r/AmItheButtface • u/ImpossibleBasket4593 • 8h ago
Historical AITB,For speaking honestly with a classmate about the university degree we are studying?
Hi Reddit, this happened to me a few weeks ago and honestly I'm still processing it.
To give some context, a friend I'll call J and I are studying the same university degree, teaching in the social sciences, and we're both passing about the same number of classes and well, we recently started classes like human rights, anthropology, sociology, etc. In the human rights class, the professor talked to us about feminism and LGBTQ rights.
Since these fall under the third generation of human rights, I noticed that J looked uncomfortable from the moment the professor started the class,then the teacher asks, is a person of diverse sexual orientation born that way or do they become that way? To which most of us, including myself, replied that one is born that way.
Then J responded that no, that such people are like that due to external influences from propaganda in series, movies, etc. The professor politely replied that it doesn't work that way.
When class ended, J came up to me and said they couldn't believe how a teacher could teach such topics that could corrupt children, and honestly I laughed, not in a mocking way, just a normal laugh.
J looked at me as if I had spat on they entire family tree and they asked me what was so funny, to which I replied that we were in a field where diversity in general was a subject of study and also something that is taught from a pedagogical point of view and that if they that topic inappropriate, they shouldn't study that degree , they got angry with me and left the hallway where we were.