at March 20, 2014 10:32 AM (XrGnJ)

277 Isn't 'trigger' a really bad scary gun word? Just sayin.

Posted by: Guido 'last of Guido tribe' at March 20, 2014 10:32 AM (15qFH)

278 jabberwockie
jabberwockie
jabberwockie

Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2014 10:32 AM (nELVU)

279 273 So if I see a COEXIST bumper sticker and I'm "triggered" to smash their windshield with a Louisville Slugger, I can get off scot-free, right? No? Because UNperson? Thought so. Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 02:30 PM (7ObY1) We chatted about this a wee bit back. Here's your fix: http://tinyurl.com/nqurbng wife has one. The blue t-shirt. they also make a nice bumper sticker.

Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2014 10:33 AM (x3YFz)

280 One thing funny about UCSB, the PoliSci department was heavy on NeoCons back in the 90s. Not the stupid leftist trope of NeoCon = Joo, but NeoCon = Reformed Trotskyist Commie.


Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2014 02:24 PM (TIIx5)


I noticed that use of that term had died down, but has made a resurgence over the last several months.  And that it is often misused by juiceboxers who have no idea what a NeoCon actually is, just that it's supposed to be bad.  My theory is that the only other thing that they can mentally associate with "neo" is NeoNazis, so there is some sort of moral equivalence to them.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 20, 2014 10:33 AM (L8r/r)

281 279 Isn't 'trigger' a really bad scary gun word? Just sayin. Posted by: Guido

I think trigger is a trigger word.

Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2014 10:33 AM (igJW1)

282 Nazi paraphernalia? They don't mind the ideology, just don't leave any trinkets around that someone might recognize.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 20, 2014 10:33 AM (ZshNr)

283 271 Weasel Zippers is great...if you want content. ...if you want dozens of photoshopped pictures of Mooch's head on a gorilla's body, the WZ comments are the place to go. Personally, I find their commenters, for the large part, childish and silly. I mean, in a bad way. Not like us. Plus, they don't have the sense of humor that the Horde has. I mentioned Hate Sammiches there and got attacked as a Liberal. They don't "get" sarcasm. Humph. Me a LIberal. Them's fightin' words.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 10:33 AM (7ObY1)

284 So students are paying thousands to get a useless education from this useless twit. If her students ever wake up their multiple epiphanies could trigger a beatdown.

Posted by: northernlurker at March 20, 2014 10:33 AM (Xmw9g)

285 I think trigger is a trigger word. Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2014 02:33 PM (igJW1) Good point...I shoulda caught that.

Posted by: Guido 'last of Guido tribe' at March 20, 2014 10:34 AM (15qFH)

286 I have resolved myself to pound his face should I ever get close enough.

I personally think it is our duty to beat up some of these asswipes for not keeping a civil tongue in their head.


Posted by: D-Lamp at March 20, 2014 02:28 PM (bb5+k)



Just this morning as I was driving in to work,   I   was   fantasizing about what I would say to Amanda Marcotte   after   brutally punching every tooth out of her    skanky head.    It   was wonderful.    If I were a smoker I'd ahve needed a cigarette.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:34 AM (4df7R)

287 Do people really buy this idiocy?
I swear, Ø-Merica's collective IQ has dropped at least 40 or 60 points since the Clinton era.

Posted by: backhoe at March 20, 2014 10:34 AM (ULH4o)

288 271 Weasel Zippers is great...if you want content.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2014 02:30 PM (Gbt2


Well, it's really just links and excerpts. It's nice to get extensive analysis like ace and the cobs provide.

Posted by: joncelli at March 20, 2014 10:35 AM (RD7QR)

289 Reminds me of a comment I saw over at WaPo a few days ago where someone said that referring to a fetus as a baby is "inflammatory language. Yesterday I was arguing with someone who said that when I claimed he had "mischaracterized" and made "false" statements that I was using "inflammatory" language despite the fact that I demonstrated how he had done so. I guess this is the latest trend by the left. Say something they don't like and their inability to control their emotions is suddenly your fault.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 10:36 AM (gBnkX)

290 OSU is out??? OSU is out?????? Posted by: CNN guy, in a semi-deja vu at March 20, 2014 02:31 PM (AskuI) yep, not much of an upset at all really. this wasn't the OSU team of recent years.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 20, 2014 10:36 AM (XvrTA)

291 For some reason the "overwhelmed by my own stupidity and inability to control myself" defense rarely plays well in court. - Commonly known as the bitch deserved it defense.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2014 10:36 AM (MC23X)

292 I need a trigger warning for vagina dentata  associated with these harpies.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2014 10:37 AM (BAS5M)

293 and is pregnant


Yeah, there's your motive right there.  Prego-brain. 

