it has done so much damage

it must end.

/checks thesaurus

Declarations of war are usually frowned upon in polite companies.

/runs

well I frown upon people treating "society" like their big brother who won't stay on his side of the couch

from the paper I'm reading right now: "In the current world we live in, stereotypes play a role in how a person is identified" KILL IT WITH FIRE

dang society getting all up on the couch

Society withered my crops

society is stealing my chips

Society keeps poking me but I told society to stop poking me MOOOOOOOOOM

'in the current world we live in' made me cringe a little

yeah these kids had a pandemic through their junior and senior high school years and learned 0 things

I'm basically trying to drag sophomores through college-level composition this year and it is rough going

well, you know, we do live in a society

bottom text

lmao

Society, stay on your side of the room

mom tried to put me in a get along shirt with Society and I'm still traumatized

klfdjfldsa

goddamn it society

Society and The Media threw my books in the garbage

bumping this to add "Kamala Khan, a Muslim Pakistani-American teenager from New Jersey, is referred to as Ms. Marvel. Ms. Marvel is a 16-year-antique lady juggling excessive school, own circle of relatives, and her new superpowers. "

I don't know what that was supposed to be, but I do know autocorrect was involved

MS MARVEL IS AN ANTIQUE LADY

looool sounds like they were finding and replacing with the thesaurus

Sixteen year old antique lady

16-year-old... what's another word for old? Antique!

also in this essay, "In today’s society Majority of Americans experience that faith is dropping its impact on human beings. "

there is such a canyon between how this person speaks and how they write. Incredibly articulate in person, barely literate on paper

now i'm really curious if someone has done an actual study on popular phrases used in essay writing

bc i bet it changes over time

oh, it absolutely does. there are standardized ways of teaching concepts, and the standards change over time

exactly

like over the last few years, it's become really common to introduce citation in high school by giving people a general introductory phrase. So like four years ago, all of a sudden all my C-tier students start every essay with "In [title] by [author's name], it states [quote]"

which chaps my ass because it's fucking redundant

just say "[author] states [quote]"

but they learned it one way, and goddamn it they are going to do it exactly that way every time

the hardest part for me in writing essays was that I had a HS teacher who said "pretend I don't know anything about the topic and explain it to me"

college essays don't quite work that way

I can see how that's useful, but I can also see how that leads to someone being like "Let me explain to you how the Big Bang worked and eventually we'll start talking about the problem of race in 1960s America"

I'm normally against the idea of curves but this semester most of my students are so incoherent that if I didn't grade on a curve then no one would pass

sad but true

I feel bad for this group because there's also a lot of shame attached to their writing? Like we had great class conversations but then nobody submitted written work

and I kept having to be like "guys, you need to write in your writing class wtf"

I think they just didn't want me to see it and think less of them or something

I definitely had to send more than one email today that was like "I don't want to submit a failing grade for you so I'm going to enter an Incomplete. Now please give me a realistic date when I can expect your missing work "

which is not a luxury I extend to the classes that aren't my favorite

(I'm grading Bad Class after this and I cannot wait to start dishing out Fs over there)

Fs for FUN

I hope I can fail them this time! last semester, this uni wouldn't let me enter failing grades for comp1 and I had to just forcibly withdraw people who didn't pass

so I can wreck their financial aid but not their GPA

not as fun when I don't like someone

well that sounds completely unsatisfying

taking away one of the things that gets me through the rough spots!

I cling to the knowledge I get the last laugh after they've been awful bullies to me for sixteen weeks

withdrawing them is barely a chuckle

and is more likely to end in a series of dramatic appeals

GET HER JADE

i, too, wish to be an antique lady

"Kamala’s father is being hard, stubborn, and emotional volatile to Kamala because he is blinded by his male Muslim tradition as a father to be dangerous and emotionally volatile to get his daughter kamala to obey and hold her back to protect her from going outside at night were anything could happen to Kamala as a sixteen-year-

old Muslim girl trying to go to a part where there are other boys and alcohol present."

Ms Marvel papers always bring out the racism

holy shit

oh this is from my incel

misunderstanding a feminist source

Oh, that student.

I'm familiar with the OG article -- it's critiquing the way Kamala's father is portrayed in the art as falling into the stereotype of the angry brown man

but my incel, missing the point, thinks it's talking about how men are angry and dangerous

" Kamala at first wanted to follow people like Zoe and go to the Waterfront to fit, but her
father denies her and follows his male Muslim tradition as a father demands for Kamala to go
back to her room. Kamala rejects her ethnicity and disobeys her father to go to the waterfront to
fit in and try to be “normal” for once. "

that's not

did. did he not read the WHOLE book

did he try to write a research paper on issue one

OH WELL incel gets a C for the course at least he passes legitimately and doesn't put me through the crisis of trying to fudge anything

is he trying to give answers he thinks a feminist would accept? That is multiple levels of yeah