Do I look like a person who has a personal diary?
Had a project presentation yesterday in which I received yet, the most insulting remark ever. I've always prepared myself to receive any forms of remarks thrown at me, let it be that my project is rubbish, or there's no benefit to it, or a 10 year old can do it, etc, but I have never. never been prepared to be insulted like a person who's incompetent in programming because she's a 'girl'. Especially from my own supervisor who's supposed to guide and support me, but instead joined in the mocking session.
"You shouldn't be telling your problems here, you should have put that in your personal diary", was the one remark that kept floating in my head for more than 24 hours since my project presentation. I don't know if it's just me, but I kept thinking that I am being equaled to a whiny, pitiful girl who occasionally writes "dear diary" on her extremely secret diary which everyone already knows about each time she feels wronged for even the slightest of reasons.
Honestly though, if you were in my shoes, do you feel it's a sexist remark in a way at all? Or I am just overreacting?
As far as I am concerned, I wasn't even telling the examiners about my personal problems. I was merely explaining the problems I faced during the implementation phase of my project. I even put it under "IMPLICATIONS OF STUDY" segment.
I guess maybe I am overreacting. But for a person who's shaved her head bald, had an army cut, cornrows and even bleached my hair white, had 10 piercings, can't live a day without saying the f word, stuffed my pants and even taped my chest during my dumb high school days, and eventhough I've slowly embraced my feminine side I still never went on a date nor confessed my feelings to a guy I like because I felt it was too gay, I find that particular remark as fairly offending.
I hope I'd forget about it soon. I never thought it'd bother me so much up until now. Then again, it's probably true... since I am somewhat whining about it in my online journal aka personal diary.Ahahaha the irony...
"You shouldn't be telling your problems here, you should have put that in your personal diary", was the one remark that kept floating in my head for more than 24 hours since my project presentation. I don't know if it's just me, but I kept thinking that I am being equaled to a whiny, pitiful girl who occasionally writes "dear diary" on her extremely secret diary which everyone already knows about each time she feels wronged for even the slightest of reasons.
Honestly though, if you were in my shoes, do you feel it's a sexist remark in a way at all? Or I am just overreacting?
As far as I am concerned, I wasn't even telling the examiners about my personal problems. I was merely explaining the problems I faced during the implementation phase of my project. I even put it under "IMPLICATIONS OF STUDY" segment.
I guess maybe I am overreacting. But for a person who's shaved her head bald, had an army cut, cornrows and even bleached my hair white, had 10 piercings, can't live a day without saying the f word, stuffed my pants and even taped my chest during my dumb high school days, and eventhough I've slowly embraced my feminine side I still never went on a date nor confessed my feelings to a guy I like because I felt it was too gay, I find that particular remark as fairly offending.
I hope I'd forget about it soon. I never thought it'd bother me so much up until now. Then again, it's probably true... since I am somewhat whining about it in my online journal aka personal diary.Ahahaha the irony...