Every time I take a class online I convince myself that it will be better than the last time and I think I've finally learned my lesson that it doesn't get any better. In grad school, there was the sexist man who couldn't spell for shit and was always calling women "Baby." He was in almost every class I took and we got into a mighty row. Last time I took a class online at the community college, where I'm almost done my certification (thank god), there was this nutjob who taught it. He had a nervious breakdown half through the class and someone else had to stand in. I did a bunch of projects, but I don't think I learned anything about educational assessment.
This time I'm taking women's history and it's as bad as it sounds. I was going to drop it because I've been having a lot of health problems mixed with family health problems, but the prof told me that I can't drop it because I have the highest grade in the class and she NEEDS me to stay in. So, last week we covered Russia and pretty much it's efforts towards women's equality since 1875 until post ww2ish. We had to find a modern news article about women in Russia and talk about how it related to the past. I found a great article about spousal abuse from BBC. Many other women in the class were having rpoblems, so I told them all to look at BBC, as American news is crap internationally.
So, one woman posted about Russian women and abortions. I don't really care what other people think about abortion, as long as I don't have to a) hear about it or b) live up to their standards. My uterus is mine and mine alone. If you want a say in it, I'll write out a lease agreement and you can pay $1200 a month rent. Anyway, she was going on and on about abortions and then she said "Maybe one day Russians will get some family values." Yes, the crazy bitch went there. I took a deep breath and hit "respond." Now, I'm petty and I'm impulsive. My guy is constantly telling me not to pick fights with people over stuff like this, but I just can't help it. So I responded telling her that EVERY culture has family values and that having values different from hers does not make Russians a) valueless or b) bad.
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That's why the professor wanted you to stay in the class! I like the idea of renting out my uterus. (That doesn't sound right, but you know what I mean.)
When I was in college a graduation requirement was two courses on the Bible. The first semester, the professor began by saying that there are many ways to look at the Bible: historically, written to the requirements of King James and several more ways that I can't remember (inerrant world of God wasn't mentioned). Since this class was open to anyone in the community who wanted to take it, of course, there were some church ladies taking it. They got so mad that the prof. didn't believe that God actually whispered in the monks ears, giving dictation as it were, that they ACTUALLY prayed he would get ill and could not complete the course.
You can see this coming, right? He did get sick and they were high fiving all over the place-they'd gotten rid of the Godless heathen!
The upshot was that the class was taken over by the minister of The First Baptist Church and dang if HE didn't start off talking about the 8 ways to look at the Bible!
I don't think you are being petty Jilly, I would have responded too, and probably not as nicely as you did.
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