I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment (The Guardian, 5/10/26)

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9. I was a homely girl which in a way was a superpower

men didn't hassle me, I could do what I wanted, and the ones who did engage were friends and really great guys because they didn't play those games. It hampered me with some classes, though - this was back in the day.

In one class, the two women students the prof was favouring were very angry at the discrimination - I was the other woman and there were three guys, and the four of us worked like dogs whilst the two pretty women just were handed A grades - they hated it, and felt they were being really ripped off and we were being discriminated against. Our department head, however, would have been VERY receptive if the two women had complained about this prof - she was no nonsense and would have had him on the carpet, tenured or not. So if he had pulled anything, she would have had their back.

ETA: Edited for tenses derangement - I just got done with hot yoga and my brain is fried lol.