We were in a group discussing sketches we wrote. The thing is, I explain my methods to everyone in great detail. This isn't because I think they don't understand it, it's because I want people to tell me if I'm wrong at any point. Showing your work, so to speak. Some girl was stood up, and said "you don't have to mansplain it to me" One of my classmates (also a man) was just like "That's how NK talks." However this girl who was coming to our class to make up another class wouldn't participate until I apologized and my teacher, being an outspoken feminist said.
"NigerianKnight, apologize, so we can get on with class."
to which I responded
"No. If she thinks I was being condescending, then she can say so, but I'm not going to apologize for talking down to her for being a woman when I did no such thing."
my teacher then responded
"It doesn't matter, she feels offended, and you have to take responsibility for the offence you caused".
At this point I started to get warm faced. You know, that feeling when you are sure you're right, but you feel like a lot of people think you are wrong. It's a new class, so I only knew a few people from other classes, and you could kind of hear people saying "just apologize". But if there's one thing I don't like doing, it's apologizing publicly for something I didn't do. So then I went into full a****** mode and said
"Nah. I don't give a s*** if this baby gets offended or not"
Then my teacher wouldn't let me participate either. I said "fine, you're a s*** teacher anyway and walked out of the classroom." I then went to the training center and swapped classes to a different teacher.
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