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"Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students "for being homosexual or transgender." They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for "cross-dressing," by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts."

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[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How the fuck do these people think they are going to know an absence is for an abortion? Do they really think their female students are going to volunteer that information in fucking Texas of all places?

It’s pretty damned easy to say “I need time off for a medical procedure” and nothing else, because they aren’t allowed to ask what sort of medical care you are getting. They can ask for a doctors note I suppose but that’s pretty easy to get, and also doesn’t have reasons on it. Or they can say they have a wedding or funeral to attend or whatever.

Or do they think because it’s a woman it’s safe to just assume, as many medical professionals do, that everything medical is related to reproductive systems?

This whole thing is just really gross for no reason other than to be gross. They are just mad they aren’t sleeping with these women.

Although in fairness, I don’t think students should be held to attendance standards in college anyway, it’s a lazy grading metric for failure schools that admit shit students. As adults, students may have other things going on that they need to handle, and if they fail to do the work as a result that’s their problem. I only had a handful of classes that gave a shit about attendance, and I dropped the ones I could because I’m not a child and that’s stupid. (Discussion based courses maybe, but even then, it should be based on participation not attendance)

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

If you are female and have to take time off for a medical procedure, they'll just assume it's an abortion and flunk you. After all, why are you in school anyway? You don't need an education to clean house and have babies.

[-] Anise 1 points 5 months ago

Agree. When I was in University professors took the stance that we are paying for this so if we want to skip what we are paying for, that's our problem. We were adults and responsible for our own time management.

Most professors were researchers first and educators second so they didn't really want to be there either...

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