Stupid Stuff we Learn in College, and the Professors that Teach it. - From the Faggiest Sociologists to the Stupidest Historians

I'm in class right now, and my sociology prof. just said that there is a societal panic of detransitioners and how most people that get "gender affirming care" report being quite happy with their treatment. Also he's using the Trevor Project as a source. No bias there. Also transgender suicide is caused by how people treat them, never mind that there are no differences in suicide rates based on location. He's also crapping on conversion therapy, which I have no expertise on and will defer to those who are more knowledgeable than I on the subject.
 
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I will say that most of my profs were actually very good, which is what you get for doing an empirical subject at a decent uni before Current Century. I do remember one visiting guy telling me in no uncertain terms that viruses had never been found to cause cancer and us having a huge spergy argument about it in front of a packed lecture theatre of about 600 people that resulted in him yelling at me amd calling me ‘miss’ a lot and me insisting I’d meet him back here in an hour after I’d hit the library for the relevant papers (this is before wide online access.)
I was right, he was wrong but he never did accept my offer of proof.
 
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I liked most of my professors and classes, with the caveat that I attended and graduated right around the time SJW level political correctness and troonery really started pozzing academics. It was still pretty easy to have sane discussion about troons in even the gender class I took. Can't imagine it'd be like that now.

I took a sociology of African American pop culture class as an elective and was one of only two white people in the class. We watched stuff like Birth of a Nation and The Cosby Show before analyzing whether they would be considered stereotypical or even racist today. Other biggest memories from that class were the older woman student that got in trouble for ranting about the word "nigger" and the student that openly expressed how hot I Spy era Bill Cosby was.

One of the most unironically profound educational moments I ever had was in eighth grade history class. We were watching a video about Pearl Harbor that interviewed one of the Japanese bombers. When he expressed that he was proud at attacking the American enemy, my classmates and I were horrified. How could he be so happy about bombing us? The teacher pointed out that as a soldier he was doing his job and what he thought was right for he and his country, much like how our soldiers in the Middle East were. I think about that a lot. Not just the message about how experiences influence perspectives, but also how that sort of critical thinking seems to be rarer and rarer in academia (and especially online, where someone is very easily persona non grata for saying something as innocuous as women deserve their own spaces).
 
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seri0us said:
If sexuality is malleable enough to be a choice, then what's the problem with conversion therapy?
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But they don't think that sexuality is truly malleable, they think you can be born in the wrong body; essentially, they were always like that. Little Timmy who was groomed at six years old was always gay. Of course I disagree, I think sexuality is a learned behavior like so many other human behaviors. If sexuality is a learned behavior, then there is a way to re-learn it. Perhaps we have not found a humane and effective way to do it, but there is a way. After all, Little Timmy was taught to be gay, the issue is that no one in his right mind would want to employ similar methods to teach him to be straight.
 
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Had a course specifically about the culture of family. Entire semester we learned about troons. Had to write about trans prostitutes calling their pimps Daddy. One day we have an assignment to make little family trees using industry short hand. Professor posts a vid complicating the entire assignment by being nonbinary as there are only male and female symbols and the trees are based either around male or female lineage. Implies because his grandmother never explicitly stated her gender she must be trans and fudges up her section as well. Speaks with much contention over being raised in a two parent household.
 
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Had a course specifically about the culture of family. Entire semester we learned about troons. Had to write about trans prostitutes calling their pimps Daddy. One day we have an assignment to make little family trees using industry short hand. Professor posts a vid complicating the entire assignment by being nonbinary as there are only male and female symbols and the trees are based either around male or female lineage. Implies because his grandmother never explicitly stated her gender she must be trans and fudges up her section as well. Speaks with much contention over being raised in a two parent household.
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Yikes, how are you even supposed to do a family tree without the biological sex of every person involved? I hope I never have to do anything like that.
 
One of my teachers used spend more than half of the class speaking about politics and other related subjects that had nothing to do with the subject, he essentially said that right wing people have no soul or sensibility lmao and when a fellow student committed suicide he used the tragedy to point fingers at a politician that he doesn't like saying how it was his fault for spreading hate and reinforcing cisheteronormative homogeny, pure lunacy and he wasn't the exception.
 
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One of my teachers used spend more than half of the class speaking about politics and other related subjects that had nothing to do with the subject, he essentially said that right wing people have no soul or sensibility lmao and when a fellow student committed suicide he used the tragedy to point fingers at a politician that he doesn't like saying how it was his fault for spreading hate and reinforcing cisheteronormative homogeny, pure lunacy and he wasn't the exception.
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I had a composition instructor who would open every class with current events, usually with a left wing slant. I don't understand why she did this, I just wanted to learn how to write, not hear about the latest mass shooting or about how those damn republicans are trying to step on the bisexual hula dancers or whatever.
 
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Does anyone else hate the way that math teachers pronounce 'root'? In my experience, they all pronounce it more like 'rut'. If this seems mild compared to what I previously complained about in this thread, that's because it is. I made this thread to scream into the void about anything that irritates me about the college 'experience' and to commiserate with whoever else wants to post. Stay sane people, it's hard enough even if you're not in college.
 
My first assignment in Political Science 101 was to read a five-page PDF about Christopher Columbus and then write a short essay. After reading through the first two pages, I realized it was anti-Columbus propaganda. There was no title but there was an author: Howard Zinn. I didn't know who that was so I googled the name. After several minutes, I discovered he's the Jew bastard who popularized the anti-Columbus movement.

The next day, the professor asked the class what they thought of Columbus after reading the article. I was shocked that no one in the class questioned what they had read and all just took the article at face value. Apparently, I was the only person who bothered to look up the author.

The professor ended up being an alright guy. He was an old-school lefty hippie, but he actually tolerated dissenting opinions. When discussing the news, he would call out the Democrats on some their obvious bull shit. I even got hints that he had some antitroon opinions.

He was the kind of professor I didn't agree with but still respected. I was more upset that so many people in the class seemed to lack critical thinking.


https://web.archive.org/web/2021030...g/intercollegiate-review/problem-howard-zinn/
 
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