Website lists trigger warnings for over 6,000 iconic novels
A Wikipedia-style website has published trigger warnings for thousands of the world’s most iconic novels ranging from the works Charles Dickens to Harper Lee and even J.R.R. Tolkien., cites vices across classic literature such as fatphobia, age-gap romances, discrimination against gypsies, and even diarrhea as some of the red flags for readers.
“We are not medical/psychological professionals and do not claim that our pages are complete or accurate,” a homepage message reads, also warning “just because a book ‘looks safe’ for you on our site does not guarantee that it is.
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