Fun.

Not going to lie, feeling pretty down right now.

I just returned home from the lecture for the course that I TA. It's a huge lecture hall, and it's late at night. Understandably, the lecturer for this course tries to grab the wombat attention by being a wee bit risque---not terribly so most of the time.

But sometimes, what he says just makes me really uncomfortable. Tonight was one of those nights.

He asked the wombats if there were any chem engineers in this course. One girl raised her hand. After asking her if she'd heard of a concept, he proceeded onwards in his lecture, occasionally asking her if she'd heard of other concepts. After the third concept, he asked her if she knew anything and if she was really going to be an engineer (none of these concepts were covered until today). Then he directly launched into a story about how home moms used to be referred to as "domestic engineers."

WTF.

First of all, you singled out this student and then implied that the sort of engineer she'd become was a "domestic engineer" because she doesn't know everything about engineering yet, which of course she should as a sophomore. Secondly, if you've already apologized to the whole class before due to your previous terribly inappropriate/sexually charged comment about a specific female student, why would you continue to push the envelope too far? Plus, he even stopped himself going, "I shouldn't say this." LISTEN TO YOUR DAMN SELF.

Maybe I'm the only one offended by the implication that this female student would have to be a housewife to be a type of engineer. But no matter his intentions---even though he clarified that he knew that statement was inappropriate---a student went home and probably is questioning her major choice right now due to his actions.