So, my feminist 14 year old daughter wears a shirt to school with

[rateyes]

the words, "This is what a FEMINIST looks like" on the back. While in the cafeteria a male history teacher, who has a dry sense of humor says to her from behind her upon seeing it, "The problems in this country started with the passage of the 19th amendment."

My daughter wheels around and hushes the entire lunchroom by barking out: "Just because women are the ones with the brains to figure out what went wrong doesn't mean they're to blame for it."

The male teacher couldn't speak a word, and my daughter's female homeroom teacher smirked at the male teacher and giggled.

[BlueJazz]

1. I don't know your Daughter but I like your Daughter. She takes after you.

:) :)

[rateyes]

9. That's what I fear the most.

:scared:

[rateyes]

23. Well, thank you BlueJazz.

The feeling is mutual.

[proud patriot]

2. LOL, Right On

I bet you are proud

[ejpoeta]

3. i thought you were going to say she got in trouble for wearing it.

well, i am glad she didn't let that guy get away with that crap. and i am surprised she didn't end up getting in trouble.

[Lars39]

4. lol

:applause: Kudos to your daughter on her quick and deadly accurate response. I bet it's a loooonnng time, if ever, that he says that to any one else. :D

[rateyes]

8. My daughter said the whole lunchroom said a collective

"ooooohhhhhhhhhhh" and got really quiet, because that teacher is the LAST person that anyone in the school would talk back to. Surprised everybody.

[Lars39]

10. She made everbody think a bit. :^)

[rateyes]

21. Well, we do live in Middle-Georgia. And, there are a lot of

misogynists in this part of the country. She probably ticked off a few of her male classmates.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

28. One of my best friends is in Bainbridge, GA -

calls it "Third World Country."

Her male classmates already fear her. She'd best get used to that as she moves through her wonderful life.................

[rateyes]

35. She doesn't mind speaking truth to power.

I've seen her do that kind of stuff more than once. She wrote an essay for a contest the D.A.R. sponsored---anti-war essay, in middle-Ga. I thought to myself that the judges would probably just wince and move on. Damned if she didn't win the thing.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. Brilliant!

What a great young woman!

Good parenting is always evident. :)

[Hepburn]

6. K&R

Great kid! :applause:

[itsrobert]

7. No gender is better than the other

IE: Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingram, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Barbara Bush, etc, etc, etc.

Men don't have brains? Now, who is the sexist?

[rateyes]

11. Well, I'm her father, and I substitute at the school...

my daughter was just getting in a shot at her teacher, who thought he had gotten a shot in at her. It was all in good fun. We all know the truth of what you said.

[itsrobert]

13. It was a good rebuttal

to the teacher. Well played.

[omega minimo]

19. She didn't say "man don't have brains" -- If "no gender is better than the other"

according to the dominant males, women would not have been (and in some cultures still are) "chattel," property, without social or human rights.

GROW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[itsrobert]

29. Whatever

Have fun.

[omega minimo]

43. right.

enjoy your cocoon

[Greyhound]

24. Overall, I've known far more intelligent, reasonable women than men.

We (men) seem to frequently get caught up in "my dick's bigger than yours" to the exclusion of reason or objectives. It is true that it is cultural rather than biological, but it is prevalent none the less.

Also, the women you mentioned are all in the category of "men with vaginas".

[Control-Z]

44. Feeling threatened?

If what you say is true, then why does a 14 YO girl's opinion bother you so?

[itsrobert]

48. Yes

You figured it out. You win a cookie.

[GoneOffShore]

49. It always amazes me how some folks jump right in, feet firmly planted in mouths

And outrage at full throttle, BEFORE reading all of the responses to a post or a thread.

Nice to give people cookies even if they pounce on you. You're nicer than I am.

[inna]

64. +1 nt

[Orsino]

54. Bigotry isn't much prettier when practiced by an oppressed class.

The fourteen-year-old was out of line, though she didn't start it. The teacher, the adult in the situation, was even more in the wrong for deliberately provoking the girl.

[roody]

60. As a teacher, I would say that the teacher has no business in

that profession. He should move to a country that does not allow women to vote.

[rateyes]

73. They were teasing each other, and my daughter was not out of line.

Do we all have to be so PC that no one can take a freaking joke?

