From college, through grad school and law school, every professor is professor or Dr. depending on their credentials. I couldn’t imagine being that casual unless a professor expressly asked to call her by her first name. And even then, I feel more comfortable showing deference.

All the best to you too! Thanks for giving me a little more confidence to ask for the address of my choice.

Thanks for the support. But I think his miserable life as a white suburban dad in the same midwestern suburb he grew up in is already boring him to death.

I hear you! I left academia but I used to do the same introducing myself as professor and asking them to address me that way.

“couldn’t stand to be married to a white woman of equal intelligence”.

I’m a WOC college professor as well, and I’ve been too passive about how my students address me. I always introduce myself as Professor, which is what I’d prefer, but when we’re in the midst of an experiment in the lab, I’ll answer to whatever, as long as it is some version of my name.

I feel this. Fuck this stewardess and fuck Delta. Fuck the assumption that every authority figure has to be a white man.

This! I teach in college too and consistently receive evaluations saying I am “slightly weird in a great way”. I mostly just pretend animals have human attributes.

Word. I say funny stuff all the time in class, but it doesn’t require me to be vulgar in any way shape or form. She’s just obscene as far as I’m concerned. Also, it’s my duty to demonstrate to students what it should be to have a colleagial relationship with everyone I work with. This simply doesn’t fit the bill.

Sorry, this teacher isn’t cool and this topic isn’t funny. I’ve taught college for 15 years, and I wouldn’t say this to 18 year olds, much less 10th graders. You’re in an immense position of power as a teacher. It’s really important not to mock your students. I had one teacher in HS who consistently made fun of…

Although my handle suggests otherwise, I grew up with a little dog. She lived till she was 16. She supported our family through near-poverty, multiple school examinations, and my parents’ brutal divorce after an abusive marriage. She firmly took my mother’s side and growled every time she met our father for most of…

On the last day of January of this year I lost my pup- the best man in my life. I only had him for about four years, but I adopted him when he was older from small shelter. I learned later that he had been a former military dog, or at least property of the US Govt (I received a call from a woman who worked at a non…

My Blue Heeler/Black Lab mix had to go 8 days ago. She was a 13 year old with kidney failure and she woke up last Thursday unable to walk. She didn’t fight being carried, that’s how we knew it was time(not the fact she hadn’t eaten 8 days. She was a fucking freak. I sit here right now with her collar in my reach and…

My dog was a shelter dog who lived to be 16. We got Abby when I was 4 and my mom was pregnant with my brother. She lived until 5 days after I turned 20. She was my absolute best friend growing up and she always knew how to make me smile. She was the absolute sweetest dog who loved everyone. What I would give to have…

Let’s talk about our sweet pups who have passed!

I fully plan on doing this with my thesis too! If a baby takes 9 months to gestate and this stupid document takes 6-7 years (pray for me) you’re damn right I’m going to celebrate it publicly. I also don’t plan to have human babies so this thesis baby is it for me.

Me when I got my first full-time job: Screaming “Oh thank GOD,” tears of joy, jumping up and down and squealing, calling friends and family, updating social media profile.

People who reject the feminist label to be a ‘humanist’, and people who believe in All Lives Matter over Black Lives Matter are examples of people who stand in the way of social progress. They’re obstacles to a better, equal society. They help to validate the opinion that disadvantaged groups aren’t actually…

But for viewers who aren’t yet at the parenting stage, the inundation with negative stories about that next step is frustrating and depressing. Watching them, it’s easy to wonder why anyone would procreate at all.