Jennifer Medina argument about trigger warnings limits knowledge of education from students and causes unnecessary protection from someone feeling uncomfortable due to the materials presented in college. The author provides examples from students in college discussing the effects of trigger warning and how it makes them feel discomfort because of the graphic and explicit descriptions portray. Medina is against the use of trigger warnings because the fear of understanding distress towards literature disadvantages potential learning. One of the examples Medina mentions about is Oberlin college in Ohio, that the professors are advertised to put trigger warnings on their syllabus so the students knows everything that might trigger them before consulting information about the subject. For …show more content…
The possible intense graphic images and the stated explicit showed how it can cause post-traumatic stress disorder. Having fear of any discomfort will “disrupt a student’s learning” because they wouldn’t be gaining the knowledge they would need to know for that particular subject and to understand that certain subject you need to know the troubles of it. The reason this sort of discomfort is taught is because it helps you understand more about the real world an example would be like victims of rape or people who served in the war. In this case trigger warning is taken too far because this limits a student education on processing to be successful on that major or field by not knowing the circumstances of upsetness, discomfort, and distress. In fact I agree with Medina with how ridiculousness the use of trigger warnings, she didn’t change my mind I am against it because I believe it's unacceptable you can’t be protected by discomfort, there is no safe place where you won't ever feel that