The answer is obviously yes. I agree its far too obvious

Indeed. Electric toothbrushes are much more useful for females. Very sexist.

I mean, I could print "women belong in the kitchen" on a tooth brush. Easy.

People who get triggered by these easy questions instead of engaging their analytical brain are exactly the people who need educated. It's easy to ask why you are paying for it, and the reason will escape you until dismissal of unconsidered ideas is no longer your default mode.

While true, it sticks out like a sore thumb that many colleges are trying to push an agenda whenever they can. The critical thinking of students could be sharpened with any variety of questions, problems or dilemmas, yet those that imply or push a certain liberal ideology are much more frequently chosen for this purpose than culturally neutral problems.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Nov 9 2021 07:44pm

Colleges absolutely should not be prioritizing culturally neutral problems. It is not the responsibility of institutions to be neutral, nor is it a reasonable thing to advocate for. They should be objective, and seek to actively push boundaries of student's mental capabilities. A neutral college would teach the argumens that the Earth is flat. An objective college addresses the misunderstandings, and points out the evidence only points one way, and that Flath Earth has no merit as a result.

For a lot of students challenging initial perceptions is a huge hurdle to overcome. Positing seeming ridiculous things like "can a toothbrush be sexist" and following up with a discussion that highlights an answer that's obvious to us, but not obvious to a student with that initial reaction, is a legitimate teaching strategy.


To give you a STEM example, in my Gen Chem I course, the professor asked "So, learning what we just learned about IR, do you think there's any merit to the claims of global warming?" and a ~50 year old student in the back yelled "Depends if you're Al Gore or somebody with a brain". Note, this was right after our lecture on IR absorption, where CO2 was the highlighted case.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Nov 9 2021 08:31pm

one should also study in word gymnastics and confirmation bias to accommodate all kinds of nonsense oh wait... that's your major.

This post was edited by addone on Nov 9 2021 10:37pm

Aww man, yeah, you got me there. Yep. Mmmm. I've been wrecked.

Devils advocate is stonks

kek


that user didnt pay for its education so it doesn’t care about objective questions like “why am i paying thousands for this”. taxpayer has always and will always support that user (a true waste of lefty privilege)

This post was edited by excellence on Nov 10 2021 09:45am