Digital Kitten

I’m a girl and had this same experience with mostly female teachers. I think learning HOW to think not what to think and regurgitate onto the standardized test is where we’ve gotten lost. Also, I think education has progressively gotten worse, the more progressive it’s gotten. We don’t need 5 news ways to teach mutiplication. We should never have removed phonetics from reading. Just because an EdD seeking sorority girl wants a degree doesn’t mean we let them ‘flip the classroom’ for a dissertation, so they can play with other people’s kids until they have their own.

Since so many of us relate to this on a deep level, I would like to have a discussion about what pedagogical alternatives you think would be optimal for future boys/young men. Looking back, how do you think you should have been educated?

@notcoolxer @joeybtoonz And Jim Halpern:

Deadpan is a comedy style, not a facial expression. What you are showing is actually an example of the trope common in the 70s-90s called breaking the fourth wall to share a moment of exasperation or surprise with the audience. This person above has an emotion on their face, and it’s not a normal response to merely being told, ‘hello.’ The Gen Z stare is a blank mannequin looking nobody’s home expression. You can’t tell if they even register you are there, talking to them, or their surroundings.

ME: hello CASHIER: ME: thank you CASHIER:

@notcoolxer @joeybtoonz And Keemit doing this:

@notcoolxer @joeybtoonz I grew up with it, and my husband and I can give each other this look. Eddie Murphy used it a lot.

@LissaJStrange @Euphoric_Levi @QueeringPsych Neither does readhing out to the advisory board, so at least they are consistent? 🤷‍♀️

@Euphoric_Levi @DigitalKitten5 @QueeringPsych That doesn’t even make any sense.

I’m a therapist. Clients come in with self diagnoses all the time. Their self dx is supposed to be an invitation to a discussion. A time to gather info in an unbiased manner from the patient You don’t live in their bodies. You actually need their input for a proper diagnosis

@Tort77019 @emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog Does the definition not include ‘straight’ as a descriptor for the lines?

@emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog Its funny watching 90IQ midwits like yourself attempt to be smart, they all try to pull retard gotchas that only work on other mid wits and lesser intelligence retards

“Intelligent boys tend to butt heads with their midwit teachers.” “Ahh, but have you considered that poor retarded male black and brown students are very disruptive in class? These are not completely separate issues. I didn’t even read your post.”

I’m sure great wisdom was imparted on some 7 year olds to know when the teacher was going to be so easily triggers as to get mad at them for reading too quickly, finishing tests too quickly, or realizing assignments are vague and wanting clarity to do them to specification. You DO realize this tend started in esrly grade school for many of us, not as rebellious teens trying to be edgy?

@argonian_talios @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog But knowing when to pick your battles is.

@SaltyTroonTears @emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog Correct. They are describing nerutoypical group/herd comformity as a measure of intelligence, not acquisition and comprehension and application of knowledge.

@emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog You are retarded, and because of that you are conflating intelligence with agreeableness.

@emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog ‘Excuse me, Teacher, you asked us to circle the rectangle but you have a rectangle AND a square here, am I supposed to circle both?’ is not interrupting class. And teachers get pissed when you are uncertain because their test is dumb.

@Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog So interrupting the class in order to stroke your ego? Doesn't sound like intelligent behavior to me.

@emhill2100 @SlumRNA_Dog Teachers hate when you point out their questions are actually ambiguous amd have more than one correct answer (girl, here, picked on by female teachers for the same reasons the guys are relating).

@SlumRNA_Dog If the boy was actually intelligent he would quickly learn that antagonizing the teacher is a bad idea.

@stefaniasettle @uncledoomer 😂 yes

@uncledoomer The Venn diagram between all three is just a circle

what im seeing from the twitter timeline this week is that if you had a good time in school, never got in trouble for reading ahead, being excited, you are a subsentient midwit giga fried turbo normie npc, and if you had an active feud with your teachers, you are likely 130+ IQ

@GunsNAmerica @Hydroman11234 Gen X got openly mocked by teachers and peers. Lucky for us, we didn’t have the internet to be shamed on. School was where you went because they forced you, then you were free to be on your own till whatever curfew existed for you.

@Hydroman11234 Half the time the teacher makes fun of them in sly ways

If you’ve been to a public high school within the past half-decade you’ll see a phenomenon called “Zoomer hesitation” where kids will refuse to raise their hands and answer questions out of fear of mockery from either teacher or student or both

@GunsNAmerica Even worse, they may know the material well, but the teacher wants the regurgitated answer, not an answer from understanding, because they need the standardized test responses.

@hoodii30 They likely are not grabbing for toys or food or even hands or mom well, missing things, and you can see if someone’s eyes are focused - look at a pretty drunk person sometime and see how their eyes are not where they should be.

Maybe I’m dumb and that’s fine but I need to ask. How do they know a baby can’t see properly

@sakpo0007_ @TheMuppetPastor take a stab at this one? You seem pretty good at it.

Can someone pls explain this Bible verse to me like I’m a 3 year old?

@JillBarrie25 @DiaryofaSickGrl Few people get it and I can tell it makes them uncomfortable talking to me, or, some get outright irritated if I let on I am unwell at all.

@DiaryofaSickGrl I usually just say in a "fake" happy tone of voice, "I'm okay". I do this even when I'm not feeling well from my chronic diseases. I don't like to get into details on my medical stuff unless I feel like I need to with just close family or close friends.

How do you respond to “how are you?”

Wow. I’m autistic (only learned it in my 40s) and remember having someone help me in high school with a few social cues I routinely froze on, like ‘how are you? Shaking hands, and that it was ok to say thank you for a compliment (I felt it was egotistical). I cannot recall who explained to me you ALWAYS ask the reciprocal question, or give the reciprocal greeting, and have wothout fail, since. But people often ‘forget’ to do the same to me. 🤷‍♀️

@DiaryofaSickGrl Good, thanks , and you ? I hate when I ask how they are first , and they say good. And that’s it . Do not ask me in return , it’s so rude.

@DiaryofaSickGrl ‘Upright and vertical, and you?’

I got excited about the idea of DMSO oil, but since my anaphylactic reactions re like russian roulette and it has to be ‘cut’ with a carrier oil, it seems messy at best and hazardous at worst. 😔 like, I can’t just fill the tub with it and soak all over, and get out be an oily mess hoping it helps.

@DigitalKitten5 @DexBonkAllstar @QueeringPsych That’s an interesting way to look at pain, especially in chronic conditions where people often learn tofunction through it. I’ve seen DMSO oil,fenbendazole, and ivermectin reported to support overall wellbeing, including pain relief and improved mood. @Darus_medicals is my source

Most early childhood education majors I’ve met are sorority girls who want to play with kids in classrooms until they husband-up and have their own kids. Some get bitter when Mr. Right hasn’t swiped right on them, and may resent the kids they teach because of anger about the kids they will never have. And, petty people like to be large and in charge and what better place than somewhere you are literally bigger than a captive audience you can indoctrinate?

@RevanWashington I find it so sad that education, especially early education, seems to attract so many petty, horrible people.

The "2nd grade teacher wants to destroy me for reading ahead" experience is a subset of the broader canon experience of realizing many people with influence & power not only don't want what's best for you, a child, but actively root against you & may even intervene to harm you