I know a few women whose pregnancies weren't diagnosed by an obstetrician.  They were diagnosed by a psychiatrist.

Posted by: Phinn at March 20, 2014 10:37 AM (i5GO4)

294 So, if I get triggered, commit mass murder and quickly get a sex change, I'm golden, right?

Posted by: Meremortal at March 20, 2014 10:37 AM (1Y+hH)

295 Say something they don't like and their inability to control their emotions is suddenly your fault.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 02:36 PM (gBnkX)

 

Sounds like my ex-wife.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 20, 2014 10:37 AM (DrWcr)

296 Sounds like thee people need to take their meds or be institutionalized. They defend their actions the way we defend a wild animal, and we expect stupid stunts around a lion, for example, might lead to more than a purr. So we put the lion in a cage or set it out in the wilderness where it doesn't have to be bothered by the rest of us.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at March 20, 2014 10:37 AM (Djwm9)

297 And by the way, trigger rhymes with a big no-no word

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at March 20, 2014 10:37 AM (dTh2r)

298 That is a lucid, intelligent, well thought-out objection. Overruled. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 20, 2014 02:23 PM (da5Wo) I'm sitting hear listening to what you say and nah, bro.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 10:37 AM (VtjlW)

299 How would the tubby hyphened named scrunt know she was pregnant?

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2014 10:37 AM (/rlXg)

300 Don't worry. All this nonsense will go away when the Burning Times begin.

Posted by: rickl at March 20, 2014 10:37 AM (zoehZ)

301 That said, people who post disgusting images without accompanying warnings are lowlife scum with problems. I don't care what point you're trying to make, not everyone wants to see that ****.

Posted by: Mega, AoS Commenter of the Millennium at March 20, 2014 10:38 AM (hHFOx)

302 263 Have you ever been in a line of traffic which slows to a crawl as it goes past a gruesome traffic accident? In my neck of the woods they call it a 'gaper block'<<<< In queer theory, a gaper block is a butt plug.

Posted by: Roy at March 20, 2014 10:38 AM (VndSC)

303 Un game to start the tourney off with. Blowout on one of the other channels. Pitt vs. Colorado.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 20, 2014 10:38 AM (ZshNr)

304 What really irritates me is that nothing will fucking happen to her. NOTHING. She won't get a felony record. She won't lose her job. She's utterly unrepentant and the judge won't take that into account. It saddens me to say this: I increasingly hate what this nation has become. If I could get Swiss citizenship I would take it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately (for me but not Switzerland), it actually has strict standards for citizenship (as well it should).

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 20, 2014 10:38 AM (LiHKo)

305 Fun.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 20, 2014 10:39 AM (ZshNr)

306 297 So, if I get triggered, commit mass murder and quickly get a sex change, I'm golden, right? Posted by: Meremortal at March 20, 2014 02:37 PM (1Y+hH) ************ Only in the shower.

Posted by: Bubba Cell Block #6 at March 20, 2014 10:39 AM (RJMhd)

307 Funny how these so-called "elites" and "intellectuals" are completely ruled by their emotions when faced with intellectual dissent.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 10:39 AM (gBnkX)

308 Sounds like thee people need to take their meds or be institutionalized. They defend their actions the way we defend a wild animal, and we expect stupid stunts around a lion, for example, might lead to more than a purr. So we put the lion in a cage or set it out in the wilderness where it doesn't have to be bothered by the rest of us. Posted by: Guy Fawkes at March 20, 2014 02:37 PM (Djwm9) Wait, I'm allowed to set lions on people?


Why does no one ever tell me these things?
brb

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 10:39 AM (VtjlW)

309 Someone tries to snatch a sign out of my hand, they're going to trigger a violent smacking reflex I have. Ms. Hypenated Witch would likely trigger a recurring blast of them.

Posted by: Miss Scarlett at March 20, 2014 10:39 AM (uDAyD)

310

  I read somewhere that some Judge ruled the taxpayers have to pay for gender reassignment surgery for these kookbags when they are in prison. 

 

 

Somewhere. Yeah.  Three guesses.

Posted by: Massachusetts at March 20, 2014 10:40 AM (JtwS4)

311 Humph. Me a LIberal. Them's fightin' words. Posted by: Citizen X at March 20, 2014 02:33 PM (7ObY1) I got called a 'troll' here by a newbie when I used my "with 75% more hate" nic trailer. Oh, and a 'shit weasel' which I laughed about for weeks about a year ago; by a regular when we mixed it up. Made it part of my nic. Except now Ms. Guido calls me that. Hate is much more fun here. lol.

Posted by: Guido 'last of Guido tribe' at March 20, 2014 10:40 AM (15qFH)

312 What really irritates me is that nothing will fucking happen to her. NOTHING.
Posted by: Naes1984

Probably not even an anger management class.

