#this is one of those ‘oh yeah we’re stewards of the planet’ moments #the skill with which she grabbed that bird tho #apex predators who take it upon themselves to heal and repair little things…
The Samantha Fulnecky essay is so so obviously a setup. Like, the grad student was put in an impossible position but the essay was bad on purpose to get a bad grade, and it’s obvious.
the “nuance” and the specific arguments literally do not matter. The essay isn’t bad because she’s stupid; this reactionary cis woman is trying to launch a comfy influencer/media career off of getting a transgender woman fired.
THIS is Charlie Kirk’s legacy, by the way. It allows conservative students to see transgender faculty as somone whose lives they can ruin and launch into medium-sizsd stardom. The rest of transphobic society goes along with it and ignores the blatant transphobia in all of this (transmisogyny in this specific case) and tries to argue about ohh the essay was bad or whatever. This is because if they admitted that this woman was doing this on purpose, they might have to give even a slight inch on being hateful bigots to trans people. Refocus the conversation. This is about a conservative student cynically using the fact that her TA is a trans woman to launch her name into the national media.
