professor bitch

Okay, I admit I was making dinner at the time.  And I don’t have any cable, so I was streaming C-Span on my laptop to see/hear the debate.  And every once in a while I would turn on the faucet that would drown out the limited sound capacity of my computer without additional speakers… but I could have sworn I heard Scott Brown tell Elizabeth Warren not to interrupt him – because he wasn’t one of her students.

Dick.

Swallow a glass of wine.  Close my eyes.  Take in a deep breath.  My blood goes from temperate to boiling on this matter.  Ask anyone – my friends – how quickly I get angry about this.  It isn’t even the politics.  And yet it is very much the politics.  But it isn’t just Elizabeth Warren.  It is Martha Coakley.  It is Hilary Clinton.  It is Hermione Granger.  It is me.  

Smart girls should just hold their tongues.  Just because they think they know something doesn’t mean they have to share it.  Never mind get excited about it.

Chuckle.  Chuckle.  Don’t be so serious, Jessie.  Honestly.  Shake head.  Silly girl.  Because, really, you are just a girl, right?  So what if you know facts?  You are lacking a Y chromosome.  So (another head shake and chuckle – oh, let’s throw in a palms up, oh I was just making a comment), no need to get so enthusiastic about what you think you know.  You’re just a girl.

Although, I’m sure if you want to age me and say woman, it’s probably the same thing.

Thing is, I usually let this one slide off my back.  I’ve always been smart.  I’ve always been laughed at for it.  Since I was seven.  I learned to shrug my shoulders over it and sigh that maybe I don’t know everything, but I will try to seek out why I might be wrong.

Wait a minute, what does this have to do with Scott Brown?  Nothing.  And everything.  He got in the senate on this attitude.  Smarty pants Coakley was a cold bitch.  She doesn’t know how to go to Washington.  She doesn’t know how to get off that intelligence pedestal and be a real man… and drive a truck.  So how can she possibly have anyone else’s interest at heart?  She’s just a bitch who says things that could be smart.  But so what?

Now this Elizabeth Warren chick.  Well, she goes around talking facts.  You know, things like a history of votes.  Or breaking down what the banks are doing to screw us over.  But she’s just a professor.  You know, the cold-hearted type of witch that probably flunked you out of a class so you couldn’t go party all summer.  That nasty woman who claimed to KNOW stuff and dare to judge what you know when grading an exam.  Professor.  AKA bitch.

Maybe you get what I’m talking about.  Maybe you think I’m just some bitter single woman who wants to whine about how unfair life is.  Whatever.

I’m still smart.

And Scott Brown, you’re still a dick.