Nope, not that all deans do such things, but I don't doubt I could live with it just fine.
>do you have you chair telling a student who asks, "oh, you want kelley, she's
>in the TA bay. just look for the beautiful woman in a blue skirts and
>sweater."
I'm 'the unmade bed in 1C119'.
>do you have students writing on your eval, "cool teacher. she
>dresses nice too." or "cool dress" or "nice legs".
Did have the like about fifteen years back, actually. Even got nice write-ups on the toilet walls, I'm told. But, alas, I have the face and body I deserve now ...
>do you get assigned to
>teach courses on the family, even though that's not your area of expertise
>and even though there are men who have actually taught it before, but
>because you're a women you'd just be right for it?
Shit, that happens to everyone here. Junior academics (and I fear I shall ever be one) get typecast according to all kinds of untenable criteria. I'm sure I ended up teaching statistics once because I was the only boy in a staffroom full of beskirted postmodernists on the day. Which would have been fine had I liked statistics, or even been very good at 'em. And I invariably get a niche in any unit with a bearded 19th century dwg involved, some of whom I know buggerall about at the time. Don't mind that so much, though - teaching is the best learning, eh?
>does your dept chair tell you stories about his sex life, you and the dept
>>secretaries, because we're those kind of girls, unlike his middle class
>>colleagues?
Nope. But I do get treated differently than most of my besuited colleagues, and that treatment does, to my mind, reflect stereotyping more than it does me. Sometimes it annoys, I admit.
>do you have
>students who walk up to you on the quad and start walking alongside you to
>talk about their grade and, all of a sudden, find that they're draping
>their arm around your shoulders.
Blokes'll give me a friendly slap occasionally, and it would be as welcome from the girls, but Oz sadly equates tactile with sexual if it's intersexual, and it seems even a platonic slap of the old bastard's shoulders is culturally proscribed. Can't think of any female staff getting touched up either, mind. I cop plenty of lip, though. Oz is an awful lot less respectful of authority and learning than most other places, so comparisons are difficult.
>so you have students who report you to
>your dean because you're teaching about sexuality and you dare to use the
>word "vagina" and "penis" in a matter of fact way, without blushing?
Where appropriate, I do fling those words about with abandon and impunity. And so may we all. Our cultural proscriptions don't run in that direction, it seems. We do our prudery differently here.
>these are all things that STILL fucking happen.
Except for that last, in which instance it's probably no easier for boy-teachers, I can't see the horror of any of it, myself, Kel.
Cheers, Rob.