It's going to be a long semester.
So, my Intro to Women's Studies (which is being taken because it's a prereq for everything else in the department) class is going to, for sure, be the stereotypical class. Why?

Today, a male student compared the wage gender gap to paying short people less. Short people. (and IIRC, that's also illegal!) He also used "gay" for "stupid" twice while sitting next to me, so I am going to call safe space language rules if he does it repeatedly, especially in front of the class.

I believe there was some attempt made by the GTA to discuss the insanely high part of our national budget that goes to funding the military (46% of income tax), but that was drowned out by, "Of course that's worth it. You're enjoying your freedoms now, aren't you?" and comparisons to how much better we have it than Africa. Why, we have it so much better than the people we historically fucked over because we had the bigger stick and knew better because of our old white man book learnins. Shock!

Man, if part of being an American is living with guilt a Catholic would choke on that I'm not drinking patriotism wine every time I pee, I'm developing constipation and moving to Canada.