[Mongeaux]

It's hard to defend the indefensible, but you gotta wonder how a teacher who can't handle a freshman lit class is going to fare at any university.

Perhaps she needs to hide under the academic feminist bubble a while more, so she won't be troubled with any questions.

[subterfuge]

This really gives me some hope that our culture isn’t lost after all.

[LiteKeeper]

This may close to the ultimate in “victimology”!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

“They’d argue with your ideas.”

Well, we certainly can't have that going on in academia now can we?

[2banana]

Hmmm - men don’t really sue for rude students. But hiring men is not PC...

[purpleraine]

She needs to add the parents and all previous teachers in high school to her suit.

[CarrotAndStick]

Priya Venkatesan

[radiohead]

"...Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on “ecofeminism..."

Stopped reading right there. Jebus, Mary and Joseph. No wonder the students went crazy enough to ask her questions!

I'm a university prof and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get the students to question what I've said. She should feel honored that her students are actually thinking about the garbage she's pushing.

[count-your-change]

Perhaps Her Ladyship, the Professor, should become a poster on FR and learn what it means to her views challenged. She might escape with a few patches of skin left intact but no guarantees.

[jazusamo]

Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on “ecofeminism,”

Ecofeminism? Priceless. LOL!

Then, after consulting a physician

Hopefully it was a shrink, she needs a good one.

[tsmith130]

I hope she’s not teaching any class when my daughter gets there in Sept. She can argue like a champ and never take a breath (and she’s pretty conservative for a 17 y.o.)

[atomicweeder]

I had a English lit professor, who was a radical feminist. I once won an argument in class about a plot detail in a short story (she had gotten the detail wrong and therefore her analysis was wrong). When she asked me to "prove it", I underlined the passage in my book and held it up for her to see.

She said (exact quote) : "I don't have to take this!" and walked out of a classroom of 30 people.

Very professional and mature /sarc

[SampleMan]

She got a job using a degree in English and she’s still upset? Unbelievable! Most of her classmates are serving up fries.

[joebuck]

I hope the defendants hammer her with a Rule 11 frivolous lawsuit claim.

[ontap]

You can’t fix stupid!

[samtheman]

“Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct.”

Except for Man Made Global Warming. Now THAT'S some ROCK SOLID SCIENCE!

All the rest... well that's just so much social construct HOGWASH to your good ole', down-home leftist.

But Man Made Global Warming... well that's not just SCIENCE, you understand, that's ANTI-CAPITALISM, and that makes it CORRECT BY DEFINITION.

[weegee]

Does it create a “hostile environment” to “question authority”?

[Flycatcher]

Ms. Venkatesan informed her pupils that their behavior was “fascist demagoguery.”

There we have it, people! Now we know how to get rid of ultraliberal professors — become Fascist demagogues.

I’m game. You?

[EyeGuy]

If I were the students, I’d sue my parents for sending me to a hugely overrated, radical Leftist, Ivy League hellhole.

[DesertSapper]

I’ve had my share of loser professors over the last 20+ years of “higher learning” . . . but this woman would take the prize of Loser Number One!

[Old Professer]

“Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct.”

If she were talking about global warming, I’d agree with her.