actually, I think we're WINNING.

[lotesse]

So I was sure when I got a snotty email in my inbox, sent from one of my professors to the entire class, banging on about the use of "they" as a generic pronoun rather than "he," and calling the entire thing a grammatical error - the best part was when he lamented that soon the war would be "lost," and we wouldn't be able to enforce patriarchy on our own students - that if I was not the main target I was at least included. I'm the most vocal feminist in the class, certainly. And so I was sure that I'd be marked down, and I was sort of bracing myself to write letters and possibly contest the grade if that bit of sexist pedantry was my only sin - and then I opened my grades, and the bastard gave me an A. He never gives As! Sir, I'm confused.

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[senmut]

Had a prof that was going to give me an 'I' for a semester due to my failure to turn in a 50 point (out of the total 1000 possible that sem) assignment. It was about library research methods and using library resources. I passed, as ethically speaking, I WORKED THERE, and I was the darling of the library, and how could anyone expect me to not get a perfect score by wheedling coworkers? (I didn't.)

I told him point blank what I thought, why, took the assignment, dashed it off in an half hour, PERFECTLY because I know libraries inside and out (back then, not now. I miss the physical card catalog) and turned it in.

I was tracking for a c+/B- in his class anyway. Ideological differences had set my back up against this guy.

50 points should not have done more than maybe get me a solid B.

I walked out of that sem with an A-, for sticking to my guns, explaining myself rationally and coolly, and having a prof who decided guts mattered as much as ethics.