Wednesday, March 25, 2015

A world of wimps---Trigger Warning: Jazz Hands

Trigger Warning: Jazz Hands - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Jazz hands—the sight, the words, the very concept—have been known to trigger spontaneous fits of laughter in my world.
Hence the warning in this headline.
But jazz hands are actually the "safer" option, according to folks at a U.K. student conference.
In a tweet sent out earlier today, the National Union of Students (NUS) Women's Campaign requested that attendees please express approval with jazz hands rather than clapping. The original request apparently came from Oxford University representatives. 
"Now I've been in meeting or conference settings where clapping was deemed too disruptive to the flow of discussion. Using jazz hands instead of clapping is not a rare or especially ridiculous proposition. But the reason given here—claps are too anxiety-provokingis a new one for me..."

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