Pretty sure Whipping Post is an MRA, he has all the hallmarks (narcissistic, victimizatiztion, irrational, overly emotional).

She was visibly apprehensive of you, and that was all she ‘did’ to you, based on your description. So, she should hide her interior reality from you, so that you aren’t ‘dehumanized’? She should have no interior state that doesn’t act in a state of comfort for you, so that you don’t have to observe it (which, and I’m…

See, I feel like it’s begging for such a career. I once worked with a prof named Dr. Hell. Tell me that Dr. Hell isn’t an awesome name to see on a first year’s syllabus? Being of the Hell family surely encourages such pedigree. I feel the same for the Boring family. Should in fact, become a daredevil (no pun on the…

That said, both of these types are the (loud) minority. Most students are genuinely awesome and eager to learn in my uni/discipline.

I’m not sure, but it could be internalized gender-bias. As a young, arguably attractive (in a fairly banal way) female prof., I’ve had two types of hostilities that seem to be gender related and they vary by the gender of the student: 1. the (always quite young, so far always white) male student that challenges my…

Dude, that really sucks you only had three good teachers in your entire degree. What was your major, if you don’t mind me asking? Not that I know what to take from your reply, necesarily, but I do think that there are certain fields that focus more on teaching/learning than others (at the undergrad level)

I found my evals as an undergrad and as a grad were quite different. As a grad, it was all about who gave me the most learning rich experience; who challenged my ideas and my work the most. Definitely not about who gave me the least amount of work.

I am aware of this bias and try to get around it to some degree by addressing it in my first lecture/class (as a young woman prof). I note that I enjoy an open dialogue in class, even though I’ve heard that this has been known to undermine me as a female professor, and that I think this teaching model is the best…

Oh, honey.

Here is where the cause of equal representation in media really gets reinforced as an important cause: there is expectation of this, because this is what is represented as the normative setting. It becomes indoctrinated at a very young age, when a young person is learning about boundaries and types. What does media…

I agree with the idea that it would be uncomfortable to break, but I’m not so convinced that it wouldn’t have social benefits for both genders, rather than deficits. There have been some studies that suggest women’s washrooms tend to be places of socialization, which men’s washrooms lack (they tend more towards models…

Agreed. The more I think about it, the more that gendered toilets as the rule (rather than the exception) seem to reinforce gender differences.

I have done this in the wee hours while half asleep to use the loo in my own home when I was a kid (like around 3am or thereabouts). Generally speaking, the seat was always down despite me being the only girl in the house, and the youngest, so you can see how at least for me this would a great betrayal (again, this…

I’m all for unisex bathrooms but, for the reason you outlined (the experience of victims of sexual assault) and for other reasons (religious, etc.), I do think that while unisex should be made the predominant model, there also needs to be installed single-use bathrooms that are unisex in the same site.

I’ve heard of this problem, but not outside of academic texts on historical notions of vision.

Dunning-Kruger effect, baby, you should look into it.

Meh, lots of these are not that original to begin with, so it’s hardly a stretch that someone comes up with the same joke, I mean shit, several people were coming up with the frickin Theory of Relativity at the same time (independently), to pick an extreme example.

I’m with you; it’s probably not meant to read as classic anti-Semitism, but damn if not calling Wiener “The Nose” doesn’t read as some 1950s bullshit (not earlier, mind, because earlier was more explicit and less veiled in body stereotypes).

More to the point from an editorial stance with Jezebel: I get not…

Screw you and your good mood!!

Joking, but I do think buddy is a.) stupid as a bag of rocks and as such, b.) completely telecasts his own worldview in a totally transparent manner.

So we know his interior reality: everything he things ‘men’ think is part and parcel of what he thinks. Following this: he thinks gay men…

Nancy Drew began in the 30's — it’s 85 years old, so definitely not Baby Boomer alone or even originally, although it definitely made a mark there. I’m very late Gen X, and I loved Nancy Drew as a kid. I remember a spin off series that came out (in books) in the late 80s/early 90s and I LOVED it. There’s been no good…