Looks good, wish there was a better balance of female characters though.

Given that the full-body scanners haven't been shown to prevent one terrorist attack yet, I think that telling trans people their horrible experiences are a necessary part of preventing terrorism a bit inappropriate.

Well we considered implicit attitude tests and such, but we figured that if it was supposed to be used in a large number of schools to test a large number of individuals (the hypothetical brief we were given is that we're being employed by the Victorian Department of Education) then a quick cheap self report…

It's an assignment, no real teachers were harmed in the making of this questionnaire.

It's a purely hypothetical assignment so none of this will actually be put into effect, but transphobic or cissexist school staff detected by the measure will be required to go through professional development. We've found a few existing organisations such as Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria, Transgender Victoria and…

That is an interesting question that I'm not sure of the answer to. However if someone were uneducated in such matters then there is the definite possibility that they would inadvertently treat a trans student in a cissexist or transphobic manner, so in that sense I guess our questionnaire would still be fulfilling…

Well there are a few different methods you could use, such as implicit attitude tests and such, but we figured that if it was supposed to be used in a large number of schools to test a large number of individuals (the hypothetical brief we were given is that we're being employed by the Victorian Department of…

I'm stuck inside all weekend finishing a psychology group project, which is designing a psychological measure to detect transphobic and cissexist attitudes in teachers and other school staff.

Who is blaming men? Why do you think that women aren't taking responsibility?

Breast cancer gets funding because many women fought for it after it had been ignored for many years and was seen as an issue that should not even be talked about in public. If you think prostate cancer needs more research funding then you should be campaigning, not complaining that the campaign for breast cancer…

Of course it shouldn't matter, but it does. You can only go so far in removing bias from human beings. There's always going to be some there, it's how our brains work.

Ah, you got me!

Unfortunately gender can and does matter in science, in terms of what research gets done and how it is interpreted. For example, sexuality research has historically been so male driven and focused that it has been a generally well regarded hypothesis (that still sometimes makes it into textbooks) that the female…

That sounds rather unforgiving. How is one supposed to catch up if they were sick or had an emergency?

Weird, at my university they record all lectures as a matter of course via a system called lectopia, so that if you have to miss one it's easy to catch up at home.

Yeah, I only looked those up because of your question but I'm thinking I'm going to have to try making a few of those.

That was wonderful, thank you.

Apparently so!

Coconut milk. The creamiest and most delicious of the milks.

So... you're not playing devil's advocate then?