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DrNerd:
Quote from: rohina on 2009 June 12, 04:22:57
teebs, you are hilarious. You have posted more than 7 times today. Does this mean you, too, have no life?
Dammit, rohina, stop trying to indoctrinate the noob to your no-life-having ways.
teebs:
Quote from: professorbutters on 2009 June 12, 03:37:34
It's been my experience that when a person new to MATY posts something like this, they almost inevitably turn out to be a tard, probably because anyone who has the time to brag on an online forum about how they have a life does not really have a life.
My ten posts definitely suggest that I spend all of my time online.
Quote from: professorbutters on 2009 June 12, 03:37:34
One person's balance and showing all sides of an issue is another person's "indoctrination." This is why there is such strict protection for academic freedom on campus. I am especially careful not to use my position as a bully pulpit. I teach in a state school and generally I'm careful not even to reveal my religious or political affiliations. But even teaching Renaissance literature, I'm bound to step on some toes. Some people do not want to be exposed to readings in which any homoerotic desire is even possible: in their view, Antonio suffers all the stuff he does for Bassanio because they are just Real Good Pals. You wouldn't think you could get into trouble by explaining about double predestination, but I've had students (in the nicest possible way) say to me that they were SURE Christians couldn't have believed anything like that in the sixteenth century because THEY were Christians and THEY didn't believe that. (I pointed them, also in the nicest possible way, towards John Calvin.)
Wait, wait, wait... they weren't just really good pals?
I applaud your efforts. From this and prior posts you seem to be an educated and articulate human being and very likely an excellent teacher. Can you deny that some professors do use their positions as bully pulpits? As to the first sentence of the above quote, to some extent that is true, but there is a limit. I've experienced first hand a tenured professor using her position to further her own sociopolitical agenda. I found it incredibly disturbing to watch her attempt to manipulate her students while the younger ones never batted an eye. Again, I realize professors like her are the exception and not the rule, and though I may not have articulated this fact, I have a tremendous amount of respect for anyone who dedicates themselves to teaching.
Quote from: professorbutters on 2009 June 12, 03:37:34
I am sure an angry student could transform that into my pushing a radical anti-Christian homosexual agenda on my students. There are morons in all walks of life. And some of them run FrontPage.
What does Malaysian television programming have to do with the anything?
Quote from: rohina on 2009 June 12, 04:22:57
teebs, you are hilarious. You have posted more than 7 times today. Does this mean you, too, have no life?
Absolutely. At this very moment I'm in my tighty-whiteys, eating butter pecan frosting straight from the container and listening to Michael Bolton singing "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes". I epic fail.
lemmiwinks:
I may wish to join this "blue-collar elitist" cult. Where might I find more information about it?
DrNerd:
Quote from: lemmiwinks on 2009 June 12, 04:51:49
I may wish to join this "blue-collar elitist" cult. Where might I find more information about it?
Get in your car, drive away from civilization, and look for a bar with peeling paint and a neon Budweiser logo in the front window. There will be rusty pickup trucks outside, and at least one of them will have a dog tied up with baling twine in the bed. There will be guns in the rear window, and probably at least one Confederate flag visible. When you walk in the bar, it will smell like stale smoke, and there will be a spittoon somewhere. The jukebox only plays country music. Everything will be sticky. The bartender is surly, and your beverage choices will be Budweiser, Miller, PBR, Busch, Jim Beam, and Jack Daniel's. When you have found a place that meets these requirements, you will have found the blue-collar elitist cult.
rohina:
Quote from: teebs on 2009 June 12, 04:50:27
I applaud your efforts. From this and prior posts you seem to be an educated and articulate human being and very likely an excellent teacher. Can you deny that some professors do use their positions as bully pulpits? As to the first sentence of the above quote, to some extent that is true, but there is a limit. I've experienced first hand a tenured professor using her position to further her own sociopolitical agenda. I found it incredibly disturbing to watch her attempt to manipulate her students while the younger ones never batted an eye. Again, I realize professors like her are the exception and not the rule, and though I may not have articulated this fact, I have a tremendous amount of respect for anyone who dedicates themselves to teaching.
I knew this was a case of individual butthurt. I bet she was an evil feminist, too, right?
@prof buttsecks: I once had a student write a paper about how, since people thought Shakespeare's sonnets were written to a male, it must have been his son, and so it was platonic, filial love.
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