“Professor’s salary” made me laugh. I’ve looked back over ten years and mine has remained fairly stagnant the entire time, and actually in negative growth with increases in healthcare premiums, etc. resulting in the same - or lower - net pay each paycheck. This is despite having a higher teaching load than ever.
Yes! Me too. So that involved getting paid less per credit than tenured professors AND if your load wasn’t full time for any reason (usually not by choice) adjuncts are paid even less.
I took a position as an adjunct after having taught in public schools for 7 years. That choice came with a humane schedule complete with reasonable lunch & bathroom breaks, but also a $20K pay cut.
Your posts responding to male critiques in your comment section are my favorite. They show so clearly what our problem is, and why it’s so essential that we wake up now. Sadly, so many women as just as conditioned into supporting a power structure that is killing them. Killing the planet. We are at an evolutionary pinch point.
You narrate men's experience to them like an unimaginative storyteller
And you're surprised they protest ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you know, just because they are not as fluent or knowledgeable as you doesn't mean they are wrong to protest when their experience is being narrated to them : that usually happens very instinctively
nobody needs to prove or disprove your point, you're free to believe whatever you want
the people who still hope you can understand them get angry and protest
the rest have stopped trying to communicate with you
It is good to share your thoughts. The challenge with writing like this is that it did not diagnose where the structure came from at all and they only point toward its problems.
A child first born reorients its parents toward its vulnerability. First the mother, then the father (and not the other way around).
A mother and father reorient their work to provide for the child. But what happens when there are a thousand families doing the same? They coordinate for efficiency by forming shared rules, shared labor, shared protection, shared pathways. This need for coordination creates the “king,” not initially as a ruler, but as an organizer. Yet each step down this developmental path creates distance from the original purpose. Eventually the “king” forgets the child entirely and imagines he appeared out of nowhere, entitled to rule. And in that forgetting, he also forgets the mother.
When scaled up to community, state, and nation, the mother-father-child pattern always forms a mother‑presence and a father‑presence and a child presence (all of us individually). The mother‑presence is sanctuary seen in religion, parks, schools, hospitals, and other places of care. The father‑presence is governance, production, and protection and this is what we now call patriarchy.
The mother is anchored in love to the child, and together they form a presence that calls the father to complete the same journey toward love.
When the mother‑child presence thins, the father‑presence has nothing calling it back. This thinning has occurred dramatically in the church system, whether through individual choice, or by forming patriarchal church systems or abuses within the institution, as it became infected by patriarchal ideas instead of enduring as the mother‑presence for all humanity.
The sex of the individual has no bearing on structure. What matters is how they operate within the structure itself.
Being tired of patriarchy isn’t about dismantling it but instead about helping it complete its journey, where it learns its role is not dominance but service: to serve the first child, the next child, and every child after that.
“Professor’s salary” made me laugh. I’ve looked back over ten years and mine has remained fairly stagnant the entire time, and actually in negative growth with increases in healthcare premiums, etc. resulting in the same - or lower - net pay each paycheck. This is despite having a higher teaching load than ever.
I was an adjunct when I was teaching so I didn’t even get insurance or consistent schedules. It was SUPER FUN.
Yes! Me too. So that involved getting paid less per credit than tenured professors AND if your load wasn’t full time for any reason (usually not by choice) adjuncts are paid even less.
I took a position as an adjunct after having taught in public schools for 7 years. That choice came with a humane schedule complete with reasonable lunch & bathroom breaks, but also a $20K pay cut.
People do not understand this reality.
“Like” because there’s no other option. But yeah… the system thrives on the lack of academic power and lower costs of adjuncts.
Footnote #2 made me spit take.
I feel bad for any Kevin reading this who isn’t a horrible person.
You are the best. Thank you, thank you!!!
Well done! Only planetary aliens think professors actually make $. 🙄
Your posts responding to male critiques in your comment section are my favorite. They show so clearly what our problem is, and why it’s so essential that we wake up now. Sadly, so many women as just as conditioned into supporting a power structure that is killing them. Killing the planet. We are at an evolutionary pinch point.
So much to think about. To bad we can't have a conversation because words matter, intent matters.
Thank you Professor.🕯️🖇️🖇️📎🖇️💙
This is very funny
You narrate men's experience to them like an unimaginative storyteller
And you're surprised they protest ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you know, just because they are not as fluent or knowledgeable as you doesn't mean they are wrong to protest when their experience is being narrated to them : that usually happens very instinctively
nobody needs to prove or disprove your point, you're free to believe whatever you want
the people who still hope you can understand them get angry and protest
the rest have stopped trying to communicate with you
Very well stated! It seems that when men feel threatened in any way,They create a war against women in which they MUST win at any and all costs.
Thank you for doing this work.
It is good to share your thoughts. The challenge with writing like this is that it did not diagnose where the structure came from at all and they only point toward its problems.
A child first born reorients its parents toward its vulnerability. First the mother, then the father (and not the other way around).
A mother and father reorient their work to provide for the child. But what happens when there are a thousand families doing the same? They coordinate for efficiency by forming shared rules, shared labor, shared protection, shared pathways. This need for coordination creates the “king,” not initially as a ruler, but as an organizer. Yet each step down this developmental path creates distance from the original purpose. Eventually the “king” forgets the child entirely and imagines he appeared out of nowhere, entitled to rule. And in that forgetting, he also forgets the mother.
When scaled up to community, state, and nation, the mother-father-child pattern always forms a mother‑presence and a father‑presence and a child presence (all of us individually). The mother‑presence is sanctuary seen in religion, parks, schools, hospitals, and other places of care. The father‑presence is governance, production, and protection and this is what we now call patriarchy.
The mother is anchored in love to the child, and together they form a presence that calls the father to complete the same journey toward love.
When the mother‑child presence thins, the father‑presence has nothing calling it back. This thinning has occurred dramatically in the church system, whether through individual choice, or by forming patriarchal church systems or abuses within the institution, as it became infected by patriarchal ideas instead of enduring as the mother‑presence for all humanity.
The sex of the individual has no bearing on structure. What matters is how they operate within the structure itself.
Being tired of patriarchy isn’t about dismantling it but instead about helping it complete its journey, where it learns its role is not dominance but service: to serve the first child, the next child, and every child after that.
To remind it why it existed in the first place.