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"Anon" (tjsielsistneb) 01/22/2016 at 11:55 • Filed to: None

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My women lit professor took the train to coo coo town. She has, in the past hour, complained that when she was a child europe and asia were taught as the same continent called Eurasia (I know the term exists but they’ve never been the same continent).

She has also insinuated that the mccater projection (pretty much every modern world map you’ve ever seen) was a conspiracy to make africa appear smaller (because curvature of the earth isn’t a thing apparently) they did this to make Africa seem like a lesser force in the world.

She has also gone on and on and on about how bad straight white guys are like we’re all lavishly rich and terrible. And you know what’s terrible, I can’t call her out on this shit because I am one of only two guys in the class and the only white male. Anything I say will just be brought down by the majority. But, I have to take this class so I guess I’m sucking it up and dealing with it. I just would like to actually talk about literature instead of my professor’s personal beliefs. Send prayers.

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Anon 01/22/2016 at 11:59

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I would have soooo much fun with that teacher. lol

TheHondaBro > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:02

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Did she say anything about straight brown guys?

Stapleface > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:03

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Why in the hell do you need a women's lit class? That just sounds like a class for women to bitch about dudes for 16 weeks.

soapbox/ Why do we even need gender or race specific classes? Aren’t you promoting gender and race inequality by separating them into separate classes? /soapbox

Ash78, voting early and often > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:05

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She has also insinuated that the mccater projection (pretty much every modern world map you’ve ever seen) was a conspiracy to make africa appear smaller

I’ve always called that just an unfortunate consequence of the people on Greenland and Baffin Island. They seem to hold way too much sway in the cartographic world.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheHondaBro 01/22/2016 at 12:05

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Anon > Stapleface 01/22/2016 at 12:06

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Because LSU is stupid. I agree, maybe back when academi wasn’t as diverse as it is today they were required. However in your typical American literature class you read about authors of all race and gender.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:08

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It’s your job as a white male to fuck with her shit. It’s real convenient to just make up shit and blame it on straight white males. Maybe to fuck with her, you should say you’re gay, not that sexual orientation has anything to do with how terrible a person you can be.

In any case, if she’s white, too, you can tell her she’s the product of a straight, white male and that she’s also terrible. She sounds like she's a real turd.

samssun > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:08

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Welcome to the progressive world of “tolerance”. You’ll find them very accepting of all views that agree with theirs.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:08

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u thought that taking this class was going to get you laid, didnt you

Future next gen S2000 owner > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:10

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Next time she goes on a rant, raise your hand and ask if any actual womens lit. will be on the test.

Gotta deadpan this one. If you start smiling it will ruin it.

spanfucker retire bitch > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:11

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The Mercator projection is complete bullshit, but I don’t think there’s an organized and vested conspiracy behind it. It vastly underestimates the size of continents like Africa, and overestimates landmasses like Greenland. There’s a reason that National Geographic uses the Winkel-Tripel and previously the Robinson.

In addition, there is absolutely something to be said about the effect that the map projection has had on people’s beliefs on the size of Africa as a continent, and the size of each individual nation in Africa as well. It’s a really shit map projection.

Wacko > Stapleface 01/22/2016 at 12:12

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Don’t need a class for that, just go to Jezebel.....

Shane MacGowan's Teeth > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:14

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I feel your pain. Back in school I took “History of American Slavery”. Blonde haired, blue eyed me. One of our 3 grades for the course was a paper about how we, personally, triumphed over racism. Blonde haired, blue eyed me.

That being said, there are multiple continent models, depending where she was taught it’s possible she was taught that. When I was in school, there was no “Southern Ocean” for example. She’s also not alone with the Mercator projection issue, that is a disturbingly popular theory. Not sure why it came up in Women’s Lit though.

Wacko > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/22/2016 at 12:14

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ha, that’s what i was thinking too.

vicali > Ash78, voting early and often 01/22/2016 at 12:14

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All those Greenland jerks pulling rank..

Albers for life.

Anon > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/22/2016 at 12:14

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No, it’s required for my degree!

Svend > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:16

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Tell her your an albino gay hermaphrodite born to African and Asian parents and to shut the hell up.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:17

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Is her last name Holmstrom? Because she sounds exactly like my required “Social Issues” class I took in college.

Be patient young grasshopper, I won my battle with her. Even at one point getting the class dismissed 10 minutes into the hour because I destroyed her topic in one argument.

She gave me a B+, it was the lowest grade I received in college. She went in front of the department chair 3 times that semester thanks to me. It was a fair trade.

Anon > spanfucker retire bitch 01/22/2016 at 12:17

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I don’t doubt it, it is a bad projection, for christ sake it makes indonesia look very small but it’s actually about the with of the US!

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:22

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I called out a lit prof out once before. She was terrible. Many an argument.

Also got a lower grade because she wasn’t clear on a what “piston” was in an internal combustion engine. It was a Science and Technology writing/literature class. I had already spelled out in the paper (it was 10 pages I had plenty of space for the basics) the basics of an internal combustion engine.

Still got a B in the class.

pImpOfThePerverse > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:22

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sounds like an easy a to me.

