Just like it was an issue that my friend was asked by her supervising professor yesterday whether she’s ever considered that there might be something seriously wrong with her “because most girls have really neat round writing and yours isn’t”.
I must confess, I am somewhat dismayed that an individual who would say something that inane and obtuse is a professor.
I only wish academia were immune to this sort of nonsense. I actually feel as though I’ve noticed an increase in my experience of it since coming to university.
With the isolated environment, there is a certain tendency for academics to… fossilize. If the professor in question was an older man, likely he was a product of his time who changed little since then.
For all the “liberal” reputation the academic world has, in many ways it is remarkably backward-looking, except possibly in cutting-edge science.
I must confess, I am somewhat dismayed that an individual who would say something that inane and obtuse is a professor.
I only wish academia were immune to this sort of nonsense. I actually feel as though I’ve noticed an increase in my experience of it since coming to university.
With the isolated environment, there is a certain tendency for academics to… fossilize. If the professor in question was an older man, likely he was a product of his time who changed little since then.
For all the “liberal” reputation the academic world has, in many ways it is remarkably backward-looking, except possibly in cutting-edge science.