“I know what my name rhymes with,” she said after writing it on the chalkboard, “and I don’t want to hear anybody calling me that here or behind my back.” Her name rhymed with “hard on,” I later realized, and was shocked not only that she had to preemptively address this, but that she had probably been called “Ms. Hard On” by students in the past. Female teachers deal with sexist remarks just as often as women in other professions — and it’s not just isolated to the older grades, either. I spoke with 11 teachers who revealed some of the sexist things their own students, and some of their colleagues, have said to them: “A professor once told me that my students will definitely listen to me if I still looked the same when I was certified. I asked what he meant and he just looked me up and down. By far one of the most uncomfortable experiences I ever had with a professor.” “Thankfully, the following week she was replaced by a male teacher who really stepped up the discipline in the classroom and once the same behaviors were repeated the following week, he actually acted and prevented it from happening again. “I was fine, but it was a pretty shocking thing to experience. I had never thought of 12 year olds boys as being potential predators, but if they have the confidence to try and grope a student teacher twice their age, it is scary to think about what they might try to do to a student their own age.” “I also once received a ‘sexy’ top as a gift from a five-year-old because she was upset that she had never seen me wear anything sexy. Another time I was told that I couldn’t be Marge Simpson for Halloween because she isn’t sexy.” “He just wanted to teach AP English and felt men should have higher levels of teaching.” “Another former student of mine recently messaged me about something writing-related and out of nowhere said, ‘oh and by the way, did you know that almost every single one of your male students want to bone you?’” she wrote in a separate essay. “This is a student who (before this) I would have considered enlightened, a male feminist. When I asked what would possess him to say this, he said he thought it was a compliment. That I would want to know in addition to being intelligent that I am desirable. I know that as long as women are valued as objects more than they are as people, more as bodies than they are as minds, this will be considered a compliment…”
title: “Teachers Reveal The Most Sexist Things Their Students Have Said” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-09” author: “Virginia Bergstrom”
“I know what my name rhymes with,” she said after writing it on the chalkboard, “and I don’t want to hear anybody calling me that here or behind my back.” Her name rhymed with “hard on,” I later realized, and was shocked not only that she had to preemptively address this, but that she had probably been called “Ms. Hard On” by students in the past. Female teachers deal with sexist remarks just as often as women in other professions — and it’s not just isolated to the older grades, either. I spoke with 11 teachers who revealed some of the sexist things their own students, and some of their colleagues, have said to them: “A professor once told me that my students will definitely listen to me if I still looked the same when I was certified. I asked what he meant and he just looked me up and down. By far one of the most uncomfortable experiences I ever had with a professor.” “Thankfully, the following week she was replaced by a male teacher who really stepped up the discipline in the classroom and once the same behaviors were repeated the following week, he actually acted and prevented it from happening again. “I was fine, but it was a pretty shocking thing to experience. I had never thought of 12 year olds boys as being potential predators, but if they have the confidence to try and grope a student teacher twice their age, it is scary to think about what they might try to do to a student their own age.” “I also once received a ‘sexy’ top as a gift from a five-year-old because she was upset that she had never seen me wear anything sexy. Another time I was told that I couldn’t be Marge Simpson for Halloween because she isn’t sexy.” “He just wanted to teach AP English and felt men should have higher levels of teaching.” “Another former student of mine recently messaged me about something writing-related and out of nowhere said, ‘oh and by the way, did you know that almost every single one of your male students want to bone you?’” she wrote in a separate essay. “This is a student who (before this) I would have considered enlightened, a male feminist. When I asked what would possess him to say this, he said he thought it was a compliment. That I would want to know in addition to being intelligent that I am desirable. I know that as long as women are valued as objects more than they are as people, more as bodies than they are as minds, this will be considered a compliment…”
title: “Teachers Reveal The Most Sexist Things Their Students Have Said” ShowToc: true date: “2024-10-19” author: “Leslie Corbett”
“I know what my name rhymes with,” she said after writing it on the chalkboard, “and I don’t want to hear anybody calling me that here or behind my back.” Her name rhymed with “hard on,” I later realized, and was shocked not only that she had to preemptively address this, but that she had probably been called “Ms. Hard On” by students in the past. Female teachers deal with sexist remarks just as often as women in other professions — and it’s not just isolated to the older grades, either. I spoke with 11 teachers who revealed some of the sexist things their own students, and some of their colleagues, have said to them: “A professor once told me that my students will definitely listen to me if I still looked the same when I was certified. I asked what he meant and he just looked me up and down. By far one of the most uncomfortable experiences I ever had with a professor.” “Thankfully, the following week she was replaced by a male teacher who really stepped up the discipline in the classroom and once the same behaviors were repeated the following week, he actually acted and prevented it from happening again. “I was fine, but it was a pretty shocking thing to experience. I had never thought of 12 year olds boys as being potential predators, but if they have the confidence to try and grope a student teacher twice their age, it is scary to think about what they might try to do to a student their own age.” “I also once received a ‘sexy’ top as a gift from a five-year-old because she was upset that she had never seen me wear anything sexy. Another time I was told that I couldn’t be Marge Simpson for Halloween because she isn’t sexy.” “He just wanted to teach AP English and felt men should have higher levels of teaching.” “Another former student of mine recently messaged me about something writing-related and out of nowhere said, ‘oh and by the way, did you know that almost every single one of your male students want to bone you?’” she wrote in a separate essay. “This is a student who (before this) I would have considered enlightened, a male feminist. When I asked what would possess him to say this, he said he thought it was a compliment. That I would want to know in addition to being intelligent that I am desirable. I know that as long as women are valued as objects more than they are as people, more as bodies than they are as minds, this will be considered a compliment…”
