1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: Am I the a hole for asking my student not 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: to moan in an anime voice in my classroom? 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 2: I will fight for your right to moan in an 4 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: anime voice. Yeah, what do we do? What is happening 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 2: to this country? Sorry? Safe the anime voice? Ah, I 6 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: don't even know is this anime voice? 7 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: She's kind like as high pitched as possible. I'm twenty 8 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: eight and a new professor at an art college. I 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: teach core classes about politics, sociology, and anthropology. Most teaching evaluations, 10 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: feedback from my dean and share and students feedback give 11 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: me incredibly high ratings in creating a safe environment for discussion. 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: Students say, I do a good job relating to students 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: from different views, backgrounds, and expressions. 14 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: That's good. 15 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty good. This is something I take seriously, especially 16 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: as one of the only that I know of out 17 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: non binary professors at the college. I also take it 18 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: seriously as someone who firmly believes in the integrity of 19 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: the classroom and empowering students to have hard discussions. 20 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 2: This is the teacher of all teachers. 21 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, teacher. I make it a point to never complain 22 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: about students, even when they say something transphobic. I poietly 23 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: encourage them to learn, and I'm rated as pretty gentle 24 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: about getting them to think the other way. But recently 25 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 1: I had one of my most uncomfortable teaching experiences, which 26 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: just seems silly. I had a student who is not 27 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: from Japan, has never spent any time in Japan, but 28 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: loves anime and uses a hyper sexual, over exaggerated baby 29 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: like voice known as the anime voice. She took on 30 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: what she perceives as a Japanese name and just really 31 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: acted over excited and over the top constantly oh man, like, 32 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: I'm so excited for class. 33 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 2: Oh, pisan. 34 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: Obisan, so excited for chass. 35 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 2: Dude, that is infuriating. 36 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, that'd be so annoying. As someone who had 37 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: students from Japan, I felt like it was at least 38 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: mildly racist and definitely very cringe for everyone to listen to. 39 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: So I pulled her into a conversation and tried to 40 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: let her see how I saw it, and she has 41 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: since retaliated, saying I don't respect the accents or names 42 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: of students. She's like, respect my accent. Oh wow, this hurts. 43 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: Admittedly I'm a white professor, but the student is not Asian. 44 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: I suspected she might be on the spectrum, so I 45 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: try to be gentle but firm, but as an autistic person, 46 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: autism is not an excuse for inappropriate behavior. She reported 47 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: me as an unsafe professor, which I feel like ruins 48 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: it for the international students I teach, whose name I 49 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: pronounced correctly, whose accents I support, and the LGBT plus 50 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: students who get to have an out non binary professor 51 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: for the first time. Yeah. 52 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: Literally, here's someone who's actually creating like a fantastic environment, 53 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 2: and someone's trying to get kicked out for the exact 54 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 2: opposite of what they actually do. 55 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: It's like, let me talk about enemy voice. No, no, no, bro. 56 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: The admin is mostly white, and they kept asking are 57 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: you sure she isn't from Japan, and I'm like, one, yes, 58 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: and two this is not how people talk in Japan. 59 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: She just did a project about where she is from, 60 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: and she admitted to just never going to Japan. As 61 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: an anthropologist, I feel like it's deeply irresponsible for her 62 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: to use this voice, and since it's perceived as hyper sexual, 63 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: it made me feel super uncomfortable. It's like, oh my god, 64 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: I'm so happy that you're my teacher. 65 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 2: This is a. 66 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: Really big lesson that I have to understand and cram 67 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: in my little brain. 68 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 2: I have to cram so. 69 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: Much information into my little little brain, anime. I'm not 70 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: sure how other students felt, because I didn't want to 71 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: give her any attention because that's obviously what she's craving. 72 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: And people have suggested I was too harsh. That people 73 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: can take on names and accents if they want to, 74 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: So am I the a hole here? Edit? She has 75 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: auto moaned a couple times. The second time is when 76 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: I pulled her aside before class before many other students 77 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: were there like that. I'm also feminine, queer presenting and 78 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: assigned female at birth, so it made me uncomfortable how 79 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: she would also compliment me in the voice or say 80 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: how much she loved my dresses. 81 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 2: Oh my god, your trust is studying. 82 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: Other students have complimented my fashion, but not like this 83 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 1: with like moaning after like, oh, something is definitely off 84 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: about it. 85 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 2: Oh dude, I mean this is like it's so it's 86 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 2: so like insane because here's literally someone like trying to 87 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 2: make the absolute best like teaching environment possible and then 88 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: someone someone takes like the stupidest possible reason of like 89 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: I know this is how I am and want to 90 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 2: express myself and uses that to what was it? Uh? Oh? 91 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 2: She she reported the teacher for an unsafe environment, like dude, 92 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 2: what uh? 93 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: Yeah? I I don't I don't know what to say 94 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: to this. Don't do weird anime voices in class. 95 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 2: Even even though Sam was impersonating it, I still wanted 96 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 2: to punch him in the face. 97 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: I am so sure there's gonna be so many comments 98 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: where it's like that was the. 99 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 2: Most annoying voice I've ever heard. You did this annoying 100 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 2: voice during the story unsubscribe. 101 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, just kidding. 102 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 2: We love you.