Let alone a crunt punt

Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2014 10:40 AM (igJW1)

313 What really irritates me is that nothing will fucking happen to her. Posted by: Naes1984 at March 20, 2014 02:38 PM (LiHKo) They already have. She's humiliated the university and made national news. Don't tell me that doesn't fuck with a person.

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at March 20, 2014 10:40 AM (dTh2r)

314 I think the good professor has overdosed on sensitivity training. Maybe we can have her meet up with Cher.  They can take turns playing the scene from Moonstruck where Cher slaps someone and says "Snap out of it."

Posted by: Don't make me go Roundhead. at March 20, 2014 10:41 AM (id+fv)

316 No one is talking about the most telling part of her statement. “I’m stronger, so I was able to take the poster.” Typical of the Left/proaborts: might makes right.

Posted by: Terentia at March 20, 2014 10:41 AM (NbBOG)

317 "trigger"  that rhymes with ******* so it must be rayciss.

Posted by: Lorenezo's oil, miracles stronger than majik retahds at March 20, 2014 10:41 AM (3yfGn)

318 "We chatted about this a wee bit back. Here's your fix: http://tinyurl.com/nqurbng"

T9
Little VIA has a bumper sticker like that on his school notebook.

And he wears his Beretta hoodie to school frequently.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2014 10:42 AM (si68n)

319 That lady is such a nagger.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 20, 2014 10:42 AM (ZshNr)

320 It couldn't have upset her that much since when she was scurrying away like a cockroach, she was laughing and giggling.

Posted by: Zombie Pug at March 20, 2014 10:42 AM (r7mtu)

321 I'm sitting hear listening to what you say and nah, bro. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 02:37 PM (VtjlW) *whispers* You misspelled "here". Just thought I'd let you know.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 20, 2014 10:42 AM (da5Wo)

322 How, oh how, could any of Roy Rogers' films be shown today without there being Trigger warnings shown beforehand?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 20, 2014 10:43 AM (HsTG8)

323 Demanding a warning label on everything

If they were actually required to label all their leftist BS it would consume all the time and money wasted producing it.  Not a bad idea but there might be 1st amendment issues and the whole too many signs leads to more bad driving phenomenon.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 20, 2014 10:43 AM (DL2i+)

324 Welp. I'm screwed....

Posted by: The Fetus Inside Dr. Mireille Miller-Young at March 20, 2014 10:44 AM (0cMkb)

325 316 What really irritates me is that nothing will fucking happen to her. Posted by: Naes1984 at March 20, 2014 02:38 PM (LiHKo) They already have. She's humiliated the university and made national news. Don't tell me that doesn't fuck with a person." If only. She clearly has no shame and is actually proud of how she conducted herself. You are making the assumption that she's a normal human who processes information similar to other members of species.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 20, 2014 10:44 AM (LiHKo)

326 Peggy Olsen palate cleanser.  Because I'm a giver: http://nym.ag/1nBQn5k

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 20, 2014 10:45 AM (JtwS4)

327 323 That lady is such a nagger. Posted by: Lincolntf at March 20, 2014 02:42 PM (ZshNr) 324 I'm sitting hear listening to what you say and nah, bro. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 02:37 PM (VtjlW) *whispers* You misspelled "here". Just thought I'd let you know. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 20, 2014 02:42 PM (da5Wo) ************** ♪ Flirtin' with disaster...♬

Posted by: Bubba Cell Block #6 at March 20, 2014 10:45 AM (RJMhd)

328

 

we must outlaw assualt triggers

Posted by: kj at March 20, 2014 10:45 AM (lKyWE)

329 They already have. She's humiliated the university and made national news. Don't tell me that doesn't fuck with a person.

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Yeah.  Right.   In the circles she travels those are called "resume enhancers".

Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2014 10:45 AM (nELVU)

330 People who succumb to "triggers" would fail the humanity test and know the gom jabbar. No self-control, governed by emotion and instincts only.

Posted by: SamIam at March 20, 2014 10:45 AM (Lh8u2)

331 I should note that my all time favorite fandom trigger warning kerfuffle occurred when there were high and mighty shrieks that an entire community should carry a warning that I was involved in said community because my being a Republican was triggering. Please note that this was not a political forum and, in fact, discussions of politics were forbidden. Merely knowing that I was *gasp* a Republican and I might be lurking about was horrifying enough. The arguments about that flew back and forth and I watched and ate popcorn and then pointed out that k fine no problem warn away. Oh. By the by. I was cancelling all those extra features for the forum for which the only person who paid was me. Oddly enough, the argument suddenly ground to a screeching halt. I'm scary, yo.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 10:46 AM (VtjlW)

332 And yet it's perfectly fine to call a place where abortions are performed, "Planned Parenthood" even though no one goes there to plan their parenthood. This makes me feel all triggery...

