Yes.

I wasn't shocked by the outcome. I think it's a shitty thing to do, professionally. I think that people need to have one another's back now and again and if s/he had a problem with what happened, then s/he should have brought it up with him, not gone to the administration about it, because I think we all know what the…

Yes, let's get into this philosophical debate because that's exactly what happened here?

Uh, here, I typed this to another commenter:

You are all repeating the same things over and over again, but there are two issues. 1. Gmail is a web-based email client. Delete the emails, go into the trash, delete them permanently and they're gone. The co-teacher isn't liable and there's no way s/he could get fired for the other guy's transgressions. 2. Yes, it's…

Too be honest, his co-teacher seems like a rat fink. Accept his apology and move on. If you really thought there might be a bigger issue, keep tabs on it, but there's no reason to get the guy fired.

Well, since I also went there and I come from a very poor family, I probably have *some* room to judge how and why people get in. Did she most likely have a lot more free time to prepare and rework her portfolio before applying? Yes. Did even one single person responsible for her admission decisions know who the eff…

Yeah, well, she's also talented enough to have gotten in to the Iowa Writer's Workshop. So there's that.

I got away with murder, and I'm not famous.

Uh, I'm not a trans person and I've never even commented on the subject before. That's a hideously offensive comparison that was made and mostly I found it irritating that she continued to defend it as if it were an example of deep thought and was conversation worthy. I'm sick of people behaving as if every dumb…

Oh, I'm sorry I didn't go out of my way to fucking educate you, my fucking lord. I see how it's so hard, when people protest, to fucking do a little bit of research and thinking on your own. To ask yourself, Now, huh, why would people be protesting this? And then figure it the fuck out. Jesus christ, I am a teacher,…

Shame on you for continuing to fail to comprehend how ridiculous and frankly insulting what you said is, yes, yes. Great conversation on a topic that's not idiotic at all!

It still doesn't make it an intelligent comment or a comparison worth giving weight to.

Yes. And yet somehow the OP thinks there's an obvious connection between having small breasts and LITERALLY BEING BORN IN A BODY OF THE WRONG SEX.

I think you still really need to do some thinking on this. There's a difference with being unhappy with one's body and the dysphoria caused by literally being in a body that is the wrong sex. Seriously, you can keep saying you are "just asking", but how about you try to do some deep thinking on the topic, and the…

I think you should think on this a bit more. I say this as a very small-breasted woman.

Oh, I was made to write a parody of it in undergrad. Did a pretty damn good job, I think, and wrote a story about a man who could only find a job teaching composition at a tech college. And I'm officially done with it for the rest of my life. Oh, did I mention, I ended up teaching English 101 at a tech college many…

Uh. Yeah.

I see you're looking for responses. I'll see your troll raise with a "Pray tell, sir, pray tell."

Joan Didion I'll agree with. And trust me, as a student of Robinson's, I have some love for her. Maybe it's because I know her personally that I just think, "Nope!" But Toni Morrison, yes, perhaps. And boy oh boy is that woman lovely.