Are University Students So Far Up Their Own Jacksies

[cassa333]

They have to have a hissy fit over what appears to be nothing?.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37926729

I fail to see what the problem is. Unless they actually say what the problem is or was they are acting just like a bunch of nursery kiddies having a hissyfit because they don't like something.

[pixie374]

It sounds like banter... not "oppression"

[Prudie]

Let them throw their dummies for the 15 minutes worth. Reading would never win anyway,

[cassa333]

What in the name of all that's good is happening when university students can't tell the difference between chit chat and sexism etc etc.

[vulcan42]

They'll not be missed.

[Togo]

What they mean is, we were rubbish then and will be even worse this time. Sooo let's furiously virtue signal and gain an audience on line. "Just like wot we av bean taut innit".

[woofgang]

They are students being students. Eventually most of them grow up and some of them even get sense.

[Togo]

//Eventually most of them grow up and some of them even get sense.//

Failing that they go on to forge a career in politics.

[237SJ]

Or maybe because they are university students and have a brain their heads they will actually go on to have some impact on the world

[naomi24]

//they will actually go on to have some impact on the world //

Gawd 'elp us!

[tonyav]

Especially if any of them become politicians.

[Baldric]

Pampered little brats, best ignored imo.

[jourdain2]

It seems as if all these youngsters are so used to being pandered to that they cannot accept being opposed. Just look at the reactions to the Referendum and the US election. It an 'I want...' attitude and it appears that no one has ever told them that they can't always have and that there are other, valid arguments.
They are ridiculously bound-up in themselves and think that they cannot be wrong.

[twix123]

It amazes me that out of more than 14,000 students, only 225 bothered to vote on such an important matter, leading to a majority of 15. Obviously the vote had been rigged.

[Prudie]

Well I'll roll out the old chestnut showing my age - the fact that pretty much anyone can go to University these days (the main criteria seeming to be finance) then the assumption that they are bright brains is just not true.

[youngmafbog]

Generation snowflake me me me that is all.

[andy-hughes]

The main joy of being a young person in general, and a student in particular, is the virtual absence of anything approaching responsibility.

Having everything taken care of for you means that your by-definition level of intelligence can turn its attention to matters of importance.

Unfortunately, because of your lack of age and experience, assessing what is actually important is a bit of a minefield, and as such, you are prone to getting it wrong - thinking something is seriously important when it is not.

Add to that the fact that you are still developing a personality, aided by nominal independence for the first time in your young life, you become hyper-sensitive to the notion that anyone is belittling you, or inferring that you are to be decried or your feelings trifled with.

Add all that together, and you get students failing to understand the difference between simple friendly conversation designed to put you at your ease, and a serious incident of insulting and potentially illegal sexist sledging.

Inversely proportional to the amount of damage actually inflected - zero - is the amount of righteous outrage you feel, with commensurate desire for the world to hear about it, and those 'responsible' to be hauled over the coals and made to atone - total.

And that ladies and gentleman, is what brings us to this situation.

It appears that the university staff - no strangers to the nonsense created by young minds with too much time on their hands - are going to sort it out, and for the rest of us of sufficient age, it merely remains to shake our heads, mutter something like 'Young people today ...' and carry on.

[woofgang]

great post Andy

[andy-hughes]

Thanks woofgang.

[agchristie]

"Hello, I'm Freddy from Reading and I'm reading classic berks".

[naomi24]

^ Haaaaaaaaaaaa!