When I was at TWU (pursing art) I had a male teacher who was part time because he was the SAHP. (Stay at home parent) See, when he and his wife got their degrees and careers, they agreed that when the kids came along, whoever was making the most money would be the breadwinner, and the other would stay home with the kids. When the first came along, he was still just a college teacher. She was an assistant to an assistant department head. So making way more.
When he was our teacher, she was the assistant department head, and was probably going to be the department head one day.
I can't tell you how many folks seem to think it odd, and I would get pretty defensive about it. No one in our classes thought it odd. In fact, I knew a few students who were engaged, planned to get married after their degrees, and had the same arrangement with their fiancés. Some of these couples, I remember thinking that the woman would probably end up still working, while the guy stayed home.
And that truck. Nice truck.
I'll admit that I'm impressed that you made it in the engineering field. (Clipping because I read your reply above.)
I would have replied, "So you must be good at math."
I have trouble with numbers, I can't see them in my head (love my cell phone calculator) and when I try to do long division, one of the numbers will always run and hide from me. So I forget it, and then end up with wrong answers.
Please tell me none of that sexism came from women. Though sometimes I find that women can be worse misogynists then men. (Debi Pearl and Mary Pride, for example.)
PS, I totally understand about the sensory overload thing. Or that's what I call it when I have it. It's like I can't stand Fiesta Food Mart when it's really busy. Or Target. The noise in the place is a dull roar that gets on my nerves. It's why I'm glad that my dad finally started using closed captions on the TV. He can't hear, so he would turn up the volume to a level that would drive me out of the house.
PPS I also do art, and I find that at an art gallery, or while reading an art book, I'll start to feel this 'sensory overload' so I either have to put the book down, or if in a gallery, find a spot to sit in with my eyes closed.
It's really annoying that at the DMA, they took a lot of the benches out, and you are not allowed to bring in folding stools. I have to go find a corner and sit on the floor. (At least the staff never bothers me when I do this. Perhaps they're used to folks doing the same?)
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Date: 2014-06-08 07:11 am (UTC)When he was our teacher, she was the assistant department head, and was probably going to be the department head one day.
I can't tell you how many folks seem to think it odd, and I would get pretty defensive about it. No one in our classes thought it odd. In fact, I knew a few students who were engaged, planned to get married after their degrees, and had the same arrangement with their fiancés. Some of these couples, I remember thinking that the woman would probably end up still working, while the guy stayed home.
And that truck. Nice truck.
I'll admit that I'm impressed that you made it in the engineering field. (Clipping because I read your reply above.)
I would have replied, "So you must be good at math."
I have trouble with numbers, I can't see them in my head (love my cell phone calculator) and when I try to do long division, one of the numbers will always run and hide from me. So I forget it, and then end up with wrong answers.
Please tell me none of that sexism came from women. Though sometimes I find that women can be worse misogynists then men. (Debi Pearl and Mary Pride, for example.)
PS, I totally understand about the sensory overload thing. Or that's what I call it when I have it. It's like I can't stand Fiesta Food Mart when it's really busy. Or Target. The noise in the place is a dull roar that gets on my nerves. It's why I'm glad that my dad finally started using closed captions on the TV. He can't hear, so he would turn up the volume to a level that would drive me out of the house.
PPS I also do art, and I find that at an art gallery, or while reading an art book, I'll start to feel this 'sensory overload' so I either have to put the book down, or if in a gallery, find a spot to sit in with my eyes closed.
It's really annoying that at the DMA, they took a lot of the benches out, and you are not allowed to bring in folding stools. I have to go find a corner and sit on the floor. (At least the staff never bothers me when I do this. Perhaps they're used to folks doing the same?)