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I have to list an entire course. My English teacher for Early American literature was a blatant Feminazi. Every book we read for the course was about a turn of the century woman from upper class circles that committed suicide at the end of the book. The themes were all about how the oppression of women in our culture drives intelligent women, who are persecuted by upper class men, to kill themselves rather than endure the humiliation of the (stupid) male dominated America.

She gave me an "F" on every paper because I chose to take the what's wrong with this picture analysis on every assignment. I had to write every one of them over and regurgitate her liberal worship of women. But she knew my real thoughts from those "F" versions. I threw out the passing papers and saved the failing ones!

Ooooh! I bet I know one of the books you read . . . I had to read it too! The Awakening by Kate Chopin. What a fool woman.

I'm already working on inoculating my daughter against the idiot Feminazis. Seems to be working fairly well - she picks up on agendas in books pretty quickly. She had a wide choice of summer reading, including that stupid Chopin book, but she read The Iliad, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Daughter of Time (historical mystery by Josephine Tey - I don't agree with the conclusion but it's still a whacking good read), and a book they were all assigned as a requirement, Into Thin Air by a fellow named Krakauer who was on the failed Everest expedition. The last book formed the basis of a very interesting and wide ranging discussion about the ambitions of man and the danger of Nature. She goes to an excellent Christian school that demands academic excellence and doesn't waste much time on PC nonsense.

My English teacher for Early American literature was a blatant Feminazi. Every book we read for the course was about a turn of the century woman from upper class circles that committed suicide at the end of the book.

Sounds a lot like my high school English class. Was The Awakening by Kate Chopin amoung the books you had to read?

The worst book I've read recently is La Femme Rompue by Simone de Beauvoir, for a college French class. I'm in the middle of reading Les noces barbares for the same class, and it's even worse. Sometimes I find myself trying not to understand French.

You and me both....

I used to be the "token conservative" writer for cal state long beaches newspaper. I wrote a slammer about Prop. 22 (no gay marriage) passing and had a lot of fun making a logical rebuttal of gay marriage while I was smoking pot. Needless to say, the document came out logical but crass. Lo and behold the next week my own Literary Criticism Prof. (gay) had written a rebuttal about my article and called me homophobic and a fascist. The man basically came to class to sell his books of criticism and poetry and give us 4 assignements that he either slanted towards homosexuality "The Secret Stranger" (i think) by London or something that was only about sexuality "Orlando" by Wolfe. Luckly, as I was a token conservative for the paper I used a pen name. This enabled me to rip him a new orface for his moral high horse. I always had a sweet grin at his classes after that article, and the funny thing is that he SHOWED MY ARTICLE TO THE CLASS! He seemed pretty pissed, but he never knew it was me until I saw him at the graduation and informed him that Madge Hott was really me, Matt Hodge... What a sphincter!!! Could he not figure that out???