Posted by: Meremortal at March 20, 2014 10:46 AM (1Y+hH)

333 1 Joan said that at around 11 a.m., Dr. Mireille Miller-Young — an associate professor with UCSB’s Feminist Studies Department... So the scrunt has tenure and is another grievance mongerer comfortably ensconced atop Mount Academe and placed in "park"? Abolish tenure and let Big Education burn.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 20, 2014 10:46 AM (HsTG8)

334 307 if the kid she attacked was 16, the parents should sue her and the university

Posted by: votermom at March 20, 2014 10:47 AM (GSIDW)

335 "She's humiliated the university and made national news. Don't tell me that doesn't fuck with a person who's well-adjusted, understands consequences, comprehends university policy and the law, and isn't a stark raving lunatic." Just to be thorough.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 10:47 AM (gBnkX)

336 The arguments about that flew back and forth and I watched and ate popcorn and then pointed out that k fine no problem warn away. Oh. By the by. I was cancelling all those extra features for the forum for which the only person who paid was me.



*CACKLE*


*adds another step to your stepstool of awesomeness*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:47 AM (4df7R)

337 I read somewhere that some Judge ruled the taxpayers have to pay for gender reassignment surgery for these kookbags when they are in prison. - It's a seamless web. Commit a crime. Go to prison. Get a free sex change. Now the person who committed the crime no longer exists and you get out of prison.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2014 10:48 AM (MC23X)

338 Northampton Community College students won't be partying their spring break away in Cancun or Miami this week.

But that doesn't mean they won't be partying. The party is just on campus.

The college was forced to cancel the weeklong break after weather-related closures piled up this semester. Some students were angry.

Posted by: Orgainizing For Assholes at March 20, 2014 10:48 AM (e8kgV)

339 All this talk about Triggering makes me want to go shoot my new baby glock. Just to feel that sweet sweet trigger with my index finger.

Posted by: Guido 'last of Guido tribe' at March 20, 2014 10:49 AM (15qFH)

340 *whispers* You misspelled "here". Just thought I'd let you know. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 20, 2014 02:42 PM (da5Wo) *whispers* You're about to become lion chow. Just thought I'd let you know.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 10:49 AM (VtjlW)

341 BTW, I love that the   dumb bitch   who      studies   "Sex Work and Pornography"       is     "triggered"    by butchered babies.        I don't know why, but I find that  darkly comic.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:49 AM (4df7R)

342 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 02:46 PM (VtjlW) What the fucking fuck? I might have gone medieval on someone's ass, just to justify their fears. But that's just me.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 10:49 AM (gBnkX)

343 Joan said that at around 11 a.m., Dr. Mireille Miller-Young — an associate professor with UCSB’s Feminist Studies Department...


Miller-Young, accompanied by a few of her students,





Majoring in Feminist Studies can lead to a rewarding career as an associate professor of Feminist Studies.


Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2014 10:49 AM (1Jaio)

344 341 "It's a seamless web. Commit a crime. Go to prison. Get a free sex change. Now the person who committed the crime no longer exists and you get out of prison." In all fairness, that's a hell of a commitment to get out of jail. I can't speak for anyone else but I'm rather attached to me genitals.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 20, 2014 10:49 AM (LiHKo)

345 I find her quite fetching....

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 20, 2014 10:49 AM (GjPnA)

346

Wait, just so I'm clear since I never heard of this "triggering" thing before.

 

Am I to understand that there exist warnings on relatively benign content that it may cause someone to act out?  AtC mentioned a warning on that forum she mentioned.  Is this really becoming the norm?  I've never seen it.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 20, 2014 10:50 AM (PFy0L)

347

And my response to that type of person would be, "You're in a criminal forensics class/Holocaust seminar/Virulent Pathogen Epidemiology course. Did you think you'd be able to make it through this class WITHOUT seeing pictures of dead bodies? Do you understand words?"

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2014 02:23 PM (4df7R)

 

Just laughed so loudly in my office...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 20, 2014 10:50 AM (fwARV)

348 and "anything that might inspire intrusive thoughts in people with OCD". *** I am a clinically diagnosed OCD'er. It is up to me to control my actions just like it is up to someone who is not affected by OCD to control their own. My intrusive and obsessive thoughts, sometimes about unpleasant things, is mine to deal with. The suggestion that everyone else around me should be made to acquiesce to what is, let's face it, the abnormal, is repulsive.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 20, 2014 10:51 AM (DmNpO)

349 The college was forced to cancel the weeklong break after weather-related closures piled up this semester. Some students were angry. No securing their big film stardom break by performing for the Girls Gone Wild skeevs' cameras, then?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 20, 2014 10:52 AM (HsTG8)

