Yep. For many students (male and female) it’s almost a reflex. They walk into a class on day one, and if the instructor has an accent, they automatically write them off. It doesn’t matter how fluent the instructor is. An accent almost always means worse teaching evaluations. One of my good friends is Indian, and as…

They really only ever “well, actually” the female professors. With the men, they’ll often try a similar move, but it almost always starts with deference to the prof rather than challenging them.

Dear god. You should have been sainted for that. The worst I ever had was underclassmen in my field explain my own field to me, not someone with no fucking idea what the field even was.

Yep, I am a lit instructor. Contrary to my sassy internet posting, I like to think that I’m actually a pretty accommodating teacher. It’s a skill to be able to take arrogant student comments and pull something useful out of them without the whole class seeing right through you. I’ve gotten better at that as I’ve…

I can only hope to stumble upon you as my face-serving professor. Sounds like you’re some sort of lit professor, however, and all of my classes from here on out are law or politics related.

I did go through a series of facial expressions that can only be summarized in gif form:

There was this guy in my critical thinking class last year that asked ridiculous questions that he would stretch into 15 minute discussions with the professor like “can I make up my own symbols for truth tables?”

OH MY GOD YES. Every semester I have at least one guy in my classes who seems to want to assert himself as the authority since he’s spent five weeks reading this stuff, and I’ve only spent eleven years of undergrad and post-grad studying this stuff in minute detail. But go on, tell me all that I don’t know...

Can I also point out that one of the Trump people’s talking points is that Hillary called Bill’s mistresses “names” and “threatened” Juanita Broderick. But the harshest name I can find is that Hillary once referred to Monica Lewinsky as “looney tunes” and the “threat” to Broderick was that at a public fundraiser,…

Sorta reminds me of an old joke:

I thought the black guy who asked how Trump would be a President for everyone got the shaft of the night. Trump responded by talking about violence in inner cities. Not all black people live in the inner city you racist asshole!

My favorite party of the debate? The juxtaposition of him saying he’d imprison Hillary Clinton were he president like some dime-store dictator, and then offering her an almost effusive compliment at the end of the debate about her perserverance. I also love that her compliment was far more weak because when he offered…

I was waiting for him to lift his mic and beat her upside the head. His arms twitched a couple of times.

It Follows (and grabs you by the pussy)

Which single issue do you think people are rejecting Pence for? Homophobia? Misogyny? Economic incompetence? Subversion of the separation of church and state? Consistent opposition to green energy? Opposition to any form of gun control? Opposition to health care reform? Xenophobic anti-immigrant views? Strong…

Maybe because his most prominent single issue say “lol fuck you. Discrimination should be legal” to about 5 percent of the population.

Also, he screwed over Indiana schools: http://bloom-at.blogspot.com/2016/07/pence-negative-impact.html?m=1

It’s not a single issue, it’s merely the most prominent one that comes to many people’s minds. Pence is bad on nearly all civil rights, but also on the economy. Pence managed to start an AIDS epidemic in his own state because he hates women so much and also wants to cut taxes for his buddies. Jez commenters will…

As others have said before me...he should be forced to carry this unviable campaign to term. His (political) life is in danger? Too bad, so sad. That precious, precious presidential campaign is alive (even if hideously deformed and its death is both inevitable and painful for those that love it). It would be murder …

If he is considering running for president in 2020, he is killing his chances by sticking around. But as a super lib, I’m fine with him ruining his chances.