#the first guy was honestly so entertaining he kept saying ‘asian american specific islander’

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toward the end of the fall semester i had a class that was just a professor reading out wacky/hyperspecific/wrong/completely made up definitions for lgbt microidentities à la on here ten years ago. and today i had a class that was just people arguing loudly and impassionedly about food taxonomy à la people on the internet (feels like reddit but has happened in all these places i suppose) arguing about whether a hot dog is a sandwich. in the first case the professor was a self purported ally who maybe half remembered an infographic he saw and was rehashing his version with total confidence and definitely made like 25% of the room more homophobic. i cannot stress enough that this was the entire class period. in the second case the professor was trying to teach us abt semantic associations but unfortunately was not aware of the bizarre social niche these discussions have taken & was getting so annoyed at everyone carrying on. in both cases the experience of the class session was so absurd that i wish someone was there to see what i mean bc i can’t do it justice with prose