Comments | lily_liedtome: throwing a fit

lily_liedtome

throwing a fit

Dec 03, 2008 18:47

I kind of hate everything right now.

My Women and the Body teacher gave us a final project that requires anyone doing it to be cisgender. When I pointed this out she gave me a different assignment which is to, "reflect over the time period in which you have made the transition away from traditional female-sex body norms."

WHAT. THE. FUCK .

a) ( Read more... )

james find your spine, blah blah life

Comments 8

mxtape December 4 2008, 02:16:31 UTC

Yeah, that's really inappropriate. I'm sorry that happened, what a shitty teacher. I had someone like that my first year at college, ugh.

If I were you, I'd talk to her or email her to let her know that and suggest a topic you'd feel comfortable writing on instead. Or just ask her for non-personal essay topic, if it comes to that.

>:( I hate Women's Studies teachers who have no clue. *nurses grudge against 2nd wavers lol*

♥

lily_liedtome December 5 2008, 19:37:57 UTC

♥

Unfortunately i didn't really have time to ask for a new topic because the paper was due... yesterday. I wrote the thing, but from a totally different angle, talking about the limits of visibility as a form of activism -- basically ignored the part about talking about my life. Because, NO.

And yes, second wavers are DEFINITELY NOT my cuppa. >:(

clex_monkie89 December 4 2008, 02:18:32 UTC

WHAT THE FUCK?! Dude, you should totally ask her when she decided to embrace "traditional female-sex body norms."

That's incredibly offensive of her, whether she meant it or not.

forcedmovement December 4 2008, 02:43:49 UTC

Oh my god. I'm sorry, bb. That is fucking ridiculous. I agree with mxtape that you should email her and explain how invasive that really is.

moondarri December 4 2008, 02:44:30 UTC

guh. that's not even a good topic. like, that's a badly-worded, confusing subject. that's a thing with - like, when i was doing feminist philosophy, & we studied some interesting shit, but everything about it was cisgendered as hell.

i'm going with the ask-for-something-different approach, if you can. ♥,

scatterheart December 4 2008, 07:35:52 UTC

Wow, way to be inclusive and open-minded there. >:( I second clex_monkie89's suggestion to ask her when she decided to embrace those "norms". (Or maybe turn the assignment around and reflect over the time period in which you realized that "traditional female-sex body norms" and the base for this assignment were bullshit?)