Apparently college students aren't mature enough to read certain stories, or write them.
A violent, disturbing story written by a student leads to the student being expelled. The student complains that he was inspired by a reading assignment from the class, so the teacher who assigned it gets the boot. And in fact, the whole issue gets turned over to the authorities- and ends up on the SFPD Homicide Division. There was never a homicide!
And again, we have people hyperventilating and overreacting, all sound and fury, signifying... nothing. A young writer with a predeliction to slasher flicks writes a slasher story. A really icky one at that. People do that. ::sigh::
A violent, disturbing story written by a student leads to the student being expelled. The student complains that he was inspired by a reading assignment from the class, so the teacher who assigned it gets the boot. And in fact, the whole issue gets turned over to the authorities- and ends up on the SFPD Homicide Division. There was never a homicide!
And again, we have people hyperventilating and overreacting, all sound and fury, signifying... nothing. A young writer with a predeliction to slasher flicks writes a slasher story. A really icky one at that. People do that. ::sigh::
But to...compound that? Wrong word. It's the worst kind of superstition to treat these symbolic actions as actual actions. Actual firings? Actual expellings? How are people supposed to have a reasonable relationship with the contents of their minds when gets pulled shit like this?
Ugh. File under 'I guess we actually are becoming a selective New Testament theocracy.' Except, given our politicians and their predilictions, I can't imagine the adultery-in-your-mind bit will ever be more than a misdemeanor. If, you know, that.