I cannot apologize for the 5s I got, not my fault at all, I am afraid. But it was already a miracle that a harassment complaint in Australia - no female student was ever given final reason in a Court - ended up with a Diploma and a transcript adequately written by the Registrar, believe me! - I must state that these 5s tell nothing about my abilities/skills because they were obtained from essays with no proposed guidelines, never returned to me at all, and which bear no comments up to today, not even verbal comments, that could make any possible sense for someone who had studied the problems I wrote about. One more for the sexism/Chauvinism in Academia/life, I am afraid, cannot win always. Some you will miss. Even because you forget to complain about with so much to complain about. So many unreasonable lecturers, I am afraid, with absolutely non-objective evaluations, allowed by the systems in place. Sorry for those who suffer like me. Got rid of one 5 at University in Brazil for replying with the precise age of the lecturer when he asked me about it. Same reason, exams that are of the sort `write whatever you like, let me give you whatever I feel like, independent of knowledge or skills demonstration'. I am a personal defender of objective examination. No wonder I have chosen Mathematics and you can tell the difference between one discipline and the other. Look at my marks in a Maths discipline (objective, marked, returned) - 7, high distinction. It is not that every Philosopher has got fancy ways of evaluating people because I must always compliment Dr Deborah Brown for her so well planned and given classes, her so well taken care of tutorials. God knows I have never seen someone in Research who could teach others so well. Extraordinary lecturer, whose classes should never be missed. If it was not for her classes, I would never have thought of an original (so far, nobody has proved the opposite) solution to the Sorites paradox. Definitely her classes. Chased her as supervisor for my project on the Sorites, but was not lucky enough to have the chance. I really think that people cannot hold argumentation in favor of the sort of exam that goes `write whatever you like' in any subject/discipline. Dr Deborah is there to prove that Philosophy is also to be measured objectively. I do hang crap on those who use knowledge to oppress and get partners. For God's sake, go to a pub and `let the kids alone'! Personally, I believe some people are really unattractive, boring, uninteresting, and end up thinking that knowledge is a weapon, a way to oppress and oblige others to become their partners for casual sex, showing off, or even for marriage. Have watched that several times, 100% of the time coming from males. That is the basic reason for them to exclude women from knowledge since birth. Men are far more supported in absolutely every possible sense in Academia life. It is a quite a shame the episodes of sexism I have watched myself. Male lecturers/teachers seem to take all the power/will to win away from women. Whilst they empower males, they oppress, victimize, and always come up with strong voices or aggressive tones of voice to shut up women's mouths. Unfortunately, women do fear high voices, aggressions of any sort, or threats. It is not that I have not watched a totally worthless woman also begging for a mark she never deserved and the lecturer, joking, stating that just kissing him before the whole class...she then says: really?...he goes: really. She goes, before all of us, kisses, he gives her the mark. Sorry for this one, she is not a woman in my opinion. Am talking about those who have min honor and decency. Am talking about me. On the other hand, however, I am pretty sure she was never motivated to learn and show off in her marks at school by her own father/mother. So that it is not her original fault. She may think she never had a choice and is completely incompetent so that if she does not offer other attributes, she won't pass and passing is important to get a job. Empowering women is fundamental. It is not equal treatment, it is empowering. Women are far more oppressed all the time all over this World than men. They are just used to see themselves as less. And if they are not, whoever suffers what I have suffered from 2000 to 2002 in Australia by my harasser of twice as much age as me, will understand what men are able to do to convince you, even if you are not amongst those, that you are definitely less. Thing is obviously that you have a decision. It is either being bitter, bragging about that your whole life, or accepting the system eventually and trying to use it in your favor. Sometimes it does look impossible and you really end up losing your whole life for the organized Chauvinist team and their crimes against you in a generic sort of manner, lots of women included as victimizers, unfortunately. That because even though they might not fall on the `I am less' side, they still fall on `they are definitely less side', that is, the other women are definitely less. Women are naturally much more than men, born to be leaders, to deal with far more information. God only knows how men have twisted things so astonishingly since Inquisition that women were reduced to the place of no power, no money, dependency, ... but they are the ones who usually do not even clean their toilet seats, that is, those in whom it is missing something naturally, incomplete. Women were made from a rib of men??? Why not it is just the case that they came without a rib to prove they were less even physically/anatomically? To remind them naturally of such once they are naturally so arrogant, so full of illegitimate power over others? Women are far more than men. Even the counting of neurones prove