[Orsino]

75. She was insulting all the men in earshot.

I'm inclined to be forgiving of back-and-forth teasing. If you think the teacher was not insulting the teenager, that may let him off the hook.

What the young lady yelled was out of line.

[rateyes]

78. No, it wasn't.

You don't know her, nor the teacher, nor her classmates, and the good relationship she has with the people in her school.

Seems like all the other progressives posting in this thread can see the good-natured ribbing that was going on, as did the students and the teachers.

Your criticism is just a bunch of PC bullshit.

[Orsino]

82. The good-natured ribbing is easy to see...

...and as I said, I tend to forgive joking between close friends.

The entire lunchroom, though? That strains credibility.

[rateyes]

83. Whatever. Again, you don't know.

Bye.

[Orsino]

84. I believe I know nearly as many people in that lunchroom as you. n/t

[retread]

71. Nice try. Not even close.

[L. Coyote]

80. Men are MUCH BETTER than women

at starting wars, it seems!

[Greyhound]

12. LOL!

That's just freaking hilarious!
:kick: & R

[Canuckistanian]

14. My congratulations to you and your daughter

You've raised a fine, upstanding citizen.

Smug idiots like that teacher deserve an education and a smackdown.

:patriot:

[rateyes]

15. Well, to be fair, the teacher really doesn't believe that...

he was just trying to get a reaction from her. He just didn't know it would be so forceful. He may have been trying to see if, as a feminist, she knew what the 19th amendment was. :D

[Canuckistanian]

46. Well, good on her for knowing it

And good on you for teaching her that such things are important.

:hi:

[ensho]

55. yes, men do that - word stab a woman and then say they were just joking

nt

[demigoddess]

66. are you sure? right after W got selected there was a radio show(right wing)

that discussed taking the right to vote away from women. they seemed serious to me. Also I had a government teacher in my youth who said that having girls in class was almost as bad as having black students. I never could figure out if he meant it or if he was being a devil's advocate.

[rateyes]

79. Yes. I'm sure.

[Mike 03]

16. Nice. What a great thing it is to have that self confidence to fight back so effectively. She

must have learned it from somewhere, probably you.

That is something to be very proud of.

[blaze]

17. So this teacher with the dry sense of humor...

Was he just ribbing your daughter?

My first read of your post made it sound so... In which case, it sounds like your daughter is in a pretty damned good learning environment.

And, if so, kudos to both your daughter and the teacher.

[rateyes]

20. Yes, he was. He was standing behind her talking to her homeroom

teacher about placing her in AP math in her first high-school year, next year. Her homeroom teacher, I proudly say, told him she was the smartest kid in the school.

Yes, he's a good guy. I guess he was trying to see if she knew what the 19th amendment was.

And, it is a good school.

[blaze]

25. Oh good!!!

I love hearing good stories coming out of our schools!!

And congrats (I think :) ) to your daughter for getting placed in AP math as a freshman!!

Nice story, all the way around. :hi:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

26. It seems like he was just teasing,

but your kid did all right. Indeed, the smartest kid in school will not be trifled with, and I suspect it was all received well by the adults.

She knew what the 19th Amendment was. How cool is that?

It sounds to me like a really wonderful episode, and you've got a firecracker kid. Congratulations!

:toast:

[rateyes]

30. Thank you, Tangee.

:hi: I must give kudos to my wife. She is a professor and director of the Women and Gender Studies degree program at a university where we live. I married a very strong woman.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

38. Take your own bow .........

You fathered a very strong baby woman.

I've got two of them myself. They started walking through walls as soon as they got upright, and they've never stopped.

You're in for a grand ride.................

[rateyes]

41. She's my youngest daughter. I have three daughters.

No sons. My oldest just graduated college. My middle child starts her 3rd year of college in the fall. It's already been quite a ride.

[Leftist Agitator]

51. "She knew what the 19th Amendment was. How cool is that?"

:eyes:

Low expectations much? Every student should know all 27 Constitutional amendments as well as the year in which each was ratified.

