> Let me tell you a tragic but true story. Way back in my first year at university, we studied an old play in which a very minor character, in a very minor plot point, committed suicide by hanging herself. I kid you not, we spent about six months being forced to listen to our teacher's views on how this was actually a devastating subtle comment on patriarchal oppression, which as far as I know was not even a known concept at the time the play was written.
> Apparently this character really hung herself because she felt denied the expression of her femininity, and therefore expressed her alienation from her own body by *separating herself from the earth*, ie hanging, because woman is the earth mother.
> We also had to put up with this particular lecturer telling all the guys in the class that they were really rapists, and all the girls in the class that they were really gay. We all complained and I now believe that this particular lecturer has *moved on* to another career elsewhere.
> One thing, though, it was a nice easy class to get an A+ in. Just swallow your pride, memorise and copy out the catch phrases ...

Ouch. I had a teacher who was just out of two decades in the army. Used to be an Elvis impersonator. Never taught the subject he was hired to teach. Never taught High School, either. Hired two days before school started. Never developed a plan that went more than the better part of a week into the future. I got over a hundred percent in that class and I did it for the sole purpose of ticking him off.

> Brunnen-"I much prefer science fiction"G

Yeh, some of the books I read over the summer I figure to be about the intellectual equivalent of cable. Pure entertainment SF/F. Escapism. Yeaaaah.