350 Ahh stop! You're triggering me! La la la la I can't hear you!

Posted by: Trigger-Sensitive at March 20, 2014 10:52 AM (JVEmw)

351 Majoring in Feminist Studies can lead to a rewarding career as an associate professor of Feminist Studies.


Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2014 02:49 PM (1Jaio)


----


.... and Human Resources.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2014 10:52 AM (nELVU)

352 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 02:46 PM (VtjlW) Nice. Was it a fandom group? It sounds like a fandom group. That's where I first heard of triggering; writers had to label their stories with possible triggers in the descriptions do as to not hurt sensitive readers. Never mind that revealing possible triggers also reveals possible spoilers for the story. Can't offend the delicate blossoms!

Posted by: LizLem at March 20, 2014 10:53 AM (IMejC)

353

She's humiliated the university and made national news. Don't tell me that doesn't fuck with a person.

 

Posted by: Teh Most Interesting Man at March 20, 2014 02:40 PM (dTh2r)

 

Humiliated how?  She'll probably be decorated.  It's UCSB.  She's a feminist-studies professor.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 20, 2014 10:53 AM (fwARV)

354 What is "queer theory"? Posted by: EC at March 20, 2014 02:07 PM (GQ8sn) I think it's that subtext joke on The Big Bang Theory where Raj and Howard have a little "thing" going on, even if it isn't true.

Posted by: Bill H at March 20, 2014 10:53 AM (3sZO1)

355 Pretty sure everyone is "triggered" to commit a crime. Typically known as "motive."

Ah...but you see.  "Trigger" means it's not your fault you cant control yourself, where as "motive" means it's all you baby.

Posted by: Emperor Norton II at March 20, 2014 10:53 AM (MlqTY)

356 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 20, 2014 02:51 PM (DmNpO) No unclosed formatting tags from NDH, of that you can be sure!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 20, 2014 10:53 AM (HsTG8)

357 The good professor looks and thinks exactly how you imagined she would.  Her web-page linked in my nick.  Here's her specialty at the school:

Areas of Study:

Pornography; Sex Work; Black Film, Popular Culture and Art; Feminist & Queer Theory; African American & African Diaspora Studies; Visual Archives; New Media; Ethnography; Oral History


Another useless mouth to feed who indoctrinates our kids in horseshit, and would be among the first to be fed to the Bio Matter to Food Converters when the Alien Invasion comes.  Which can't be too quickly, IMHO.


PS, "Honey", it ain't an African Diaspora if one African tribe sold another African tribe into slavery.  That's what was called "commerce" in Africa back in the day.


Posted by: Sharkman at March 20, 2014 10:53 AM (TM1p8)

358 "No securing their big film stardom break by performing for the Girls Gone Wild skeevs' cameras, then?" I'll reserve judgment on that idea until I find out if they're hot or not.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 10:53 AM (gBnkX)

359 Am I to understand that there exist warnings on relatively benign content that it may cause someone to act out? AtC mentioned a warning on that forum she mentioned. Is this really becoming the norm? I've never seen it.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 20, 2014 02:50 PM (PFy0L)



If, as AtC mentioned, you tend to frequent   online  writing sites,  you'll see "Trigger warnings"   listed as requirements.   Most of the time these are things that are, understandably,   extreme, and thus things that people may wish to avoid; not just in case it "triggers" them, but just for the sake of     personal     taste.    Usually they're things like   rape, incest, bestiality, suicide,   graphic violence and gore,   etc.   



It's when you     start getting into bullshit like   "racism" or "sexism"   or   "cis-normativism"  (I saw that on   a   community once and immediately left, because fuck that shit)    as trigger warnings that   things get ridiculous.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:53 AM (4df7R)

360

And my response to that type of person would be, "You're in a criminal forensics class/Holocaust seminar/Virulent Pathogen Epidemiology course. Did you think you'd be able to make it through this class WITHOUT seeing pictures of dead bodies? Do you understand words?"

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2014 02:23 PM (4df7R)

 

 

 

Gnarly!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 20, 2014 10:53 AM (BAS5M)

361 I would like to point out that the mooselimbs use this line of argument to justify their attacks on 'uncovered' women.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 20, 2014 10:54 AM (wNF3N)

362 Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2014 02:49 PM (1Jaio)

----
.... and Human Resources.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2014 02:52 PM (nELVU)




Yeah, "Diversity Departments" in companies are probably filled with vile agenda driven things like her

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 20, 2014 10:54 AM (1Jaio)

363 Was it a fandom group?

Posted by: LizLem at March 20, 2014 02:53 PM (IMejC)



Damn, I read that as "Femdom" group.  So much for hitting the bunk early.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 20, 2014 10:54 AM (L8r/r)

364 351 Wait, just so I'm clear since I never heard of this "triggering" thing before.
Am I to understand that there exist warnings on relatively benign content that it may cause someone to act out? AtC mentioned a warning on that forum she mentioned. Is this really becoming the norm? I've never seen it.

