Unless she’s staring in Girls Just Want To Have Buns II", in which case I’d say she has it down pat.
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.
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.
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.
Sounds like she just needs a good lay.
–Cliffy
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.
Spoken like a true American Male Twenty-Something. 
“When”?
You mean there’s a time you do argue or bring stuff up?
Lucky them, I’d say. :rolleyes:
She sounds like a female chauvinist pig. If someone like this were a male she would be the sort of man who opresses women.
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.
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.
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.
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???!?
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.
That’s what I was thinking. If anything Brit’s are more aggresive in political debate than we are.
Is “misandrist” the correct term for a female chauvinist?
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)
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.
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.
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.
So would it be OK for a student to stand up and say, “The Right Honourable Lecturer is being a disrespectful horse’s ass”? 