SFI: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

[marshtide]

Today we began with the politics thing. The extremely erratic discussion ended with a guy from Congo defending Sverigedemokraterna, aka the Thieving Immigrant Bastards Go Home party, while the teacher stared in some kind of fascinated disbelief.

Then we had adverb practice! We were divided into two groups - men and women. "Write down adverbs that describe what you would like in a partner! In groups!" said the teacher hopefully. "So what would your ideal husband be like?" I was asked. "A lesbian," I said, rather sulkily, I admit, because this is a point I have now been trying to make for some time. Apparently a hilarious joke! Ha ha how she kids us. Like any nice girl would actually be with a woman! Ha ha. So anyway, they got on with a list while I wished for tea (preferably with booze in, by that stage); they would like their husbands to be rich, strong, brave, manly, handsome, etc. Then we switched lists to see what the two different groups had written! Do you want to guess what the first two things on the list the guys had written were? Do you?

"Modest" and "patient".

It continued in much the same vein. "Shy" and "young" also made appearances.

Now I am home, and still feeling vaguely traumatised. Can I please have that tea with booze in? Or maybe just booze?

Comments

[marshtide]

I seriously cannot wait to move on to another class. Which, I mean, will still contain people, and therefore will probably annoy me somehow, but really.

[cimorene]

Yes, it's true, it would be irrationally optimistic to think you couldn't have political disagreements with other people, but I always feel more comfortable with a more mundane conservativism where it seems to me that the evil consequences could be unclear to the people with the views, like about things like, oh, nuclear power or public transport or even people wanting to cut social services, than with the truly out-there ones who are unapologetically racist or "stop ALL the immigration" or "no abortion EVEN TO SAVE HER LIFE" or whatever, where it just seems completely impossible to be unaware and so then it's like they just HAVE to be that evil. And that I just find rather scary.