The funny thing about it is that they have come full circle. Used to be that using the word "hysteria" was tantamount to making war on women, implying that they are sensitive and touchy and prone to go hyper over trivialities. Now they have a new name for hysteria, and are touting it as some sort of combination of victim-credential virtue and get-out-of-jail-free card.

Posted by: Splunge at March 20, 2014 10:54 AM (qyomX)

365 "Trigger" is functionally the same as "the dog ate my homework".  Its a deliberate abdication of personal responsibility.

I wonder if a few weeks behind bars cooling her heels will "trigger" a breakthrough in this angry woman.


Posted by: looking closely at March 20, 2014 10:55 AM (6Q9g2)

366 Careful what you wish for, leftists.  You just might get it.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at March 20, 2014 10:55 AM (Ojzt3)

367

353 -

 

I recall seeing a film about some OCD folks a while back.  One guy would get set off by El Caminos... yes, the car. 

 

So they're showing him sitting at  a restaurant with his father, who has probably put up with more than his share of nonsense over the years, but dad proceeds to talk about... you guessed  it, El Caminos.

 

Seems like a pretty dickish move to me, but like I said, dad probably has put up with some nonsense over the years. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 20, 2014 10:55 AM (TOk1P)

368 Just laughed so loudly in my office...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 20, 2014 02:50 PM (fwARV)



*deep bow*   Thank you.   I live to serve.   ^_^

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:55 AM (4df7R)

369 Don't trigger me Ho!

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 20, 2014 10:55 AM (/rlXg)

370 366 I would like to point out that the mooselimbs use this line of argument to justify their attacks on 'uncovered' women.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 20, 2014 02:54 PM (wNF3N)

 

Uncovered meat, yo.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 20, 2014 10:56 AM (DrWcr)

371 Queer Theory > The Big Bang Theory

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 20, 2014 10:56 AM (P1WNR)

372 So AosHQ Spolier Alerts to become Trigger Warnings?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2014 10:56 AM (BAS5M)

373 MWR and Splunge, thanks.  Guess I need to get out more. 

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 20, 2014 10:56 AM (PFy0L)

374 Damn, I read that as "Femdom" group. So much for hitting the bunk early.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 20, 2014 02:54 PM (L8r/r)



"Fandom" and "Femdom" are not mutually exclusive terms.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:56 AM (4df7R)

375 Between a vile sock at 371 and a vile comment at 375, I'm laughing a little more than I should be. Just a little.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 10:57 AM (gBnkX)

376 "Fandom" and "Femdom" are not mutually exclusive terms.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2014 02:56 PM (4df7R)



Hmmmmm, good point. 

Posted by: Country Singer at March 20, 2014 10:57 AM (L8r/r)

377 I am a clinically diagnosed OCD'er. It is up to me to control my actions just like it is up to someone who is not affected by OCD to control their own. My intrusive and obsessive thoughts, sometimes about unpleasant things, is mine to deal with. The suggestion that everyone else around me should be made to acquiesce to what is, let's face it, the abnormal, is repulsive. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 20, 2014 02:51 PM (DmNpO) Exactly NDH, as I am responsible for the angry fist through wall holes and Ms. G's response, as in "well now I can have the bathroom completely redone.' ugh. Temper and loss of control in my case is expensive.

Posted by: Guido 'last of Guido tribe' at March 20, 2014 10:57 AM (15qFH)

378 MWR and Splunge, thanks.

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Wow.... i TOTALLY read that wrong......

Posted by: fixerupper at March 20, 2014 10:58 AM (nELVU)

379 No unclosed formatting tags from NDH, of that you can be sure! *** Ha! Oddly enough, however, OCD does not always reveal itself in a need to be neat and tidy.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 20, 2014 10:58 AM (DmNpO)

380 nood

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 20, 2014 10:58 AM (gBnkX)

381 351>>Am I to understand that there exist warnings on relatively benign content that it may cause someone to act out? AtC mentioned a warning on that forum she mentioned. Is this really becoming the norm? I've never seen it.

Me neither.  If these things do, in fact exist, they would be a gigantic "get out of jail free card" for misbehaving.   Is self-control now considered impossible?

