[ SECRET POST #2649 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2649 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[AlternateHistory.com : Malê Rising]


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11. [SPOILERS for Superior Spider-Man]



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12. [SPOILERS for Believe]



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13. [WARNING for rape]

[Orwell]


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[Colditz]


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Comments

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Does this mean you won't read ANY books that might disturb you in that fashion? Because that's gonna be kind of limiting, don't you think?

Re: OP

[diet_poison]

Do you think peoples' lives are inherently limited if they don't want to go out of their way to read/otherwise consume media that they know will disturb them?

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Here's what I think -

if the OP stops reading every book where a passage or a theme offends him/her, it's going to limit him/her eventually - if not in the classroom, then in life. I think their views of a lot of things will narrow down in uncomfortable ways if they only choose the things that won't disturb them. It used to be a GOOD thing to get out of your comfort zone, these days people use phrases like "I'm not okay with that" to stay in safe little boxes and I don't see how it be a positive thing. The overall themes of a book like 1984, what it spotlights in maybe our society and where we are going, are WORTH some discomfort. I read that book over 25 years ago, and while a lot of it was not comfort reading to me, SOME of the things stuck. Like why Winston and the female protagonist (according to my English teacher) began to have sex - not just because they wanted to have sex (if I recall correctly, neither one of them got a lot of pleasure out of it, or maybe that was my 16-year old impression) but because it was a form of rebellion against the society they lived in - and that helped form my opinion about protest, passive, subtle, aggressive, whatnot. And what it means to be rebellious.

I apologize if I can't see the OP's point of view, kind of, but maybe it's because I'm old school. "That makes me uncomfortable, therefore I am not okay with it and I won't read it" just seems like...I don't know...an overly privileged thing to say. And if I tried to explain what I mean by that, I'd probably fail. So...yeah.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. It sounds like you're arguing in favor of books because they promote critical thinking, but at the same time your entire post sounds like the same dull opinon all of my high school English teachers tried to impose. I can't even begin to describe how ironic that is.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, that was petty of me. Actual arguments forthcoming.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

You are not "old school", just pretentious.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

What's so pretentious about it? "People should be be encouraged to step out of their comfort zone" sounds like a level-headed opinion.

Re: OP

[diet_poison]

There are many degrees of discomfort, anon.

Also I think people should step out of their comfort zones, not be pushed out.