For many supporters of this campaign, the answer seems to be no. But is it? This is not unusual, even in the age of dating websites and apps. An informal survey for the online magazine Mic found that men and women under 35 were almost twice as likely to have met their current significant other through work Similar findings have emerged from other such surveys.
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January 11, pm: The New Yorker has a sort of an odd piece in defense of MeToo from a really odd piece that was apparently published in Le Monde criticizing it. I left a word out of the title. Get it out of your system. Bill Cosby and MeToo. Trump realDonaldTrump January 11, Twitter has raised its post length limit to characters, which is, I think, generally a good thing, but this also enables Donald Trump to pack more bullshit in each tweet.
Jennifer Rubin notes that two Republican senators also supported the release, [ 13 ] at least after the fact: Sen. And high school teachers have more restrictions in the classroom and in the curriculum than college teachers, yet we each must negotiate institutional expectations, meet our students where they are, and try to move them forward, to help them be more effective, more engaged readers, writers — people.
Do we know what students expect when they walk into our classrooms? How might we acknowledge — and change — their expectations? But you text, tweet, Facebook, yes? Then we engage in a conversation — and I ask them to write.
And we talk. Then we compare and contrast their bad and good writing experiences, looking for similarities and differences, for what elicits bullshit. It is enlightening — for them and for me. There are other flavors, some more subtle than others, feminists who rattle on about how if a male initiates heterosexual intercourse then it is most likely rape or how midwesterners cannot look at an East-Asian without inadvertantly giving them an accent that does not exist. Post-modern bullshit has its own tradition of being more gaudily controversial, thus catching the eye of people like Alan Sokal.
English professors can make a career by writing a book about how not to write and including excerpts from their thesis. There are books written for high school students about not writing bullshit, mostly because eventually they have to go to college where excessive bullshit is not universally allowed in writing. If you teach small children, don't require them to write more than a few pages a year. Get them to take the few pages they write and rewrite them, again and again, with better and better grammar, until they are paragraphs that express what they want to express.
If you teach middle-school students, get them to write creative stories, encourage them to realize what bullshit is when they write long papers and how to cut it the hell out. And most of all, if you find yourself writing awful, ugly, lengthy and bullshitty prose, stop.
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