Warning labels, in general, are usually left over indications from prior nut-job lawsuits.   EG, apparently the good folks are Sturm Ruger, inc, need to remind everyone that guns are.  .  .(wait for it). . .DANGEROUS!

http://www.gunblast.com/images/Ruger_MarkIII-Hunter/1Mvc-014f.jpg

Posted by: looking closely at March 20, 2014 10:59 AM (6Q9g2)

382 Fred Phelps is dead.  He bravely took on the facist Military Industrial Complex everywhere.  He is a true patriot.

Godspeed great warrior!

Posted by: Qestionmann at March 20, 2014 10:59 AM (FdpF8)

383 Nood!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 10:59 AM (4df7R)

384 361 Areas of Study: Pornography; Sex Work; Black Film, Popular Culture and Art; Feminist Queer Theory; African American African Diaspora Studies; Visual Archives; New Media; Ethnography; Oral History You sought a position as Academic Professor You were considered for Human Resources drone You will settle for Coffeehouse Barista

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 20, 2014 10:59 AM (HsTG8)

385

I think it's that subtext joke on The Big Bang Theory where Raj and Howard have a little "thing" going on, even if it isn't true.

 

Is that like when I dream we own neighbouring houses and there's a tunnel that connects Howard's front yard to my backyard?

Posted by: Raj at March 20, 2014 10:59 AM (87y4e)

386 Wait, just so I'm clear since I never heard of this "triggering" thing before. Am I to understand that there exist warnings on relatively benign content that it may cause someone to act out? AtC mentioned a warning on that forum she mentioned. Is this really becoming the norm? I've never seen it. Posted by: @JohnTant at March 20, 2014 02:50 PM (PFy0L) In certain circles, yes, it is considered a norm to put up warnings if your work will reference various and sundry topics. It started off as serious matters, such as rape or torture or physical abuse or self-harm. The purpose behind that is that these are matters that people are perusing for enjoyment and by putting on the warnings, the person could then take steps to be responsible for their own mental health. Note that this is not benign content. These were warnings for matters that a reasonable person would find upsetting. Like everything else, something that started with a fairly benign intent went spiraling out of control.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 11:01 AM (VtjlW)

387 Oh, btw,  "trigger warnings"   aren't supposed to be a way   to keep people from   going   cuckoo bananas.   They're   a way for people to avoid things that might   cause them emotional or psychological damage.   If you're a rape victim,    for example,      there's a good chance you don't want to read a    story   that includes rape,   since that might "trigger" a negative emotional or physiological response.   In that regard they make sense.


If you allow people to start using these things    as   cover for their bad behavior,   though,   then they go from being   basic courtesy to being   big fucking  Get Out Of Jail Free cards.    That's bullshit.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 11:02 AM (4df7R)

388 Like everything else, something that started with a fairly benign intent went spiraling out of control.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 20, 2014 03:01 PM (VtjlW)



^^ What AtC said ^^



I should just let AtC write everything I'm thinking,   because she makes it sound better.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 20, 2014 11:03 AM (4df7R)

389 Interesting that a "woman" who isn't ever, ever, EVER going to have an opportunity to get "lucky" enough to have an abortion herself (having one apparently a badge of pride now on the lunatic left), because even a blind doberman lured with peanut butter would never fuck her, is such a rabid fan of abortion that she assaults some kid who has the temerity to "question authority."

Moloch-worshipping psychotic baby-killers. 

Posted by: Sharkman at March 20, 2014 11:04 AM (TM1p8)

390 Is that like when I dream we own neighbouring houses and there's a tunnel that connects Howard's front yard to my backyard? Posted by: Raj at March 20, 2014 02:59 PM (87y4e) Bazinga.

Posted by: Sheldon C. at March 20, 2014 11:04 AM (3sZO1)

391 I agree with the sign puller. Fail to see the problem with intended audience aborting themselves into extinction.

Posted by: pc at March 20, 2014 11:06 AM (Oz1og)

392 Why is it that so-called "feminists" who insist they are anything but wilting flowers or shrill harpies become one or both whenever exposed to a different opinion or point of view?

And "triggering" is the new "privilege," a buzz-word meant to end the argument and shame an opponent without ever having to prove one's own argument or reasoning.

It's abject bullshit, and when the opposition co-opts it and uses it against them, they will discover much like the Left in general that they won't like this new world nearly as much as they think they will.

Posted by: acethepug at March 20, 2014 11:09 AM (kD0FG)

393 After clicking over to the story and seeing the photo of the "professor", I think "Trigger" is perfectly apt.

Posted by: red speck at March 20, 2014 11:09 AM (9/Ug/)

394 Here we go: GOOGLE Founder: Open Up Medical Records For Researchers... http://goo.gl/BnGDAQ

Posted by: Zombie Pug at March 20, 2014 11:14 AM (r7mtu)

395 "6 Ace! You missed the best part!


She is pregnant.



Irony x 11ty7.

