MSNBC lets me down. MSNBC doesn't usually let me down.

[sab]

Holy useless interview, Batman. Some Mail-Order Psych Student Strings Together a Trite and Bogus Theory Behind Teacher/Student Relationships. Alongside a strangely irrelevant and pretty damned creepy photo.

(PSA: If you wanna grok the real psychological dirt all up in teacher/student relationships, please ask me or spycookies or projectjulie instead.)

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[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

I wouldn't mind learning some nitty gritty about teacher/student relationships.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

Yeah, dude.

::reconsiders::

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

Wait, I mean, yeah, dude!

::cough::

[projectjulie.livejournal.com]

They’re certainly having a lot of psychological issues where they just cant seem to control their impulses.

it's typical of a psychologist to attribute such a phenomena to individual pathology rather than to a social apparatus. looking at this as a Foucauldian, it seems obvious that the school is a privileged site of subjectification and discipline, and that these processes are necessarily shot through with the erotics of power relations.

I'm also rather fond of Patty White's commentary (http://www.genders.org/g32/g32_jagose.html) on "[lesbian] intergenerational relationships – like the pedagogical" in classical cinema.

then, of course, there's Jane Gallop (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822319187/qid=1123437484)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

Okay, that's pretty cool. Thank you!

[projectjulie.livejournal.com]

see also: academic_love, professor_lust, authorityfigure -- hee!!

[empressaurelius.livejournal.com]

I'd like to hear what you have to say, definately!

P.S. DO you have plans for before/after the concert on August 20th? Maybe we could hang....

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

Would love to hear yer theories!

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

That picture! AUUUGGGGGHH. *scrubs furiously at brain*

DUDE.

Yeah, I know it's part of the video, but *damn*, they shouldn't've used that shot. At the very least, they should've given it a caption that makes it slightly less OH MY GOD WRONGWRONGWRONG.

(Also, dirt would be good. *g*)

[flouritephoenix.livejournal.com]

Um, don't male teacher/female student relationships happen so often that they don't make local news, much less national news? And we're statistically looking at a small groups of women, but we all hear about them because since it is so rare, it makes it, um, news?

[thedorkygirl.livejournal.com]

I gave up on grokking student/teacher relationships when my then-best online friend and her English teacher started a lesbian affair that spanned LJ. Heh. Beat that shit. It's sex chaste longing in the 21 Century.