Tandem assignment: This is what happens...

[1monster]

BTW, I've done this type of assignment in class with middle schoolers and this story is just about exactly correct...

[westerebus]

1. kick

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Love it!

Hilarious.

[pengillian101]

3. Ha!

Good one.

[LeftofObama]

4. ROFLMAO!

That was hilarious!

[denbot]

5. This will likely be the funniest thing I'll read all day

K&R

[blaze]

6. I really did LOL!!

Thanks!

[rrneck]

7. And this concludes another episode of the DU gender wars.

We'll be back next month as soon as somebody posts a vaginal knitting, male ogling, Hyperbole Rocket fueled with high octane ego and bullshit.

[1monster]

8. Ths was not meant to be an entry into the gender wars. I thought it was funny because it

hits so close to home. Last year, I gave a tandem assignment to sixth and seventh graders with four different prompts for five different groups in each class. (They could choose their promts.)

One of the prompts was about baking gingerbread cookies when one jumps off the cookie tray ... On that prompt, the girls would write about this cute little gingerbread cookie dancing around the kitchen having a blast. Then the boys would add their paragraph writing about how the gingerbread cookie used the opportunity of the girl's enchantment to create mayhem usually involving some blood spatter.

Is it nature or nurture or a little bit of both? There are gender differences and it is not gender war or discrimination to observe and acknowledge those differences. It's only when those differences are used as weapons in suggesting that one is superior to the other or to keep one down that the problems begin.

[rrneck]

9. That's what I got out of it.

Your post ended the debate. Instead of a thread win, it was a flame war win.

This whole silly fight isn't about feminism or women or anything of the sort. It's an ideological scrum with true believing proselytizers on one side and logicians on the other. The true believers feed on their own sanctimony, the logicians try to solve the problem with no data, and a few trolls feed less than helpful catch phrases that spread like malignant memes.

While real people in the real world go about their business tending to more important issues.

I'm totally stealing that graphic if you don't mind.

[tblue37]

10. I teach college English--both composition and literature courses.

I also tutor almost any subject in the humanities and some in science (especially social sciences) at all levels--from grade school to post doc. I frequently edit articles professors write for professional journals, as well as some of their books.

In other wordes, I know something about the way students (including grad students) write, and something about how people in academia at all levels write. Sure, some do fine without editing, but you would be surprised at how awkward and ungrammatical the writing of highly educated people, including college professors, typically is. At the student level it is usually even worse.

If this story was actually written by two students in the way the article claims, then I will swallow my red pen sideways and wash it down with a cup of pencil shavings.

On the other hand, it is funny as hell, so thanks for posting it!