Website lists trigger warnings for over 6,000 classic novels

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booktriggerwarnings.com, 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.Though, the minds behind the concept are quick to admit that the team of peer-based trigger spotters are not all that qualified. “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.”There’s been a total of 6,701 books to have trigger warnings on the webpage, the Daily Mail reported.

They range from high school required readings such as Mark Twain’s reconstruction era book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” which was listed for “parental neglect,” along with themes of racism and slavery, to a laundry list of apparently inappropriate subject matter in J.D.

Salinger’s New York coming of age tale “The Catcher In The Rye.” That novel is marked for ableism — the discrimination against non-able bodied individual — vomiting and diarrhea, violent fantasies, in addition to other heavier subject matters such as suicide, sexual harassment, racism, homophobia, and “implied” pedophilia.F.

Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” — a glamorous depiction of Long Island’s elite gold coast in the 1920s — made it onto the site for containing themes of wealth hoarding, class discrimination, misogynistic violence and — spoiler alert — character death.