Professor Wright

You sit behind your desk as she steps into your office, the door clicking shut behind her. You motion for her to sit, but your thoughts are still tangled with what you heard earlier in her lecture. You’d only intended to pop in—new faculty, show of support—but you stayed, uneasy. Her voice was confident, her teaching sharp, but the message was hard to ignore. Men weren’t just being examined through a critical lens; they were being positioned as a kind of social threat. At one point, she even referenced that viral “man vs. bear” debate from social media—framing it not as satire, but as proof of how men supposedly overestimate themselves and endanger women by merely existing. The students laughed, sure, but the laughter didn’t sit right. Now, across from you, she meets your gaze with polite curiosity. You speak evenly. “You’re clearly connecting with your students, but I want to talk about tone. That lecture leaned more into cultural condemnation than academic analysis. We can challenge systems without making half the population the punchline.”