Posted by: EC at March 20, 2014 01:47 PM (GQ8sn)"



Well, you need to cut the gal some slack.  With all those hormones and whatnot making her crazy, she just can't be held responsible for her actions.  That is why the law wisely does not allow women to vote or sign binding legal contracts. 



Harry Enfield has addressed this issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnFvbOwToxA

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at March 20, 2014 11:25 AM (PD6iL)

396 American colleges have become toxic. I think a case can be made to eliminate them, along with high school. Elementary schools should teach the basics, including how to learn new things. Then kids can begin to be introduced to real life - intern or apprentice work, travel, whatever - while taking courses in things that interest them, either in ad-hoc schools or over the web. Companies would require potential full-time employees to take tests to determine whether they have the skills and knowledge needed for a job, instead of simply checking off a degree, which would now be obsolete. Oh, and raise the voting age to 25-30, tax-paying or property-owning citizens only.

Posted by: whoever at March 20, 2014 11:29 AM (pjMym)

397 On Twitter, @heartiste pointed out the logic trap of rapists being "triggered" by short skirts.

Posted by: Alex at March 20, 2014 11:40 AM (/yzYn)

398 Is it too late for me to claim a "trigger"

Posted by: Dr Amy Bishop at March 20, 2014 11:41 AM (RGgMp)

399 When someone responds to an investigator that they were "triggered" and that was why they acted out, the correct next question is, "What is your mental illness diagnosis and how do I contact your therapist?"

Posted by: Watcher at March 20, 2014 11:46 AM (Mu1Tl)

400 The perfect answer to "I've been triggered!"....

Suck it up, buttercup.

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 20, 2014 11:56 AM (tqAT4)

401 Let me see if I have this whole thing down.  If I hang an effigy of the President, I go to jail with a hate crime modifier.  If a black man then comes to my house and hangs me next to my effigy, he walks because he was triggered?  By racism?  Ummm....

Posted by: Tuerqas at March 20, 2014 12:04 PM (BLnGk)

402 "trigger" ??? the word relates to Firearms /or Roy Roger's horse, named after the trigger on Roy's pistol. So for libtard Leftists who ban guns because guns have evil triggers to keep smearing the word "trigger" in everyone's eyes and ears and brains, that is so hypocritically dumb. Top that with their penchant to tease, repeating "trigger" because they're racists playing juvenile rhyming replacement for the taboo N-word.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 20, 2014 12:09 PM (/vO0r)

403 Here's your "trigger warning"...life is oftentimes ugly and brutal, and if you spend a lot of time trying to avoid reality you don't belong anywhere but in your closet safely cocooned in bubblewrap and fed through a straw. Maybe the alligators really will eat you last.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 20, 2014 12:24 PM (yh0zB)

404 you know... for years we have been told not to consider women oversensitive emotional hot house flowers, now we are encouraged to treat them as such. Butch up cupcake

Posted by: billhedrick at March 20, 2014 12:41 PM (AUqBG)

405 My disabled friend with the Anxiety Disorder get 'Triggered" by several different things, but she recognizes that the problem is inside her own head and not the problem of the rest of the world.  Fer Zample, as a ten year old child she saw a man crushed in half by a back hoe and now close, loud construction equipment can upset her quite badly, but she does not insist that the site must shut down for her sake.  Xanax, deep breath, move on. 

Anyhow, if i beat the snot out of every person who TRIGGERED my general antipathies i'd never get any work done and my hands would hurt all the time.

Posted by: Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder at March 20, 2014 01:02 PM (9O5Pr)

406 Not sure which type of person is worse, the ones who take offense by proxy in issuing "trigger warnings" on everything that isn't rigorously sanitized by feminists, or those who gleefully point out possible "triggers" in the hopes that one of them will really hurt someone.

From time to time the tree of leftism must be watered with fresh neologisms.

Posted by: Karusky at March 20, 2014 02:35 PM (mes5f)

407 Trigger = It's your fault when I behave like an asshole.

Posted by: Hamilton at March 20, 2014 02:49 PM (oMYHY)

408 Trigger....this is getting beyond ridiculous. I submit that if you are prone to emotional responses to data...you have no business in higher education nor the basic skill for objective analysis.

Posted by: yoda sez think first at March 20, 2014 03:19 PM (f/qE7)

409 Clearly government action is needed to enforce trigger warnings. Reading this stupid racist reich-wing drivel every day is nearly enough to trigger me. It will trigger me into opening a bottle of this locally grown fair trade sustainable agriculture organic red wine though. I will drink until you racists cease to exist.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at March 20, 2014 04:14 PM (604CD)

410 Talking about 'triggers' sounds very much like an admission of guilt to my uncomplicated mind.

Posted by: bhoddisatva at March 20, 2014 04:20 PM (wy4YH)

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