[proteus_lives]

69. I work with a bunch of teenagers.

Trust me, it's surprising.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

76. Most people born in this country

do not know all 27 Constitutional amendments. You need to find a new hobby... Perhaps talking to people outside your cone of silence - start asking random people to name all 27 amendments.
Most people on this discussion board couldn't name them all.

[a la izquierda]

81. I'm a grad TA in the history dept at a gigantic university...

you'd be shocked to find out what students don't know about the US. Now I teach Latin America...
Trust me, I'm not surprised at much anymore. :(

[Posteritatis]

56. One of my favorite history teachers did similar stuff

He'd regularly rib one student or another on things, not necessarily connected to the subject at hand but that was usually the case, and was pretty good at figuring out which students couldn't deal with it and not doing so around them. He told us straight out that part of the point was to figure out if we knew what we were talking about, and part was to get people to think on their feet more quickly.

[Mike 03]

18. Kick and rec. NT

[MineralMan]

22. Props to your daughter!

[11 Bravo]

27. Please accept this in the spirit in which it is offered ...

your daughter has balls the size of grapefruits. Well done, young woman!

[rateyes]

33. Well, she was born in your state.

I miss Virginia.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

40. We're blue here now, you know .........

Got a Democratic Governor, two Democratic Senators, and Mr. Jefferson's Commonwealth went for Obama.

I can die happy now ..................

[rateyes]

42. I know. And, my Republican friends in VA hate it.

I lived for 5 years in Southwest Virginia, and for 9 years on the Chesapeake Bay on a peninsula between the Rappahannock and Piankatank rivers. Beautiful places in VA. And, a great commonwealth. I was there just before Doug Wilder became governor. Left a couple of years after that asshole, Gilmore, was elected.

[bigwillq]

31. Bravo!

Awesome! :bounce: :thumbsup:

[Triana]

32. HA! Give her a HUGE hug for that...

....she deserves it.

[KamaAina]

34. I want one too!

And (to the apparent surprise of at least three DUers :-) ) I am male.

:thumbsup:

[rateyes]

36. Her mother supplied her with the shirt. Her mom

is a professor at a university and sponsors a feminist group on campus. Several males in the group.

[The Doctor.]

37. It seems he was merely chiding her and didn't expect the sharp retort.

Either way, good on her. It was a nice shot!

[rateyes]

39. That's right. nt

[joshcryer]

oops dupe

[joshcryer]

45. That just put a big smile on my face, you rock as a parent. That teacher also sounds like a good guy

[Berry Cool]

47. Love your daughter and the homeroom teacher!! n/t

[Wednesdays]

50. K&R

:kick:

[votingupstart]

52. GOOD JOB!

you have educated a young person to speak up for their rights - bravo to you

[Echo In Light]

53. K&R

[truedelphi]

57. Oh mi gawd. You must be so very proud of this

Young woman!

[Critters2]

58. Holy crap! Blaming America's problems on the 19th Amendment!

I can die now. I've heard everything!

Congrats on raising a wonderful daughter!

[Retired AF Dem]

59. Your daughter sounds like a smart kid

what will she be saying 10 years from now when she is paying 50% income tax rates to pay off the national debt?

[graywarrior]

61. Wonder where she got that attitude.

You make me proud, rateyes.

[pleah]

62. K&R Smart girl!

I'm impressed! Congratulations on raising a very bright young lady. We need all we can get in this world.


:toast:

[ZombieHorde]

63. Bwahahahahaa!

[hayu_lol]

65. Sounds like your daughter is ready to...

replace Pelosi as Speaker immediately.

[Dramarama]

67. That's awesome.

[LSdemocrat]

68. Was the teacher joking? I had a teacher who'd joke about the same point.

He'd then make some crack about we got stuck with Harding because the backroom pols thought his apparent good looks appealed to the new women voters.

[Toucano]

70. I think DU is becoming inbred.

70 comments about this rather pedestrian story?

Mmmkay!

Not to insult the story, of course, which is rather cool.

Still. 70?

[lonestarnot]

72. Sheet! Too late to recommend!

[ismnotwasm]

74. lol

You made my day

[MrMickeysMom]

77. Out of the mouths of our children...

... who are children no more, eh? Good for her, and shame on that idiot of a teacher.

Oh, yes- Congratulations for rearing your daughter! :applause: