# Argh! Annoying Lecturer of Death! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 28, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331 "2005-10-28T16:17:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/21 "2005-10-28T20:47:40Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > Sounds like she’s missing the entire point about lesbianism. Unless she’s staring in _Girls Just Want To Have Buns II"_, in which case I’d say she has it down pat. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Loblaw\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@Bob\_Loblaw\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Loblaw_1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/22 "2005-10-28T22:29:31Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > Sadly, yes. Unlike what would happen in a film, where one lone voice of reason rings out, bringing the foolish professor to task for their insane-ness…we’re all too cowardly. 😛 You don’t sound like a bunch of young men in college, you sound like a bunch of middle aged p-whupped husbands! ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/23 "2005-10-28T23:16:20Z")
> [@](#): > > You don’t sound like a bunch of young men in college, you sound like a bunch of middle aged p-whupped husbands! In our defense, we’re British! It’s culturally ingrained that we don’t argue or bring stuff up when… What? No, i’m not arguing with you… …I’ll shut up now. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Loblaw\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@Bob\_Loblaw\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Loblaw_1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/24 "2005-10-29T00:00:47Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > In our defense, we’re British! It’s culturally ingrained that we don’t argue or bring stuff up when… > > What? No, i’m not arguing with you… > > …I’ll shut up now. Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t understand. Well, she certainly wouldn’t get away with it on this side of the pond. God save the Queen and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/25 "2005-10-29T00:19:22Z")
Buy a small digital audio recorder. Record her anti-male rants, then send the recordings to some conservative talkshow hosts (e.g. Sean Hannity). Trust me, they’ll play them on the air. And the university will receive thousands of phone calls. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/26 "2005-10-29T00:19:36Z")
Sounds like she just needs a good lay. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/27 "2005-10-29T00:29:52Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Buy a small digital audio recorder. Record her anti-male rants, then send the recordings to some conservative talkshow hosts (e.g. Sean Hannity). Trust me, they’ll play them on the air. And the university will receive thousands of phone calls. And she’ll get famous, and will be so busy accepting invitations from progressive groups to lecture on her experience of right-wing persecution that she’ll have to drop her course load, so you’ll get another professor. Sounds like a win-win situation. Except that you’ll have it on your conscience that you gave more “nutty liberal professors” ammunition to people who already have way too much of it. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/28 "2005-10-29T02:12:57Z")
> [@](#): > > **Bob Loblaw** : You don’t sound like a bunch of young men in college, you sound like a bunch of middle aged p-whupped husbands! Spoken like a true American Male Twenty-Something. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/29 "2005-10-29T03:54:15Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > In our defense, we’re British! It’s culturally ingrained that we don’t argue or bring stuff up when… “When”? You mean there’s a time you _do_ argue or bring stuff up? > [@](#): > > […]and if she sees a lesbian couple with a child in public she’ll ignore them completely. Lucky them, I’d say. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/30 "2005-10-29T04:16:04Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > I have a really bloody annoying lecturer. She’s the type of feminist that gives all the others a bad name; picture the most sterotypical, over-the-top feminist you can imagine. That’s her. She sounds like a female chauvinist pig. If someone like this were a male she would be the sort of man who opresses women. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/31 "2005-10-29T08:08:28Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Buy a small digital audio recorder. Record her anti-male rants, then send the recordings to some conservative talkshow hosts (e.g. Sean Hannity). Trust me, they’ll play them on the air. And the university will receive thousands of phone calls. I’ve wanted to give my student a recorder just for the vaguely-sexual comments a math teacher at makes at this HS. “That’s the motion, girls. It’s all in the wrist. You’ll use that later on.” It doesn’t really apply (they were drawing circles), but he apparently makes it sound so sexual that it’s completely inappropriate. I’d LOVE a girl to look right at him, and say, “What was that?” and then, “I don’t understand. Could you explain that?” But she’d probably end up on his hit-list and pay for it all year. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/32 "2005-10-29T13:27:24Z")
The bad thing is, I suspect is she were suspended for her actions she wouldn’t learn anything from the discipline. It would likely be viewed as more oppression, and her fire would burn even brighter. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/33 "2005-10-29T14:26:27Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > Every lecture, however, she has a habit of picking out a guy in the first few rows (although sometimes she’s walked up the hall to talk to “the cowardly men at the back”) and had a go at him. For being male. It’ll be literally things like “So, what do you think about this? What have _you_ personally done? Because if you don’t _personally_ turn up to picket places where women don’t recieve equal pay, you’re part of the problem, you stupid male!” (Yes, she will call people, personally, stupid). All the while the guy keeps sinking into his seat in embarrassment. And she’ll keep going on at this one person for about ten minutes- longer if they try to debate the point; “But I do think men and women are equal” “Of course you do, now i’ve **told** you they are. Honestly, men just can’t think for themselves”. Evil and grating. My response would be something along the lines of “Well, I’m sitting here listening to you make a total fool of yourself, and that’s NOT what I paid this school large amounts of money to have you do. So I suggest that you hike back up to the front of the class and teach the subject matter and not your half-assed opinions.” However, I would make sure that I had a pocket tape recorder going, because I’m quite sure she would find a way to knife me on my grade. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/34 "2005-10-29T16:53:15Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > In our defense, we’re British! It’s culturally ingrained that we don’t argue or bring stuff up when…[/SIZE] You can’t fool me. I’ve seen tape of your representatives in Parliament flaying the opposition party on Bloody Idiotic Prime Minister’s Questions Day, or whatever that’s called. I guess they’re not British???!? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/35 "2005-10-29T17:08:46Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > I’ve wanted to give my student a recorder just for the vaguely-sexual comments a math teacher at makes at this HS. “That’s the motion, girls. It’s all in the wrist. You’ll use that later on.” **Not** a good idea. It is a crime to record a teacher in the classroom without their consent, and it carries a pretty hefty penalty. Really all you need to do is call the principal and file a complaint. This will go into the teacher’s file, and they will be “made aware” of the complaint. This usually fixes things. If not, then you have a paper trail to work with. If done right, the teacher will never know **who** filed the complaint, just that it was filed. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/36 "2005-10-29T17:16:21Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > You can’t fool me. I’ve seen tape of your representatives in Parliament flaying the opposition party on Bloody Idiotic Prime Minister’s Questions Day, or whatever that’s called. > > I guess they’re not British???!? That’s what I was thinking. If anything Brit’s are more aggresive in political debate than we are. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/37 "2005-10-29T17:26:18Z")
Is “misandrist” the correct term for a female chauvinist? ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/38 "2005-10-29T18:02:18Z")
> [@](#): > > You can’t fool me. I’ve seen tape of your representatives in Parliament flaying the opposition party on Bloody Idiotic Prime Minister’s Questions Day, or whatever that’s called. > > I guess they’re not British???!? Oh, you’re allowed to be mean in politics. Never rude, though; being rude would pretty much be a death knell for any politician (that’s why they save it all up for their personal time) > [@](#): > > That’s what I was thinking. If anything Brit’s are more aggresive in political debate than we are. Well, that’s because our leaders actually debate each other (Yes, i’m aware you have the “debates” in the presidential race, but after that you never see the Pres talking directly to an opposition party member). And, _shock, gasp_ they debate the third party candidate, too. Yes, that’s right, you heard me; we have a _third_ large political party. Don’t all faint at once. > [@](#): > > Really all you need to do is call the principal and file a complaint. This will go into the teacher’s file, and they will be “made aware” of the complaint. This usually fixes things. If not, then you have a paper trail to work with. If done right, the teacher will never know who filed the complaint, just that it was filed. I think this is what i’m going to do…as long as it’s anonymous. Yep, i’m a pussy. But i’d rather not be the guy she picked on every lecture for the rest of the year, which is what I imagine I would be if it were known I’d complained. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/39 "2005-10-29T18:07:07Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **Not** a good idea. It is a crime to record a teacher in the classroom without their consent, and it carries a pretty hefty penalty. Cite, please. As far as I know it is legal to covertly record a face to face conversation, and I assume lectures, which are public speech, would be even less likely to be subject to recording restrictions. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331/40 "2005-10-29T18:16:19Z")
So would it be OK for a student to stand up and say, “The Right Honourable Lecturer is being a disrespectful horse’s ass”? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-annoying-lecturer-of-death/328331.md?page=3)