“They’re terrible things and they have to be thought about, clearly, but if you say you can’t watch this play, you can’t watch Titus Andronicus, you can’t read it in an English class. Or you can’t watch Macbeth because it’s got children being killed in it, it might trigger something when you were young that upset you once, because uncle touched you in a nasty place, well I’m sorry.”
I loved Stephen Fry in Blackadder. I don’t like his politics and don’t much care for his personal life.
But in this article I agree with what he’s saying. He’s just arguing against this new wave of glorifying victims. I think he’s right.
Wallowing in one’s victimhood is really self defeating. You might as well just flush your life down the toilet. And asking ME to regulate my whole life around the fact that YOU’RE so sensitive that you might be “triggered” is ridiculous.
He might have phrased things a bit crudely here, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
“But in this article I agree with what he’s saying. He’s just arguing against this new wave of glorifying victims. I think he’s right.”
I agree. I loved Steven Fry when he played Oscar Wilde. He’s a marvelous actor. He’s not trivializing rape; he’s just saying that it’s weak to spend your life in self pity, wanting others to tiptoe around your ‘triggers.’
Heck, I went to Catholic school. The nuns beat the snot out of us, and neither I nor my friends had to go to therapy over it.
This weeks episode of Gotham had the Penguin feeding a mother her just butchered children to her without her knowledge. Penguin kills her just after revealing the source of her dinner. Fun for the whole family!