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Mar. 2nd, 2006 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolI had a lot to write about today, but honestly, I am so angry right now I can't do anything other than relate what happened to me in my ME1002 tutorial:
Arsehole: Ramble ramble something about Hellenic culture...
Me: Sorry, Hellenic is Greek, right?
Arsehole: Oh, yes, yes. Oh, sorry, I forgot you might not know what it meant; you're the one that went to a comprehensive Northern school so won't have the same educational opportunities...
I couldn't think of what to say. Option one was to thump him, tell him I went to the second best college in the country and that at least I wasn't relying on Mummy and Daddy to get me through my education, and the second was to burst into tears and feel inadequate. I just went "I didn't do classics so I didn't really know, thank you for clearing it up for me and didn't say anything for the rest of the class.
The tutor did cough and say in a very Scottish accent "I would argue there's nothing classical Greek in that source" and I could have hugged her.
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spockette, I'm sorry for not being in RU1012 but I had to sit through a lecture after that I probably would have exploded under the weight of working-class guilt and the urge to kill things.
Am I somehow a bad person because my education was paid for by the tax-payer? No, that's not even it, it was the total contempt in his voice as he said 'working class' and then the pity. Am I somehow a lesser person? Is my education and intelligence worse? God, next time I won't ask.
Combined with a tutorial in which I got the mick taken out of me for using 'Native American' and asking if that was the current term used in academia I just wanted to cry a lot.
It was unfair and I shouldn't get so narked by this but I am.
[eta: it may be worth pointing out that, well, he said in a sort of matter-of-fact tone, as though he wasn't putting me down for it, it was just a statement of fact that my education was limited because of how much money my parents earned and where I came from. It wasn't even nasty, so I can't get as justifiably angry. Bah.]
~Hathy_Col~
Arsehole: Ramble ramble something about Hellenic culture...
Me: Sorry, Hellenic is Greek, right?
Arsehole: Oh, yes, yes. Oh, sorry, I forgot you might not know what it meant; you're the one that went to a comprehensive Northern school so won't have the same educational opportunities...
I couldn't think of what to say. Option one was to thump him, tell him I went to the second best college in the country and that at least I wasn't relying on Mummy and Daddy to get me through my education, and the second was to burst into tears and feel inadequate. I just went "I didn't do classics so I didn't really know, thank you for clearing it up for me and didn't say anything for the rest of the class.
The tutor did cough and say in a very Scottish accent "I would argue there's nothing classical Greek in that source" and I could have hugged her.
spockette, I'm sorry for not being in RU1012 but I had to sit through a lecture after that I probably would have exploded under the weight of working-class guilt and the urge to kill things.Am I somehow a bad person because my education was paid for by the tax-payer? No, that's not even it, it was the total contempt in his voice as he said 'working class' and then the pity. Am I somehow a lesser person? Is my education and intelligence worse? God, next time I won't ask.
Combined with a tutorial in which I got the mick taken out of me for using 'Native American' and asking if that was the current term used in academia I just wanted to cry a lot.
It was unfair and I shouldn't get so narked by this but I am.
[eta: it may be worth pointing out that, well, he said in a sort of matter-of-fact tone, as though he wasn't putting me down for it, it was just a statement of fact that my education was limited because of how much money my parents earned and where I came from. It wasn't even nasty, so I can't get as justifiably angry. Bah.]
~Hathy_Col~
