You know how female cops are stereotyped as being horrific and terrifying because they have something to prove? Well, I am going to extend the stereotype to female professors. Like a terrible person.
According to the world of academia, I'm allowed to be a terrible person because I am female. Seeing as how all the female educators preparing me to be a female educator are hateful, its going to take a lot of energy not to be unwittingly inducted into their clan of shrewishness. And that, my friends, is energy I just don't have today. Which we can all tell cause I am venting all my frustration to the internet and I'm going to hit the publish button.
And all my suspicions that I am not at all a feminist have finally been confirmed. Because I have never had any trouble with the men who teach my classes. But the women are overwhelmingly catty and passive aggressive and elitist and unclear and impossible and vicious.
Also, I hate your reading assignments. I wonder what she'd say if my assigned video posting for banned books week actually supported the parents who cause all those headaches for teachers whose literature choices they despise. Because that book was terrible and also inappropriate and I would never make high school students read something that included that much graphic description of sexual activity. Maybe I don't want to support all the banned books. Maybe some of them should be banned.
I'm breathing. And I'm going to show up to class and be pleasant. I'm going to!
My High School English Teachers followed the opposite trend. Does that mean I have hope?
There is lots of hope for you. Not all books are worth reading. Some of them are certainly not worth the paper they are printed on and I would support their being banned or at least forced to be accompanied by a warning label like cigarettes.
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