Complaining About Complaining (or "Hooray For Hypocrisy!")
Okay, I'm in this class called "The History of Women in Pop Culture," and I really, really like the teacher and the subject matter (we've talked about the history of flappers, women in film before the Hays Code of 1930, and women working in bomber factories during WWII, and now we're discussing Wonder Woman; eventually we'll get to magic as a metaphor of women's power as shown in Bewitched and Charmed, and then move on to Buffy the Vampire Slayer---YAY!).
My problem is the other students: they complain about everything---before the teacher comes in, of course. It's obnoxious. They're always like, "These books are just facts---there's nothing to discuss." Yes, there is---why are these things the way they are? Why did they happen that way? What influenced these events? I said that it would be easier to discuss when we got to Buffy, and they said, "Only if you like Buffy---I've never watched an episode." "I've never had a desire to watch an episode." Well, then, kids, don't knock it. And no, seeing a small part of "Hush," getting scared, and turning the TV off does not count as watching an episode. And now that we're reading an anthology of Wonder Woman comics, they're like, "You can't discuss a comic book!" Obviously, they've never read Y: The Last Man (I read the first book when my Women & Gender Studies class offered it as extra credit, loved it, and then read the next book, and I can say that there's a bunch to discuss).
Maybe I shouldn't worry about it because these are freshmen business majors who will become paper-pushing drones who won't actually contribute to society in a meaningful way.