This Article Is Hilarious
 

This article is hilarious: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...uit/382604001/

I must say I have no stake in the debate, as I enjoy reading Robert Frost as much as poetry “focused on lesbians, illicit sexual relationships, incest and frequent swearing."

I was excited to read that the poetry professor allegedly “exposed her breasts while showing the class a back-shoulder tattoo.”

This is microcosmic.
Btw, not nearly enough detail is provided in the story about the inadvertent exposure of the prof's breast while displaying a tattoo. (I'll be sorry I said that). I blame USA Today's shallow reporting.

It's fence-mending time.

Do we know that it was inadvertent?

John: "Do we know that it was inadvertent?"

No, I guess not... but I deduced it based on this:

Kikkert also alleged that the professor exposed her breasts while showing the class a back-shoulder tattoo.

I suppose it could have been intentional to expose her breast, but not intended to show it -- her back was turned to show her back-shoulder tattoo.

We must get to the bottom of this.

Linked page all gone away now, or so it seems.

The link still works for me.

It works now.

Where was the governor when this was happening? If breasts were exposed, I blame Scott Walker. If a tattooed woman was teaching while flaunting her breasts, I blame the governor. (In Scott's defense, I assume the woman belongs to a union - otherwise he would have acted by now.)

Let's charitably imagine that the tatoo read "Anna Magnani has my back."

Wow. Sounds like poetry class meets sex education :D

Why exactly is this funny? Had she hired a clown to punch students in the genitals any time one of them said “intersectionality” or made them read transcripts of Froot Loops commercials in stilted English accents, that would be highlarious. This is just demoralizing.

Oh, Q - it's funny because she had complained of being forced to study stuff that contained "frequent swearing" - and she got an "F". I laughed aloud at that.

Yes, it surely is hilarious. But this:

"lesbians, illicit sexual relationships, incest and frequent swearing," she said.

Matters not a whit. Look at Baudelaire, who turned out masterpieces on lesbians, illicit sexual relationships, gruesome murders, etc.

Give two poets the same challenge. A lousy one will produce a lousy poem on lesbians, a great poet will produce a masterpiece.

J

lt just killed me that frequent swearing came last. Well, after incest. Because I'm not opposed to anything else listed. Unless you're really a match, of course. But that almost never happens. Humor is so irreplaceable. And so god damned funny.

In as much as I do think humor is essential to being a poet, or artist- I quite simply don't trust an artist who doesn't have the ability to laugh and/or make others sincerely laugh (if I remember correctly, Bunting had words about this), I'll change the topic. (Of course I'm not making a judgement on whether Aaron's thing should or shouldn't be funny. Probably I just need a good laugh myself.) And this is an old, resurrected thread. Anyway, how about that Ford testimony? My god, she did very well. And most importantly, she was authentic and extremely convincing. Now, even before she spoke, I believed her anyway, but, wow, that was compelling.