adj. : Beliefs and practices that coincide with the "Third-Wave"
feminist idea that
people's feelings and emotions must be treated as delicate and fragile. Common on university campuses in the forms of "trigger warnings" and "
safe spaces."
A: I thought the ghost of Martin Luther King Jr. was giving the commencement speech for the university.
B: He was, but since he discusses real equality, a couple
white feminists felt he didn't acknowledge the "lived experiences" of black
people. They felt this was triggering so they used a hashtag campaign to get him banned.
A: But i though universities were where
people went to have the
hard conversations, work through them and better society as a result.
B: They use to be, but since fainting couch feminism took over, they'
re just places young adults go to be coddled like children for $40k a year.
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