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bywandandsword · 7 months

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As a TA, I've started giving some of the lectures in the cultural anthropology class. I'm naturally a pretty sweary person, and some swears must have slipped in during the last lecture without my noticing because a student emailed my boss and complained about me

Bro. That's fucking hilarious. Like, are you serious? Do they know where they are? Do they think the standards in high school apply here? If my saying 'fuck' is going to make you clutch your pearls so, keep a hold on them for the rest of your college career, cause babes, academics are fucking weirdos (affectionate, myself included) and most of us are not paid enough to pretend to adhere to arbitrary standards of puritanical professionalism outside of fancy conferences, especially, in a social sciences department. Get real

#Sword speaks #the head of my last department used to swear a red mile in class when the projector inevitably acted up #the head of my last committee used to respond to my emails with just emojis #another member of my committee is a man I've never seen not wearing flip flops #'professionalism' in academia died when they cut our funding #also you're really going to tell someone ten years older than you to watch your language? the nerve

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