Trigger Warning: That is the Trigger Warning column.
Our pampering culture of celebrating weakness is perilously close to creating the above statement a serious, entirely real, non-satirical norm.
Take probably the most recent label, which was added just before Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
The old book that was made into an incredible 1939 movie is claimed to amount to “romanticizing a shocking era in our history and the horrors of slavery.”
Um, duh! It is a Civil War story that is pro-Confederate.
A more useful trigger warning I’d throw before Gone with the Wind is “This book has 1,472 pages.”
In truth, books, movies, and TV shows almost never begin with a liberation warning to assist me make a call. Listed below are a number of I’d prefer to see.
Trigger Warning: You won’t ever be capable of afford this beautiful house
Every perverse Nancy Meyers movie (“It’s Complicated,” “Something’s Gotta Give,” “The Holiday”) has a stunningly gorgeous home within the Hamptons or California, where affluent, relaxed people like Ina Garten drink red wine on beige couches that miraculously way they never stain. I won’t ever own one in all these wonderful properties – and I am shocked!
![Something must be given](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009173349.jpg?w=1024)
Trigger Warning: This cruel video presents an unrealistic variety of days off
In “Dirty Dancing”, a family stays in a Sixties Catskills resort for therefore long that their youngest daughter becomes an expert mambo dancer. How did Jerry Orbach land this Loch Ness monster amongst holiday packages? Why do I envy the fictional doctor within the cabin?
Trigger warning: Jar Jar Binks may infuriate you
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a really enjoyable movie… in case you rise up and leave the room while Jar Jar Binks is on screen. That silly face, that annoying voice. “Good day”?!?
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Trigger Warning: Some parts of this book should be cut
Prince Harry’s unhinged memoir, Spare, was not only a burnt-down barn tome of out-of-the-box entitlements and reckless family betrayal – it was also disgusting. The rebellious king decided to disclose that he was circumcised and said that his boarding school buddies knew his rank and file status. “We called it Roundheads vs. Cavaliers,” he writes. spare me!
Trigger Warning: Tom Hanks is doing a weird thing together with his voice
What the hell was Tom Hanks doing with that crazy Colonel Parker voice in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis?
![Tom Hanks was widely ridiculed for his portrayal of Colonel Tom Parker in the film](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000004127506.jpg?w=1024)
Trigger Warning: This movie is unbearably boring and you’ll need to pretend to adore it at parties
“Nomadland”, “Roma”, “The Power of the Dog” – so many hours could be saved with one helpful sentence.
Trigger Warning: These characters only eat on the hotel restaurant
A bunch of wealthy sex maniacs travel to Sicily within the second season of The White Lotus. Do these lucky losers keep eating mare fruits on the seaside? Do they jump and cheat on their spouses in home trattorias? No, they almost all the time eat on the rattling resort restaurant. Enraged.
![Marley and me](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009178100.jpg?w=1024)
Trigger Warning: This video comprises the death of a dog – oops, sorry, spoiler alert!
When I go to an Owen Wilson comedy – he’s Dupree for God’s sake! – the ending of “Marley & Me” shouldn’t be what I want.
Trigger Warning: You are about to devote six years of your life to a show with a terrible ending
If only this message had flashed across my screen before ABC’s amazing 2004 pilot Lost.