Mansplaining Bingo

this is anecdotal but it's worth sharing:

When I was in college I took a programming course in a building shared by some class resembling Women's Studies. There was always an open invitation on the door to sit in on a lecture. I came to class one day to find it cancelled due to my professor being ill so I decided "what the heck" and sat down in their lecture. Turns out I was the only guy in there and the professor was delighted to to have me there. Turns out, she was happy to have me because she was going to try to roast me. At the time, I was decently into feminism so I knew my stuff and defended myself pretty well and was nothing but courteous during the debate. As the roasting went on, the professor was becoming visibly flustered by the fact that I wasn't cracking or saying anything offensive and this baffled me. Most of my views were in agreement with hers yet she was somehow angry about that. She eventually ended up shouting at me for "using feminism as a tool to avoid my own male guilt". At this point she was yelling, red in the face, slightly sweating and just angry as all hell. I was still being calm and collected and told her that if this is how she treats an ally, I would hate to see how she treats an enemy and walked out with her following closely at my heels berating me for disrupting her lecture "No, ma'am, you did that to your own lecture, I was just accepting the open invite on your classes door." She made that sound that frustrated women in cheesy romantic comedy movies make and stormed back into her class.

The next day I got called into the head office of my major which I hadn't ever had to visit before now. Students basically only ever got called there for serious shit. She had figured out who I was by checking the badge log for the buildings doors and reported me for disrupting her lecture. They told me all the things she said I did and a vast majority of them were lies. I told them about the sign on the door and what went down from my point of view. Thankfully, ever lecture is recorded with the entire class in view of the camera (to catch cheaters and whatnot) and they reviewed the entire thing, agreed that I had done nothing wrong and took no action against me. They did, however, take action against the professor for falsely reporting me though I have no idea how you even punish a professor. Maybe she paid a fine or something? I never looked into it.

I would see her from time to time around that part of campus for the next 3 years and she always glared at me. She literally never got over that incident. I was tempted to go visit her office after I graduated to argue with her more but the opportunity never arose. If I go back and visit again I will be sure to try and go see her.

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