I loved teaching high schoolers so much you guys but so much of my energy was devoted to dealing with crazy parents and appeasing the uber-PTA crowd. When you’re that involved in your kids’ school life, you are taking teachers’ attention away from creative lesson planning and timely grading. Moreover, it’s not like…

Its better than eggs!

Completely agreed. And I also hope that she realizes the class (and celeb) privilege that is shielding her from the kind of struggles most trans people in the US have to deal with.

Counterpoint: this is awesome

You are not the first person to mention this and every time it comes up I do a little scissor kick with glee. Just the idea of it is great.

My personal revenge fantasy involves them stalling, the democrats getting the white house and either Hillary or Bern nominating Obama for the position.

I hope they stall, stall, stall and shoot themselves in the by doing so. Then president Sanders or Clinton can appoint a liberal instead of the moderate Obama certainly would have appointed.

It goes farther than that, I think. Not only are young women subordinating their voices to their male peers, I think they’re still trying to appease their male peers with their bodies without understanding that having to appease, impress and please men at all to be “liked” or “approved” is an expression of society’s…

Old men. Ugh they suck. “You’re too pretty to be a lawyer” is code for “shouldn’t you have just married a rich person and not be bothering me with your ‘words’ and your ‘legal analysis’? My wrinkly old penis is too distractable”

You will get piled on, but I agree. I didn’t see anything shocking about her assessment that young women tend to more subservient to men. Like...that’s how it goes. It takes some time to even notice the sexism in our world. You have to work awhile before you feel it. Have a couple crap relationships before it clicks.…

I wonder if that’s also about the men being far more gunners and speaking up in class to demonstrate their intelligence. Like, in my 1L class the person who ended up winning the Best Brief award during the moot court competition was a woman who just never spoke up, so we really didn’t have much of an opportunity to…

You've just described my entire career.

OMG this! My threshold for contributing to class is that I thoroughly understand the material AND have something substantial AND novel to add. With guys, they seem to believe they’re blessing the proceedings with the sound of their inane, uninformed fucking voices.

i’m sure these aren’t the same guys who talk over female colleagues 5 years later.

It’s a lot of ego. And god forbid a woman take an interest in something like family law. I got a verbal pat on the head every time someone discovered that my biggest ambition wasn’t to be partner in a huge corporate law office.

After TAing more than a dozen classes, I wish I could say I was even a little bit surprised by this. Moderately prepared male students speak up more than the highest-achieving female students, and then other students assume they must know what they’re talking about or they wouldn’t volunteer so much. Exceptions…

This applies 1000% in law school. I even got what we call “book awards” for having the highest grade in both of our writing classes, and I was still mansplained to every time we had a study group.

I know the Clinton / Sanders competition is a hot button topic around here, but I for one am pleased that Dem voters have two very qualified candidates to pick from. It seems highly revealing that the Republican contest is such a clown car cluster fuck. There really is no clear “winner,” just who is less of a total…

Bush II and his bewildering 70-80% GOP approval rating.

“Referring to diamonds as “overrated,” Leifkes told BuzzFeed, “It’s almost a contest of who has the biggest ring and whose fiancé loves them the most, and here I am with the coolest ring I’ve ever seen in my life!”