DELICATE FLOWERS: Ovid’s Metamorphoses triggers students at Columbia. “Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ is a fixture of Lit Hum, but like so many texts in the Western canon, it contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom. These texts, wrought with histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression, can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color, or a student from a low-income background.”

Note that the authors of this opinion piece are four (!) women. Maybe they, and everyone else concerned by the “triggering” Western canon, should just stay home and let the big boys go to college to read such dangerous texts.