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Male Professors, It's 2018, Stop Assuming Women Cannot Learn Just As Well As The Men

We have "equal rights," but why don't we have equal opportunities?

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To start off, I would like to explain the situation. From the beginning of this course I'm in, there has been a 2:9 female to male ratio. I have been completely fine with this, until my male professor started questioning if the females were smart enough to take the course. Not trying to boast, but I took AP Calculus my senior year of high school, and it is basically the same thing as the Calculus 1 class I am in. That being said, I kinda know what I'm doing.

It is 2018, not 1950. Women are just as capable, if not more capable, to do things as men. What really makes me mad is when my professor looks at me and the girl behind me, after almost every problem and says, "Did you get that?" Why didn't he ask the guys in the class if they understood it? Do you not get that we also have a brain that works? Didn't see that one coming did you? We, as women, are just as capable as men to ask questions. We do not need you trying to hold our hands through the semester.

What we do need, is to be respected. We deserve the same treatment as men.

Women can vote, go to school, have a job, own property, and so many other things that we weren't "allowed" to do back in the day. It is not acceptable for grown men to try and diminish our values, our confidence, or our right to have a brain. No offense, but just because it is a male-dominated class or workforce, a woman can still do just as well. I hate how men these days still think of themselves as the dominant sex. Are parents raising their boys to think this way, or is it something they acquire from being in male-dominated classes or teams? To the women who are raising their young boys and maybe even girls, to believe that women should only do things relating to teaching, cleaning, or cooking, you are what is wrong with the world.

Raise your children to believe that women can do just about anything we set our minds to.

That being said, so can men. However, I am just sick and tired of the sexist men, thinking that they are the only ones who can do something "difficult." Look out, because women are taking over the world as we speak. And just because you don't give equal opportunities, doesn't mean that we won't make it work.

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