we are better: less of them doing the same tasks with more power and control over a range of different tasks (totally different). Naturally more skilled in absolutely every possible sense. And it really astonishes me how women take it all from men. Things that are outrageously wrong such as that we are worse drivers. We are not. Such has been proven in Statistics. Far less accidents. They are less. Problem is that if everyone in the World is really convinced they are less, then they should become more... they should improve. They should do their own dishes, clean their own space, wash their own clothes, share, etc... And that is what they don't want. Of course, if we have money and power over the World, we are going to `produce' a World where we deserve it even if that is not the case. Who is daddy? Who has got the power? Men, of course. And those who resemble them (lesbians, prostitutes). Male values are worse for the World and almost everyone could go without a father, even thinking this is a blessing, but not without a mother. Women should literally be adored, just like the bees Queen. They are those who generate the whole race. And GOD WANTED THAT. Everyone else should serve us in absolutely every sense. Female prostitutes??? Why??? Those who can easily attach/detach in sex are males. Therefore, they are far more suitable to prostitution. Everything wrong, everything twisted. Me, myself, lost my whole life in the last five ys for organized crimes against me. Perhaps in a book or soap opera soon, don't know. But crimes not even possible up to 2002, so evil, so coward, so atrocious. Why? Because I was desperately in love once with a man from Australia and gave all my heart to him. Not by the time of the victimization anymore, when I was already disappointed, but before. And that, unfortunately, instead of helping me being protected, helping me being more supported, helped me diving big and down, all the way down...victimized by absurd crimes for trusting that the male I loved once so strongly would never betray my heart and serve me to criminals in exchange for favors, money, or advantage. To the women who win in this World: I know they have never loved a male desperately. It is the only way to win in a MALE dominated World. Their values are everywhere and, therefore, following their Logic makes of you a true winner, never victimized. Their values are total detachment is the best, that is, women are disposable and replaceable. There is nothing I can do with one that I cannot do with another one. Once the climax of a relationship, the place men and women are closest, is the bed, if they do not see that with respect, and women fall in love with those who provide pleasure, women always loose. Vulgarization of sex, prostitution places with women that are cheap and do all, that is, paid, disposable, replaceable, press in favor of women who look all the same, emphasizing physical qualities in women and money in men or success, all goes against sex must match love. If sex goes without love, it is not a feminine World. But Women are naturally entitled and assigned by God to power over everyone else! Twisted reality, twisted World, and there we go: women on washing machines and men on presidency. All this just to state clearly that there is no way my 5s were the representation of my amount of learning in that specific subject, they were, rather, a representation of the PARACONSISTENT WORLD we are living at, the WORLD OF GRAHAM PRIEST and several other males: where things are allowed `TO BE AND NOT BE' at the same time. Not only I have proved, myself, that this Logic cannot be seen as a logical system, that is, bears inconsistency in itself, but it is not healthy for the World/society and should be avoided by all means. You may wish to read my paper on it. The World nowadays looks like a Women's World: they are apparently everywhere. However, it is a totally males World: they run the World. `IS AND IS NOT'. Not good. Fake impressions drive wrong deductions in women's heads, most manipulated species. In any possible sense, the exams for the mentioned disciplines, where I got five, bear the following educational absurdities/inconsistencies/moral and ethical illegalities: 1) WERE NOT PROPOSED WITH CLEAR OBJECTIVES 2) WERE NOT PROPOSED UP TO THE DETAIL THAT IS NECESSARY TO GENERATE UNIFORMITY OF RESULTS, ONLY PLACE WHERE JUSTICE IN EVALUATION LIES 3) ALLOWED PERSONAL DECISIONS BY THE LECTURER REGARDING MARKS THAT COULD NOT EVER BE SAID WRONG BY ANYONE ELSE 4) WERE NEVER RETURNED TO THE STUDENTS (LACK OF CLARITY IN MARKING) SO THAT THE OWN STUDENT COULD REVISE THEIR MISTAKES AND LEARN (MAIN INTENTION OF AN EXAM) 5) WERE ASSIGNED TOTALLY UNCLEAR AND NON EXPLAINED MARKS (EVEN IN ORDER TO STUDY FOR AN EXAM, THE STUDENT NEEDS TO BE TOLD ITS OBJECTIVE/WAY IT IS GOING TO BE MARKED) Were there any educational Court that was fair and allowed students to get a fair deal from education, I am sure I would get my marks revised, I would be given a second exam following educational guidelines that are proper, and I would be getting at least 6 in all my subjects cause that is what I have lived for for 30 ys before: learning how to do well in exams and how to learn. I am certainly a teaching/learning specialist of top skills. And have acquired them via own experience, a fair bit of reading and a lot of discussion in good environments/healthy environments/well managed educational environments (even though people from senai/cetiqt I have worked with managed to do even crimes against me later, it was still the best growing environment in teaching I have ever been to, I do praise my coordination back then, one of the main stock holders, and a lot of female touch around in what regards it). Feel 100% secure