A student asked me to fill out a questionnaire for a course about the experiences of professors from other countries. Here is question #1 on the questionnaire:
I don’t know what happened that it’s suddenly normal for young male students to question older female professors about their sex lives, especially in a context where one’s sexuality is utterly irrelevant. I wouldn’t have agreed to participate if I knew that sexuality was going to be brought up. Also, my age? Why not my salary and weight, for good measure?
Obviously, I didn’t answer.
I did wonder why this student decided to send in the questions by email instead of coming over in person. After seeing the questions, I figured it out.
We should really consider not talking about our sexuality at work. That would be a very positive change.
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Would you feel differently if you were asked about your marital status?
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Just as bad. Number of children or chronic health conditions, too.
This is not an anonymous survey! This is all under my own name, and these questions are very inappropriate.
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Your salary is already online so he doesn’t need that.
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And I’m sure you went to check because you are that obsessed with me.
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Yes, but I’m paid better. Nothing about an obsession. I’m just curious about why you talk down the institution so much.
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From a place of great kindness and compassion, I’m asking you to please talk to somebody. You are in a bad way. You deserve better. Please get help.
It’s heartbreaking to see this and not be able to help.
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It’s some sort of diversity rubric, for sure. But unless you’ve been assured that the data will be anonymized, which doesn’t seem to be the case, then the questions are very intrusive.
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Have you read student’s’writing in English?
I have often seen try to sound sophisticated in their writing and choose a word that doesn’t mean what they intend. My guess is that the student meant “sex” or “gender” but didn’t think through or overthought the word choice
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