r/AmIOverreacting • u/ellabirdbug • Apr 23 '25
🎓 academic/school AIO... Weird Professor
So.... I've always got the feeling that my college history professor is a bit... strange. I have always noticed that he tries to appeal to male students through strange jokes and comments (usually about internet memes/culture), but acts oddly with some of the female students (I present myself as pretty alternative and he gives me strange/objectifying looks occasionally... this context will help). This is the first time I got genuinely uncomfortable in his class. We're learning about the Goths (a Germanic tribe) and this picture came up :(. He even said "big titty goth girls" and I have a recording of it because I'm allowed to record my lectures. He also kept grinning and glancing at me while he was making this "joke." People in the class laughed but I wanted to run away... is this worth bringing up with the school or am I overreacting? (If it helps, he has many STRANGE ratings/comments on his "rate my professor") (He even made a BDSM joke onetime...)
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u/notamaster Apr 23 '25
If they are making you uncomfortable then you're not. You have every right to take class and not feel uncomfortable.
The biggest question is, what do you want to do about it. It is possible it's not intentional and the looks are being misconstrued, as it is also possible it's 100% what you think.
Going to the head of the history dept and saying hey this is making me uncomfortable and I don't know what to do. Is likely a good starting place. Don't talk to them directly unless you feel comfortable having this awkward (at best) conversation rather than bringing someone else in.
IMHO Best to let someone else whose job is to deal with such things.