of whatever I state, and would never fear going to a Court to defend it. Good exams are fair to the student who studies and has got no mental problems. Exams are not made for punishment, they are made for the own student to know how they learn, what they need to improve, and for the own teacher to do the same. Exams are not a measure of the students, are a measure of the teacher. If 80% of a group of normal learners (no mental/physical problems) does badly, it is definitely not the students fault-one could even study their past study lives to confirm. It is the teacher's fault. There is no way a well given class with top educational quality could ever generate those results. I fear that what I have seen in others of my own profession is truly unacceptable and they should be fired just for stating what they did. I have heard things as bad as: they are idiots! I have prepared this class with so much care, care I usually don't have, top care, it was looking so clear, they seemed to have understood it all, but all of them have failed in that question!!! I am sorry to say that that who failed was the own teacher and by saying that to me, a fellow, he is actually stating he is a full load of incompetency who does not even want to improve in his career. Idiot is him! He sounded as if he had prepared a class for himself, was pretty happy with it, and could never admit any failure of what he thought to be wonderful in terms of what refers not to himself, but to another person! Such a person is obviously psychologically problematic and self-referential. Whoever says that should be immediately told to visit the Psychologist, as least. It is outrageously absurd. I sincerely believe, am afraid, to have been a victim of such people in those two 5s. One of them, to be sincere, beard absolutely no fault in his class, God only knows how passionate, how motivating his classes were. But did not know how to evaluate people or was not concerned. Basically, that same lecturer told me it would take my lifetime to write a paper after I convinced him, putting one by one of his oppositions down, during a whole semester, with all logical argumentation in this World, that I did have a new theory. All educationally mistaken. All the same thought I wrote about before. They oppress you until you take it if you don't naturally think you are less. Unacceptable. So the University, who historically never helps or listens to the students, has heard me finally (chancellors are all males as well). Got to fix an outrageously wrong diploma and transcripts writing. In compensation, the marks are going to be there forever. Is this fair? Hell, no! Half a mark may put you in the underworld of Science already in this so competitive World...H1, H2, ...scholarships...accreditation...standing... Unfortunately, however, was it not a fact that Lady Di, our best feminist promise, got killed? Death cannot ever be reverted. The marks still can, if the lecturers involved ever read this web page and listen in writing what they never wanted to listen in sound. University is a place for revision and learning, and I always admired those who could apologize and fix their mistakes cause there is nothing worse than a lecturer who cannot learn, or sadder. Life is not only about written knowledge. Nobody can be told to be a Dr with only written knowledge in my opinion. Knowledge is about Emotional Intelligence too, as the Americans say. Learning has to bear a broad sense. And nobody can be an educator if they do not know how to listen and learn, improve and revise. Nobody bothers? Give me the Chancellery and I will show you how they will think about it better! Life might not be about power, but wisdom can only be spread around via power. Next elections, for whatever it is, remember. Next opportunity to hang crap on someone, remember. Next opportunity to raise someone with your words and compliments, remember. Remember: 1) You, yourself, are a woman. 2) If you are a feminine woman: likes respect and love as main things in this World, please respect first. By empowering every woman around with your cordiality and respect, you are also empowered because that is the class to which you yourself belong. When you think of that, think how you can only be heard via an union of students, of professionals. Women is a class just like those. Respect those from your class, have true life ethics with them, and you will never lose. 3) You might not be able to do all in this World, but you certainly are able to do far more than men. If any oppresses you in a class, don't take it. If life is short of males and you feel tempted to disrespect the union so hardly achieved by other women, please create prostitution places to hire males, prefer that to betray your fellow female worker in life. Prefer masturbation, prefer lesbianism even, than betraying your own class with unethical behavior. For God's sake, you are a woman. Do not do to others what you really would not like to be done to yourself. Defend your own class of genders as you would defend your class of professionals and there is no way we will lose. Trust me, that is all men have done. At the beginning of human history, they were powerless. Women had it all. They changed the Bible, they twisted the history books with centuries of dictatorship and oppression via power and force. United, they have erased any memory of this World being a feminine World. Can you tell? Hell, no! Why? Because they are always together even though nothing is said literally. Trust me, nobody can win on their own. Be together and still apart, that is the true secret of life. Respect and bow silently. Put forces together even being in the furthest point. Any woman on top is better than none. That is what it is. Reality.