Why exactly is this “garbage, utter and complete”? You first criticize assignments with political messaging, but analyzing gender issues is an issue of sociology, not politics. Do you think that men’s magazines are off-limits for analysis? Or that students can study men’s magazines, but must ignore what they say about women? Or that students can study gender issues in men’s magazines as long as they conclude that an article about how to film your girlfriend masturbating and posting it on the internet is actually uplifting to women?
(Please don’t interpret this as an attack. I’m honestly curious as to what makes this assignment unacceptable.)
Typically there is a “correct” answer or position, and woe to the student who takes a contrarian position.
Magiver
November 11, 2006, 4:57am
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Yes and the flip side of threatening my grades would be… unpleasant. Got a teacher fired once for being an asshole. All it takes is a group of students waving their checkbooks. Its a business after all.