Anon > Shane MacGowan's Teeth 01/22/2016 at 12:25

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I’ve never heard of the southern ocean. Also that sounds hilarious! Ironically enough, somewhat against my will, I’ve become an expert in southern literture dealing with slavery. This is because my favorite professor at my old college did his thesis on southern literture dealing with the topic of slavery. So even in a seemingly unrelated class he would sneek a Charles Chesnutt novel in if at all possible.

Leadbull > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:25

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Ok, so displaying the round earth as a flat map has always been problematic, and every map distorts some aspect of reality.

The Mercator projection is an equidistant projection, meaning that distance is preserved at the expense of area, which is distorted. This makes it great for navigation, which is what it was originally intended for when it was created in the 1500s. In fact, most GPSs and web based mapping apps use what’s called a web Mercator.

However, it obviously distorts area (the distortion increases with distance from the equator). Somehow this became the standard reference map of the world, at least in America. Nowadays, there’s been a push to take it out of textbooks and classrooms and use a compromise projection, like the Robinson projection, instead. World maps with compromise projections are the ones that look like ovals.

As for your tracher’s clnspiracy, I don’t really think that’s true, but maps are used all the time to lie and manipulate. For example, US propaganda used the Mercator projection to make the Soviet Union appear more intimidating during the Cold War.

Source for all of this: I’m going to have an undergrad geography degree in like 5 months.

Stapleface > gin-san - shitpost specialist 01/22/2016 at 12:26

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Bonus of him announcing himself being gay (even when not), he'll probably be instantly friends with half the girls in the class. Every girl wants a gay guy as a friend.

Leadbull > Ash78, voting early and often 01/22/2016 at 12:30

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The Greenland political machine is out of control.

Anon > Leadbull 01/22/2016 at 12:33

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I didn’t know you were a geographer! Thanks for your input it was a nice read.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:40

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Also, if I wanted an accurate projection of the world, I’d get a globe. Information is out there for anyone that seeks it, but the Mercator seems like it's used more out of convenience than anything else.

Leadbull > Anon 01/22/2016 at 12:44

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No problem. It was a bit longer than I intended, haha.

Decay buys too many beaters > Anon 01/22/2016 at 13:07

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This makes me very thankful for my engineering education, I had no required lit/history/bs classes. All of my 30 required “humanities” credit hours were spent in psychology and philosophy courses.

The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!) > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 01/22/2016 at 13:12

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Even at one point getting the class dismissed 10 minutes into the hour because I destroyed her topic in one argument.

That sounds like a hilarious story in the making. Go on.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!) 01/22/2016 at 13:49

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She taught using headlines and viral emails, so her material was notoriously thin.

One class we came in after reading our coursework compilation of verses from Deuteronomy in an argument counter to Christianity and homosexuality. It was essentially stolen from The West Wing, one of my all-time favorite shows, so I knew the argument. Basically, you have the selling your daughter into slavery and all sorts of other strange laws and rules for early Jewish society and they all lead to the question of “why aren’t these followed, but the anti-homosexual argument is kept?”

First, I am Christian, was a leader in the Christian Fellowship group on campus, and am currently a deacon at my church. So I like to think I have a decent understanding of my faith. Second, i hate any religion being called out for ambiguities by people who are not nearly as well versed in it, using that religion against itself. Like using portions of the Qur’an against Muslims as a Christian. It just sets you up poorly because it’s not familiar.

So that’s the basis of it.

She starts class by writing on the board, “Christian Inconsistencies” to which I say, “It’s from Deuteronomy, a portion of the Torah, we should include Orthodox Jews in this too.”

So she amends the chalkboard to “Jewish and Christian Inconsistencies.”

So then I ask her is she understands Mosaic Law, the shortcomings of man, and the sacrifice of Christ, culminating in a discussion on the book of Galatians and how Christians believe we are dead to the law, but raised with Christ. It’s obviously much more in-depth, but you get the gist.

I did this all while limiting my pausing or breathing because I did not need her to cut me off before I had my chance.

So I convince her that these passages in Deuteronomy should not apply to Christians and that she should erase the Christians from the board.

After she does, I ask. “So is the rest of this class going to be calling out the Jews for their myriad failures?” (Completely tongue-in-cheek)

It dawns on her what is on the blackboard and immediately tells the class, “Everyone but [PBJoe] is free to leave.”

It wasn’t a fun discussion that followed, but it was effectively me getting brow-beaten for her not knowing her own material. There were future instances where we had similar discussions, mostly on tests, those all went to her boss.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Leadbull 01/22/2016 at 14:26

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Mercator is not equidistant. It preserves shape and angles, but as with any map projection which distorts area, it also distorts distance.

You are absolutely correct about maps being used to misrepresent information. When I was teaching, one of the required books was How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier.

Leadbull > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/22/2016 at 14:36

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Yeah, you’re right. I think it’s actually conformal? But yes, it preserves angles and lines of direction so that’s what I was thinking about.

And that book was required reading in one of my classes, so I'd say it's still pretty relevant, haha. Where’d you teach by the way?

TheRealBicycleBuck > Leadbull 01/22/2016 at 14:41

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In order to keep from doxxing myself, I’ll just say that I taught at two SEC schools before heading into the private sector.