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"Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students "for being homosexual or transgender." They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for "cross-dressing," by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts."

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Right!?! Doesn't this smack of simple jealousy that the professors can't have as much fun as their students? Their lives must be so empty, which explains why others living their best lives, with lovers, friends, and community is so offensive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sir, please pickup line 2, they said it was Texas calling, but I think it was Giliad just disgusting their voice…

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Religious extremists always use the "slippery slope" argument against progress, because that's what they want.

If anyone ever tells you they have to do something because their religious texts says so, you need to immediately look at the craziest shit that's in there.

Because either they're lying about their reason for doing the first thing, or they're working their way up to the craziest shit.

And regardless of what religion it is, there's going to be some absolutely horrible shit in there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

*except for The Satanic Temple and Pastafarianism.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The Bible actually references abortion and priests giving them to women who their husbands believe were unfaithful. And how that was particularly okay to do. Idk seems to me these folks don't read the Bible.

Bible verses, Numbers 5:11-28 https://www.biblestudytools.com/numbers/5.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Christians that aren't sociopaths, who actually read the Bible (aka, actually comprehend it), typically don't stay Christian very long.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I love this take on religion.
Parallels with the "stupid or evil" assessment I always have to do for conservatives in general

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Two. Two professors. Two are suing for their right to be shitheads. This needs to be clarified. It's not a class action lawsuit or anything. The vast majority of profs I had at UT-Austin, if they are still teaching there, were almost certainly protesting Palestinian occupation along with the students.

(This being said and Texas being what it is, I am surprised it isn't more than two. I can't leave this state fast enough.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure our current SCOTUS, which said that the right to bodily autonomy doesn't exist because it wasn't enumerated even though the Constitution clearly says not all rights are, will have no problem using the exact same reasoning to slap these two Texassholes down, right?

Right?

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of "voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse,"

So apparently you can't get pregnant when you're raped. That's great to know /s

[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

  • Former US House Representative Todd Atkin
[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I’m not confident that dipshit could even point out a vagina in a police lineup.

Edit: he’s dead so he definitely can’t

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Awww man, I missed the news of his funeral. How sad.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Unfortunately for him, his body didn’t have a way of shutting his prostate cancer down for him

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

His must have been a legitimate cancer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

He certainly was.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

That's on him for consenting to prostate cancer /s

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Let’s keep dismantling the education system and see if this fixes things

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That fucker doubled down on that too admitting that he regretted his apology and stands by being a fucking dunce.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wow. I wonder if he thinks that human vaginas have crazy twists and turns and dead ends in it like some other animals do

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Gosh, I wonder what party he belongs to.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

By this logic they should be perfectly fine with any sex that can’t lead to pregnancy, right?

Right?

Right?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dudes that aren't getting laid upset that other people are getting laid

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

the people who are maddest about gays are the ones who are secretly gay and hate themselves most of all. they only say "it's a choice" because they made the choice to suppress it and are angry at anyone who chooses "to thine own self be true"

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"It is a violation of my rights to not be able to interfere with the healthcare of my female students!" - These assholes, apparently

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If the students disobey and miss class for abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students.

...and...

The two men argue that granting students an excused absence in such cases violates their First Amendment rights.

And one of these guys is a philosophy professor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of philosophy professors who are morons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Half of all philosophy professors graduated in the bottom 50% of their class. Pretty shocking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

What's crazy is he actually won some award from the Journal of Philosophy in the past. But brain rot comes quickly for people like him, who has himself been plugged into the right wing propaganda mill since at least 2016.

And one of his self-professed professional interests is "Christian Philosophy," so this is totally on brand for him.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm straight AF, but I'll show up in a kilt (and go regimental to boot) any time my trans friends need an ally.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hell, I'll show up in a silk negligee and edible panties. Wait, what are we talking about again?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well I was talking about skirting the rules, but your idea has merit, too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Skirting the rules by using a dress code. Excellent!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Huge surprise that conservatives hate consensual sex.

They seem to be really focused on just punishing people

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The two rules of Conservatism:

  • I get to do what I want.
  • You have to do what I say.

The professors get to do what they want and flunk whomever they want. The students have to do what they say and only have sex on their religious terms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

That's a perfect description of the conservative mindset.

It's like when they crow about "freedom of speech", which they invariably use to mean "our freedom to be bigoted against you"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

How the fuck do these people think they are going to know an absence is for an abortion? Do they really think their female students are going to volunteer that information in fucking Texas of all places?

It’s pretty damned easy to say “I need time off for a medical procedure” and nothing else, because they aren’t allowed to ask what sort of medical care you are getting. They can ask for a doctors note I suppose but that’s pretty easy to get, and also doesn’t have reasons on it. Or they can say they have a wedding or funeral to attend or whatever.

Or do they think because it’s a woman it’s safe to just assume, as many medical professionals do, that everything medical is related to reproductive systems?

This whole thing is just really gross for no reason other than to be gross. They are just mad they aren’t sleeping with these women.

Although in fairness, I don’t think students should be held to attendance standards in college anyway, it’s a lazy grading metric for failure schools that admit shit students. As adults, students may have other things going on that they need to handle, and if they fail to do the work as a result that’s their problem. I only had a handful of classes that gave a shit about attendance, and I dropped the ones I could because I’m not a child and that’s stupid. (Discussion based courses maybe, but even then, it should be based on participation not attendance)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

If you are female and have to take time off for a medical procedure, they'll just assume it's an abortion and flunk you. After all, why are you in school anyway? You don't need an education to clean house and have babies.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Thumbnail looks like an establishing shot from a zombie movie.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i wish someone would punish me for consexual sexual intercourse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I knew a trans biology professor at UNT. Just looked her up and she's still there but I wonder for how long

I looked her up on ratemyprofessor and while she's not very popular, every comment is about lack of organization, none about gender. I am admittedly surprised

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