Reply #67: Fascinating perspective! [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Back when I was a college professor, I used to hear some amazingly insulting things from my male colleagues.

Some of us were having lunch in the student center coffee shop, which was right across the hall from the mail room, when one of the young women students got some very good news in a letter--she had been admitted to medical school. She accosted passing friends and shared her good news, and the group of them began crying out with delight and jumping up and down hugging one another.

One of my male colleagues looked up from his sandwich and said, "Those high-pitched voices get on my nerves."

The other men at the table agreed.

Yeah, guys, people with high-pitched voices get into medical school. Welcome to (then) the 1990s.

I felt like saying something about how irritating it is when fraternity guys get drunk and start roaring at one another, in one case, even coming to my apartment complex, where they apparently thought a friend lived (he didn't), and roaring out in the parking lot at 3AM.

But I was not in the mood to be sarcastic that day.