So one of our new vocabulary words is “malus”, meaning “bad”, and I asked my students if they could think of any English derivatives, telling them that just about any English word that begins with M-A-L is going to mean something “bad”.
I’m expecting stuff like: malice, malcontent, malnourished, or even malware or Maleficent.
Instead I get this one girl in the back of the room say “male” with the most dead-eyed expression.
This has the same energy as two years ago when another student said she remembered “vir” meant “man” because “it looks like virus, and men are a virus”.
One of my Latin students, whenever I’d ask if they wanted a couple extra minutes to review before a test, would always say, “No, we die like men.” And so finally I asked her why it was always ‘like men’. She said, “We die like men, unprepared and useless.”
I was calm on the outside but thinking all the time.
“can men and women be just friends?”
yeah if you dont socialize boys from birth to only see women as sex partners/objects and normalize healthy non-sexual/romantic friendships between men and women
It’s odd because Hillary winning isn’t going be this huge gesture of feminism and female strength that we were made to believe growing up but at the same time if Hillary loses it’s going to be the biggest blow to feminism, women’s rights, and overall equality as it is basically our nation saying that a man with zero political experience is worth more than a woman with thirty years of it.