My two cents: You're not always alone when you speak up! Your classmate's sexist joke most likely offended more people than just you, for example, or others may have experienced being discriminated against for 'heavy lifting'. This is what's great (posted to Feminism and My Life)
It's so awesome when you find new role models! Good stuff. (posted to My New Role Model)
Great post! As regards the vocabulary issue, I would further argue that it's not just racism - it seems to me a very classist issue as well. Just my two cents. (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)
I agree, the expectation to know classical music and operatic terms are classist---that's why I brought it up, because I had that unfair advantage over someone who couldn't afford to pay for classical music lessons. (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)
That would be so awesome to have questions on bell hooks and feminism. Occasionally I've come across reading comprehension passages that deal with women's oppression. Sometimes I have to bite my tongue because I don't think it's accurate or don't (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)
Hmm, you raise some interesting points about differentiating discrimination between the PSAT/SAT and GRE. However, I disagree with you about what graduate students should know when going into grad school. Graduate school programs tend to be concentrated in one subject, (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)
I think alot of people are missing the major point of alot of these tests. It doesn't matter how relevant the subject matter is - what matters is can you LEARN something, remember, and do well on a test for (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)
