Envisage a distant future. It’s the year 2047. We finally have those flying cars we’ve been dying to see since The Jetsons first came out. We have time travel like The Terminator said we would. We are celebrating 100 years of Independence. But, homosexuality would still most probably be illegal then.
It is awful how the LGBTQ community gets treated. Everything about them is stigmatised to the extent that people choose to despise anyone who is not a heterosexual without ever getting to know another thing about them. And if they are not getting bullied at schools, kicked out of homes or brutally murdered, there are ignorant people who wish for them to try and “be natural” and fit in. To tackle this problem, a professor of a human sexuality course designed a set of questions for heterosexuals.
Elise, a 20-year-old college student shared a picture of a slide from a power point presentation titled “Questions for Heterosexuals in the Class.” Any person who does not identify as a heterosexual might find some or all of these questions familiar. The professor based these set of questions on common inquiries made to the LGBTQ community only that the questions are now aimed at heterosexuals to teach them perspective.
my professor isn’t taking anyone’s shit pic.twitter.com/SQrFbjUiz1
— elise (@whererurshoes) February 21, 2017
With questions like, “When did you decide you were a heterosexual?” the professor wanted to show that such questions weren’t easy to answer and should not be asked. Elise told Buzzfeed that the slide was supposed to be funny and her professor “made us really think about why it was so funny.” After Elise posted the picture of the slide on Twitter, it went viral and the responses she got were pretty appalling. While there were some people who praised the professor for her innovative methods of teaching, there were others who wanted her to be fired for being an “angry, ineffective jerk.”
Your professor is not fit to be an educator. No parent pays tuition for his/her kids to be taught this nonsense.
— VuS1 (@nerdeaux) February 23, 2017
Anti-LGBT indoctrination does not open minds.
— Erin Lewis (@ELRinley) February 24, 2017
@coupdebanks this shouldn’t be allowed
— Samuel Alden (@SamuelAlden) February 22, 2017
One day, as an adult, you’ll understand your professor was an angry, ineffective jerk with nothing to teach you
— Justin Browsin (@JustinBrowsin) February 23, 2017
1) God is responsible; 2) When God told me; 3) No, God made me like this; 4) I should follow God’s path for me.
— John Leitzke (@leitzkejs) February 23, 2017
But, of course, there’s always hope:
I think it’s awesome. Making students really think about the fact that it isn’t a “choice.”
— Beth (@PersuasivePR) February 21, 2017
1. it’s a joke and 2. gay people are asked these questions all the time
— elise (@whererurshoes) February 22, 2017
I’m sure you support the separation of church and state?
— Samuel Alden (@SamuelAlden) February 22, 2017
I don’t believe there should be a homophobic version. Let’s treat people like people.
— Samuel Alden (@SamuelAlden) February 23, 2017
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