http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/18/sl-letter-of-the-day-schooling-your-instructor Comments On: SL Letter of the Day: Schooling Your Instructor by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
A Moron is King in the Land of Retards.

Do you know what behavior infects those clever wits with the VIRUS?

Evidently not.

Which puts you in a big crowd.

Have of them don't, either.
Posted by We're Rubber. You're Glue. Really Stupid Glue.]]> Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:18:59 -0800 The Stranger http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Savag… which is not about child pornography, but incest pornography, which is most likely made with legal-age performers. I think the distinction Dan drew in the column, between people who are turned on by incest as an erotic hypothetical and those who want to fuck their nonhypothetical relatives, was very smart and sensible. I can see, however, how an incest survivor might have failed to read it correctly on account of being emotionally triggered while reading it.
Posted by I have always been... east coaster]]> Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:09:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Canadian Nurse]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:10:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by vennominon]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:31:07 -0800 The Stranger
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Posted by snakes]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:43:58 -0800 The Stranger
I was surprised that some commenters gendered the professor female. In my mind the instructor was definitely male.
Posted by migrationist]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:09:31 -0800 The Stranger
hint: "Human Immunodeficiency VIRUS." Not "Human Immunodeficiency Buttsex."

Moron.
Posted by avast2006]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:12:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by avast2006]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:04:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pointy]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:31:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ken Mehlman]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:30:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Liam3851]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:12:38 -0800 The Stranger
I don't see any intimidation or abuse of power or failure to indicate it was personal opinion.

The prof. was wrong on the facts, and of course professors should be correct.

As to victim status, I hear you, there's a school that says professors should be to-the-facts-only and never mention anything about who they are, but frankly that's dated, today the pedagogy says engage, share, delineate your experience, encourage dialogue.

The prof. concluded by praising Savage's IGB project -- indicating the door was open for dialogue and the prof. was respecting the student's appreciation of Savage (and we now know the dialogue took place).

So again, the prof was an idiot and wrong, and maybe you don't like his/her pedagogy, but from what was given to us and Cantor, def. not abusing power.
Posted by delta35]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:13:29 -0800 The Stranger
some pedophiles don't harm children, either directly or by consuming child porn, and on the other hand, a large portion of the people who *do* harm children are *not* pedophiles in that they are also attracted to adults and just don't give a shit about consent, is all.
Posted by jemand]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:12:27 -0800 The Stranger
Opinion of Dan went down a notch too, for not questioning Cantor's suggestion to go to the dept. chair about being afraid even though there was no intimidation, no professional wrongdoing. There's a whole school of pedagogy in social justice that disclosing one's history is relevant and a good teaching technique.

Plus, many profs are not tenured. I once was not re-appointed after I said in lecture "in my opinion our society is really fucked up on this issue" [not giving homeless people enough support], and a Christian student complained about the f* word. They found someone else to teach next time... even though 95% of students said my class was the best they'd ever had. Now I have tenure and have been a dept. chair, and on the other side, it's all about reducing liability, even if a complaint is groundless, easier to hire another adjunct next time.

Methinks Cantor & Savage don't understand how colleges in USA work and/or were assholes on this point.
Posted by delta35]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:02:57 -0800 The Stranger If Cantor read the first email and not the second, I understand what he's thinking.

The professor used strong language making baseless accusations with no sourcing (both pro child porn & other "dangerous advice") and then used victim status to discourage debate. Within the context of the power a professor has over an undergrad, that's the real academic bullying, IMO.
Posted by Canadian Nurse]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:00:08 -0800 The Stranger
I think the professor was wrong. Dan, as usual, handled this well.

But Cantor encouraging the student to file a formal complaint to dept. chair and licensing board? Whoa! (since when are professors licensed? unless I guess the professor is a psychologist or a doctor)

Nowhere in what the student said, did the professor threaten the student's grade, neither explicitly nor implicitly, nor do anything unethical or incompetent.

It is perfectly OK for a teacher to share personal opinions when relevant to class content, provided they delineate it's personal opinion, and are open to a two-way dialogue with a student with the expectation that either prof. or student (or both) might change their minds on the basis of evidence -- which is exactly what happened.

Isn't this type of exchange what should be taking place in college? Especially in a social justice class?
Posted by delta35]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:12:48 -0800 The Stranger
The point is not what society's current mores are.

The point is Danny's Hypocrisy.

Danny asserts that HIS "innate" deviant (as it, deviates from the normal biological function) attraction is A-OK but pedophiles' innate deviant attraction can not be acted on.

Just like Marriage "Equality" means marriage for HIM but not for poly people.
Posted by HomoHypocrisy. Out and Proud.]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:44:00 -0800 The Stranger
that was awesome.......
Posted by whoops. don't forget to report us to the Department Chair...]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:31:30 -0800 The Stranger
Because Academic Freedom is only for HomoLiberals.

HomoLiberal college instructors (and public school teachers) are free to impose their enlightened ideology on students.

Because they are enlightened, of course.

But if a faculty member strays from the HomoLiberal Theology they must be reported to the prof's department chair and licensing board.

asshole.
Posted by Why are Liberals Coward Weasels that fear other opinions?]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:28:27 -0800 The Stranger
Is a consentual behavior that gives 20% of those who engage in it HIV (and uncounted innocent family members) really doing no harm to anyone?

Really?
Posted by you are sick.]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:19:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by vennominon]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:35:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by vennominon]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:25:13 -0800 The Stranger Even the distinction between consenting adults v unable to consent (responsibly) minors is an arbitrary line in the sand we've drawn. At 16, I was more than happy to be 'abused' by my much older queer buddy. Yet the law would have locked him up as a pedophile.
Bottom line is that society decides what is legal v illegal. And society does change its outlook on things with the times. Even the attitude re: pedophile priests has changed with the outing of the gays- in the day when these priests abused, it was simply too shameful to even think about clearly, much less discuss, among both priests and laity. Now that we talk about such things openly, it's changed the whole discussion, and what they've done has become abominable. There was a day when 'Don't want your son buggered, don't let him be an altar boy' was kind of the way it was.
Posted by OutInBumF]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:06:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tkc]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:10:09 -0800 The Stranger Posted by SeattleKim]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:02:11 -0800 The Stranger