sexist college student
August 24, 2009 3:18 PM Subscribe
I have about a year left of a computer science / crop science degree at ohio state university, and can no longer stand learning from female teachers, everyone, in their own special way, has been horrible. Where can I go to find a staff of all, or mostly males?
It's sexist, but ohhh so true.
This post was deleted for the following reason: If this is a question you need answered, please try again a week or more from now and find away to make it about the scheduling you're trying to accomplish and not about how you feel about women in general at OSU. This is totally not going to work like this. -- cortex
dude, you have got to be more forthcoming from that if you want this to be useful to you in any way.
posted by Think_Long at 3:24 PM on August 24, 2009
posted by Think_Long at 3:24 PM on August 24, 2009
Response by poster: I am also majoring in Crop Science, and have been having an impossible time scheduling classes based on sex of professor, most classes will not post a teacher until the quarter actually begins.
posted by Benzle at 3:24 PM on August 24, 2009
posted by Benzle at 3:24 PM on August 24, 2009
Can you please clarify what it is about female teachers that you are having a problem with? We may or may not be able to help you based on this answer, but either way, understanding the nature of the problem will help guide answers.
posted by iamkimiam at 3:25 PM on August 24, 2009
posted by iamkimiam at 3:25 PM on August 24, 2009
Where can I go to find a staff of all, or mostly males? It's sexist, but ohhh so true.
Hopefully, nowhere.
But in the absence of your perfect university, free of female instructors who can't possibly live up to your standards, maybe you should just cherry-pick the courses you take and make sure that your instructors have testicles. It'll take you a lot longer, but it will save you the heartbreak of looking for a university/program that's stuck in your 19th-century mindset.
posted by mudpuppie at 3:25 PM on August 24, 2009 [2 favorites]
Hopefully, nowhere.
But in the absence of your perfect university, free of female instructors who can't possibly live up to your standards, maybe you should just cherry-pick the courses you take and make sure that your instructors have testicles. It'll take you a lot longer, but it will save you the heartbreak of looking for a university/program that's stuck in your 19th-century mindset.
posted by mudpuppie at 3:25 PM on August 24, 2009 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: What do you mean more forthcoming?
Lets put it this way:
My female teachers:
I know way too much about them. I know how many kids they have, their husbands names, what they do on their off time. I know their personalities,
My male teachers:
I know nothing about their personal lives.
I am just expressing one of the problems I have with female teachers, they seem to me to be awful at teaching college level classes.
I think we got confused because they do such a great job with preschoolers and must have made the cultural assumption that this would scale up to the university level.
posted by Benzle at 3:28 PM on August 24, 2009
Lets put it this way:
My female teachers:
I know way too much about them. I know how many kids they have, their husbands names, what they do on their off time. I know their personalities,
My male teachers:
I know nothing about their personal lives.
I am just expressing one of the problems I have with female teachers, they seem to me to be awful at teaching college level classes.
I think we got confused because they do such a great job with preschoolers and must have made the cultural assumption that this would scale up to the university level.
posted by Benzle at 3:28 PM on August 24, 2009
You will not find a graduate school that does not hire women faculty in the US. I don't doubt there are poor female teachers in the world, but there are many bad male teachers too.
Can you describe specifically what problems you have encountered with your teachers? Doing so will let us get a sense of whether your problems in school stem from your sexism or the luck of the draw with teachers. I suspect it it is a little of the second and a lot of the first.
Once you complete your degree, you will have to work alongside women professionally. Workplaces that discriminate against female hires are illegal in the US. Therefore, sooner or later, you will have to address your sexism. Doing so in a therapeutic setting would be far less damaging to your career and reputation than having HR examine the consequences of sexist behavior, perhaps against your will.
posted by vincele at 3:30 PM on August 24, 2009
Can you describe specifically what problems you have encountered with your teachers? Doing so will let us get a sense of whether your problems in school stem from your sexism or the luck of the draw with teachers. I suspect it it is a little of the second and a lot of the first.
Once you complete your degree, you will have to work alongside women professionally. Workplaces that discriminate against female hires are illegal in the US. Therefore, sooner or later, you will have to address your sexism. Doing so in a therapeutic setting would be far less damaging to your career and reputation than having HR examine the consequences of sexist behavior, perhaps against your will.
posted by vincele at 3:30 PM on August 24, 2009
Troll.
posted by dacoit at 3:31 PM on August 24, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by dacoit at 3:31 PM on August 24, 2009 [3 favorites]
I am very confused. I am a student at OSU (Columbus campus) in computer science and can attest that almost all of the faculty are male. I've had two female instructors for computer science courses and both of them were very good and entirely professional.
posted by demiurge at 3:32 PM on August 24, 2009
posted by demiurge at 3:32 PM on August 24, 2009
This thread is going to be deleted soon, and in the meantime, it looks like it's going to be hilariously awful.
You're going to have a hard time finding an all-male faculty at any reputable research university, Kyle. Such things are looked upon with derision by the academy.
posted by mr_roboto at 3:33 PM on August 24, 2009
You're going to have a hard time finding an all-male faculty at any reputable research university, Kyle. Such things are looked upon with derision by the academy.
posted by mr_roboto at 3:33 PM on August 24, 2009
I am just expressing one of the problems I have with female teachers...
Bingo, dude. The problem isn't with the teachers.
posted by gyusan at 3:33 PM on August 24, 2009 [5 favorites]
Bingo, dude. The problem isn't with the teachers.
posted by gyusan at 3:33 PM on August 24, 2009 [5 favorites]
I think we got confused because they do such a great job with preschoolers and must have made the cultural assumption that this would scale up to the university level.
Are we playing another round of "Trolling or Just Plain Dumb"? I'm going to go with "Trolling" on this one.
posted by dersins at 3:33 PM on August 24, 2009
Are we playing another round of "Trolling or Just Plain Dumb"? I'm going to go with "Trolling" on this one.
posted by dersins at 3:33 PM on August 24, 2009
Response by poster: Also, they base their grades on how they "feel" about the student, relying heavily on "participation" grade, my male teachers almost NEVER have participation grades, this seems almost exclusively a female professor trait.
posted by Benzle at 3:34 PM on August 24, 2009
posted by Benzle at 3:34 PM on August 24, 2009
troll
posted by Think_Long at 3:35 PM on August 24, 2009
posted by Think_Long at 3:35 PM on August 24, 2009
Well, to try to be helpful before this gets removed forever: you're a raging sexist and are completely wrong in ascribing all these attributes to your instructors' gender. You have virtually no experience and are making things up based on your pre-existing assumptions. What you describe is simply not true in the world at large.
posted by GuyZero at 3:35 PM on August 24, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by GuyZero at 3:35 PM on August 24, 2009 [3 favorites]
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To quasi-answer your question, go almost anywhere else. CS is a hugely male-dominated field. Every CS school I can think of is nearly all male.
posted by GuyZero at 3:22 PM on August 24, 2009