Maggie @Maenad@witches.town

@meena ... why?

@Kat yeah but like all clothes they should be "wear them if you want to"

but yeah, cultural or religious apparel tends to be really pretty even if some of that is because it's novel to a western eye

@Kat she's an Iranian chess grandmaster who got kicked off the Iranian chess team for refusing to wear a hijab

she's actually also super pretty

I'm gay for Dorsa Derakhshani

purple cauliflower in this was kind of a mistake

makes it too dark/unappetizing

still delicious

@vantablack yes

I have 50 minutes to shower, walk the dog, make lunch, and get across town

And I'm just sitting here on masto

@chosafine oh god have I unwittingly participated in Discourse⁉️

Just a thing that irritated me last night and I can't get out of my head this morning: CWs are not tags. They are not to increase the number of viewers of a post - they don't act that way. They are to protect the reader.

Sometimes I might CW something in a way that you feel is an overreaction, but I do it so that people sensitive to that stuff (even if only temporarily) don't read it. If I see that the thing goes even near contentious territory and my brain is working properly, it will get a cw for that.

@vantablack What else would your followers expect?

I guess add me on discord (if you want) maenad#8546

@karolat the thing is, it's a come on

once I rejected him he can argue that our (perceived) extra relationship (on top of teacher-student) changed the way I graded his assignments (it didn't), and regrade things

these kind of things happen a LOT

so it's super against all sorts of rules to entertain that conversation

@karolat no, it's pretty inappropriate no matter what

I talked to my boss and she gave me the option of kicking him out of my class, but it would have delayed his graduation by a semester and I'm fundamentally a softy when it comes to students.

did make sure to always have someone in the room with me after that.

@karolat it is a SUPER inappropriate thing to say to someone in charge of teaching you

I guarantee my male peers at the time did NOT have similar shit to deal with from their students

I think the amount of work female professors/TAs at the college level have to go through to earn the same amount of respect that their male counterparts have by more or less default is pretty sexist

🤷

flashback to the time one of my students told me I seemed like I'd be fun drunk

tbf, he was right (at the time)

@SilviaFox isn't that a form of teasing in itself