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10 Reasons Safe Spaces Suck
The media tells you that safe spaces are the best thing since sliced bread. With the use of such things as trigger warnings (alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response) and microaggressions (small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless) in safe spaces, college students are protected from any distress. Due to safe spaces lack of negativity, students rarely encounter adverse experiences thus producing individuals lacking practice in accurately analyzing unfavorable moments. So, when faced with a not so great situation many of these students struggle and consequentially develop a range of altered perceptions regarding this negativity. The perceptions they create are called mental distortions and will be explained as the ten reasons safe spaces suck. Definitions of mental distortions and ideas for this post come from The Coddling of the American Mind.
