I had an experience at a university in a college where a very old professor was giving a guest lecture and happened to refer to past people he worked with by describing their physical appearance.
Now this is normal for older adults. They use mnemonic strategies. The prof literally described every single person he brought up. Yet one of these people was a good looking woman. She had been a grad student like 30 years ago and he said something like. “She was a very striking woman and had long hair”.
That’s it. Not "if I had been younger " or “all the other grads wanted to bang her”. Just that short simple remark.
A guy in my class lost his shit. Wanted this 75 year old esteemed professor fired.
Yes. Fired.
He got all the grad students who were in the class that day to sign a petition. They all signed. I refused. A woman, btw.
He tried to bully me to sign it. Him and few others cornered me in the hallway.
I said. “Listen dude. Ive experienced actual sexual discrimination. That wasn’t it.”. And I also pointed out that he should know, being a psych major, that it was obviously a mnemonic strategy to describe appearance because the prof did it for every person he mentioned. (Some were quite amusing).
This guy wouldn’t let it go.
After the prof made a public apology. Twice. This guy still wanted him fired. Eventually the dept chair came to the class and said basically. “Stfu. He’s not getting fired. He already apologized.”
To add more b.s to the story. A few weeks later. Same class. Different guest speaker (class had different one every week), this new guest speaker. A young hip charismatic professor. Joked about some guy being hot and him being distracted by it.
And the guy came off straight so it was like a joke.
And that’s fine.
Except. The guy who was gunning for the professor to get fired, along with many other classmates were sitting there laughing and joking a long and I just sat there watching them all. Like. Wtf.
WTF is wrong with these fucking people.
This all went down my 2nd month of grad school.
You could say I was quite concerned I had chose the wrong university.
Also. The old professor. Yeah. Jew. Old Jew. You know that guy had to deal with real discrimination in his life. And then here he was being harassed over saying a woman from 30 years ago was beautiful.
I had an experience at a university in a college where a very old professor was giving a guest lecture and happened to refer to past people he worked with by describing their physical appearance.
Now this is normal for older adults. They use mnemonic strategies. The prof literally described every single person he brought up. Yet one of these people was a good looking woman. She had been a grad student like 30 years ago and he said something like. “She was a very striking woman and had long hair”.
That’s it. Not "if I had been younger " or “all the other grads wanted to bang her”. Just that short simple remark.
A guy in my class lost his shit. Wanted this 75 year old esteemed professor fired.
Yes. Fired.
He got all the grad students who were in the class that day to sign a petition. They all signed. I refused. A woman, btw.
He tried to bully me to sign it. Him and few others cornered me in the hallway.
I said. “Listen dude. Ive experienced actual sexual discrimination. That wasn’t it.”. And I also pointed out that he should know, being a psych major, that it was obviously a mnemonic strategy to describe appearance because the prof did it for every person he mentioned. (Some were quite amusing).
This guy wouldn’t let it go.
After the prof made a public apology. Twice. This guy still wanted him fired. Eventually the dept chair came to the class and said basically. “Stfu. He’s not getting fired. He already apologized.”
To add more b.s to the story. A few weeks later. Same class. Different guest speaker (class had different one every week), this new guest speaker. A young hip charismatic professor. Joked about some guy being hot and him being distracted by it.
And the guy came off straight so it was like a joke. And that’s fine.
Except. The guy who was gunning for the professor to get fired, along with many other classmates were sitting there laughing and joking a long and I just sat there watching them all. Like. Wtf.
WTF is wrong with these fucking people.
This all went down my 2nd month of grad school.
You could say I was quite concerned I had chose the wrong university.
Also. The old professor. Yeah. Jew. Old Jew. You know that guy had to deal with real discrimination in his life. And then here he was being harassed over saying a woman from 30 years ago was beautiful.