<p>I LOVE how the OP re-headlined the article! Though I’d add a subtitle: “Requires that Students Assure Baby Doesn’t Swallow Metal Objects.”</p>
<p>This woman is a pip. Her published tirade was an embarrassment to the school. Favorite part: “The flow of my lecture was interrupted once by ‘Professor, your son has a paper-clip in his mouth’ (I promptly extracted it without correcting my students’ gendered assumptions)…” “Gendered assumptions!” A baby, probably bald, dressed in a blue onesie, and some poor kid who tried to make sure the child didn’t get hurt is accused of making “gendered assumptions”. But the best thing to read is the description of her book on the AU website: “Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras (University of California Press, 2008) examines the formation of Honduran subjectivities through an analysis of three intertwined topics: violence, alcohol, and maquiladoras. In the book she argues that the symbolic violence resulting from Hondurans’ embodied obsession with certain forms of “real” violence is a necessary condition for the acceptance of violent forms of modernity and capitalism.” Try to parse that sentence, folks. Sooo glad my D has never been in her class.</p>