Ableism and Entitled Bitches
This is not an entry about Amanda Palmer, and I will not be discussing Amanda Palmer or Evelyn Evelyn in this journal. My opinions on that are my own and I don't feel like engaging in discussion about them or having someone be hurt over them. Just so you know.
This is about school! More specifically, my computer class and the horrendous bitch in it. So, I have this class once a week for three hours on Tuesday afternoons. It is mostly a lecture class, but we have four projects over the course of the semester, and we get four "lab sessions" in which to work on them. Yesterday was one of those lab sessions. Our Excel project was due, so we were supposed to meet at the lab where we could either work independently or wait for our teacher to arrive and walk us through it.
Fifteen minutes into the class and our Professor has not yet arrived. Now, he has told us that he is undergoing dialysis, and we know that several times he has been delayed due to traffic. Most of us kind of shrug, decide to stay and work on our projects anyway. We pass around an attendance sheet just so we can show him that, hey! We were all here. Another half hour or so passes, and another classmate walks in. She signs the attendance sheet and is settling in when we receive an email from the Professor, which I will quote:
"Please forgive me, due to unforeseen circumstances at my dialysis center i was delayed and will not make it to class tonight. please use this time to work on your projects. thanks."
A few people groan and ask why he waited so long to send the email, but I point out that he sent it from the dialysis center and that something had probably gone wrong; this was most likely the first chance he got to send it. Everyone accepts this and goes back to work on their projects. Except for Bitchy McLate. She gets up, SLAMS her chair back into my table, crumples the attendance sheet (at which I and several others protested) and proceeds to bitch about how this was such a waste of her time. Her rant includes such gems as "I had to get out of bed to come to class", "I don't have diabetes or whatever, but it is NOT a valid reason for missing a class", "He is so inconsiderate, this is such a waste of my time", and when told (by me) that she could work on her project, "Well I've already FINISHED it, I only came because he takes attendance!" All the while slamming her stuff around into my desk and the desk of the person next to her, and finally storming out of the room.
What. A Fucking. Bitch.
First of all, Miss Entitled, you showed up to class an hour late. AN HOUR LATE. You dumb bitch, YOU are the one who is being disrespectful in that case. Oh, you already finished your project? Good for you! Some of us don't have access to Microsoft Office and need this lab time to work on ours. So how about you shut the fuck up with your bitching and ranting and let the rest of us DO OUR FUCKING WORK?! Third, go fuck yourself. No, really. You have no idea what our teacher is going through, WHY he is undergoing dialysis, or how it affects him. The fact that he sent the email late, from his Blackberry, says to me that there were some complications with his procedure that day, meaning he was PHYSICALLY UNABLE to come to class. Yes, medical issues ARE a valid reason to not come to class. His health comes before your inconvenience, I am NOT AT ALL sorry to say, so why don't you shut your bitchy entitled mouth before one of the many annoyed people in the room shuts it for you!
God, I was so fucking angry! What the fuck was she talking about, being "inconvenienced"?! She never comes to class! She has been to four classes in the two months we've had class for! Also, hello, she was a FUCKING HOUR LATE! THAT is what is rude, not someone being SO ILL they literally could not get in touch with us sooner! Jesus Fucking Christ, and the way she was talking about medical issues- half the people in the class were about to beat her up, seriously. One guy's best friend had been on dialysis, he was fuming. One girl had gone through chemo and dialysis in high school, she was ready to punch that woman in the face. Others were just as angry, including me.
Just- what do you say in a situation like that? We were all arguing back, telling her she was wrong, but I feel like I should have done more. And now I'm just left feeling angry at her, and bad for our teacher. My biggest worry is that she sent a bitchy email to him, I wouldn't put it past her. And if was indeed feeling that badly, I doubt an aggressive whiny email is really going to help. Basically I want to go up to her and be like, until you've either 1)had a life altering illness or 2)can act like a FUCKING HUMAN BEING - shut your fucking mouth you entitled bitch.
Thanks for letting me rant, LJ- you're the best!
This is about school! More specifically, my computer class and the horrendous bitch in it. So, I have this class once a week for three hours on Tuesday afternoons. It is mostly a lecture class, but we have four projects over the course of the semester, and we get four "lab sessions" in which to work on them. Yesterday was one of those lab sessions. Our Excel project was due, so we were supposed to meet at the lab where we could either work independently or wait for our teacher to arrive and walk us through it.
Fifteen minutes into the class and our Professor has not yet arrived. Now, he has told us that he is undergoing dialysis, and we know that several times he has been delayed due to traffic. Most of us kind of shrug, decide to stay and work on our projects anyway. We pass around an attendance sheet just so we can show him that, hey! We were all here. Another half hour or so passes, and another classmate walks in. She signs the attendance sheet and is settling in when we receive an email from the Professor, which I will quote:
"Please forgive me, due to unforeseen circumstances at my dialysis center i was delayed and will not make it to class tonight. please use this time to work on your projects. thanks."
A few people groan and ask why he waited so long to send the email, but I point out that he sent it from the dialysis center and that something had probably gone wrong; this was most likely the first chance he got to send it. Everyone accepts this and goes back to work on their projects. Except for Bitchy McLate. She gets up, SLAMS her chair back into my table, crumples the attendance sheet (at which I and several others protested) and proceeds to bitch about how this was such a waste of her time. Her rant includes such gems as "I had to get out of bed to come to class", "I don't have diabetes or whatever, but it is NOT a valid reason for missing a class", "He is so inconsiderate, this is such a waste of my time", and when told (by me) that she could work on her project, "Well I've already FINISHED it, I only came because he takes attendance!" All the while slamming her stuff around into my desk and the desk of the person next to her, and finally storming out of the room.
What. A Fucking. Bitch.
First of all, Miss Entitled, you showed up to class an hour late. AN HOUR LATE. You dumb bitch, YOU are the one who is being disrespectful in that case. Oh, you already finished your project? Good for you! Some of us don't have access to Microsoft Office and need this lab time to work on ours. So how about you shut the fuck up with your bitching and ranting and let the rest of us DO OUR FUCKING WORK?! Third, go fuck yourself. No, really. You have no idea what our teacher is going through, WHY he is undergoing dialysis, or how it affects him. The fact that he sent the email late, from his Blackberry, says to me that there were some complications with his procedure that day, meaning he was PHYSICALLY UNABLE to come to class. Yes, medical issues ARE a valid reason to not come to class. His health comes before your inconvenience, I am NOT AT ALL sorry to say, so why don't you shut your bitchy entitled mouth before one of the many annoyed people in the room shuts it for you!
God, I was so fucking angry! What the fuck was she talking about, being "inconvenienced"?! She never comes to class! She has been to four classes in the two months we've had class for! Also, hello, she was a FUCKING HOUR LATE! THAT is what is rude, not someone being SO ILL they literally could not get in touch with us sooner! Jesus Fucking Christ, and the way she was talking about medical issues- half the people in the class were about to beat her up, seriously. One guy's best friend had been on dialysis, he was fuming. One girl had gone through chemo and dialysis in high school, she was ready to punch that woman in the face. Others were just as angry, including me.
Just- what do you say in a situation like that? We were all arguing back, telling her she was wrong, but I feel like I should have done more. And now I'm just left feeling angry at her, and bad for our teacher. My biggest worry is that she sent a bitchy email to him, I wouldn't put it past her. And if was indeed feeling that badly, I doubt an aggressive whiny email is really going to help. Basically I want to go up to her and be like, until you've either 1)had a life altering illness or 2)can act like a FUCKING HUMAN BEING - shut your fucking mouth you entitled bitch.
Thanks for letting me rant, LJ- you're the best!