I do think we ought to note that Rate My Prof is, but its nature,
probably providing a biased sample. Since it is voluntary and online,
it is highly self-selecting, and also selects for people who feel very
strongly one way or the other. That seems quite likely to mean there
are fare more emotive comments than are typical.
This doesn't undermine the value of this resource. Not at all. It's
just that the value is then about gendered patterns in comments made
by people who feel strongly enough to rate.
Food for thought,
Alison
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> Try "sweet", distinguished by gender, and by discipline.
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> Female philosophy professors do rock the term "superhero."
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> Also, if you type in homophobic slurs, you'll find that they are
> almost always targeted at men.
>
>
>
> On 2/11/15 2:02 PM, Lisa Tessman wrote:
> There are some negative terms that seem to be reserved for men,
> including "dick" and "jerk," and couple of other words I won't write
> on a public listserv. But one cannot search for "bitch" because
> ratemyprofessor screens it out.
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Lisa Rivera
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> You are entirely right about that Alison.
>
> I'm so curious to see what search terms people are using. Virtually
> every negative term I could think of was used much more frequently
> for women. Except for 'boring'--that's correlated more highly to
> men--but not by very much.
>
> 'Sarcastic' also correlates more highly to men. 'Unhappy' to women.
> I am going to have a hard time getting any work done today--this is
> too fascinating.
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Alison Reiheld
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> Yes, I think Ornaith is on the write track.
>
> To unpack this a bit, here's what I think may be happening: women
> are supposed to be nurturing, caring, emotional (this is both used
> in their favor and against them). When they aren't, it is a
> betrayal. How unfair that she is not nurturing or caring to me! How
> mean that she is not nurturing or caring, as she ought to be!
> Because if women are not being kind, but are very emotional, they
> must be acting unfairly and in a mean way.
>
> This fits with my recent experiences. In a recent semester, I had to
> come down hard on a student who was consistently absent, not showing
> up for class regularly, making the same mistakes paper after paper,
> etc. That was the only semester that anyone has ever called me
> passive-aggressive on student evals.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Best,
> Alison
>
>
>
> Quoting "ODowd, Ornaith (odowdoh)"
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>:
>
> On the combination of “caring” with “unfair” and “mean,” it strikes
> me as being a lot like a certain teenage conception of “Mom.”
> -Ornaith.
>
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> Hey All,
>
> What a great tool for implicit bias! Can anyone make sense of the
> fact that women are at once "caring" and "unfair" and "mean"?
>
> Alison
> On 2/11/15 6:54 AM, Chris J. Cuomo wrote:
> Wow. I just searched "smart," "interesting," "challenging," and
> "caring" and the results were fascinating, regarding both gender and
> our profession.
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Concepcion, David
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> Enjoy.
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> http://benschmidt.org/profGender/
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