I was reading posts from the WPA list serve this morning (WPA = Writing Program Adminsitration). For the last day, the discussion has been about whether the teaching of writing is more Liberal than other jobs. As a response, someone wrote this comment: "My Republican, older brother who is a rocket scientist (for real) always tells his friends that his sister is a prostitute. He believes that this is better than telling them that I am a liberal college professor."
I seriously thought I was going to die laughing!
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that is a little funny (and a little offensive), but I don't think we should judge people as liberal, conservative, or as some type of religious affiliation/practice by what we do for a living.
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