I had never heard of this blue-eye/brown-eye experiment before, so I have to admit I was curious before the lecture. It was touted as a "groundbreaking" experiment, so I went in with an open mind to see what all the fuss was about.
What a crock! I couldn't believe that this woman (womyn?) was heralded as a great "researcher" for what basically amounted to harrassing people and observing that they felt bad about being bad-mouthed. Wow, stop the presses.
If that wasn't enough, Elliott ended her lecture/rant by going off on how the map of North and South America is all wrong--South America is, according to her, misrepresented on all our maps and should be shown to be about twice the size of North America (S. America = ~6.8M sq. miles; N. America = ~9.4M sq. miles). This was proof, of course, that us gringos were all racists. Gosh, who knew? Elliott then set up shop after her dog-and-pony show and sold "anatomically-correct" maps of the western hemisphere. If that wasn't funny enough, there were people that were actually buying them (I have no doubt that those people are already in line for Fahrenheit 9/11).
Needless to say, it was at this point that I felt like the last human in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' and ran, not walked, from the lecture hall.
Wow I had the same experience sitting on two diversity panels once. Amazing... I didn't tell them what they wanted to hear I suppose.
That is a great descriptive sentence.