You ever wonder how messed up the world is? Well here's one thing that I've always found just a little cooky.
When did it become Kosher to hate math. I mean, not just acceptable, but downright laudable. Whenever I tell people I'm a math major I get two different, yet predictable responses.
The first I don't mind to much. You tell a person "Oh I'm a Math Major", and they quickly reply (without much assessment on your cognitive skills, might I add) "oh, you must be so smart!". I never know what to say to that. I mean "thank you?" I guess. I mean, people don't come up to me and say "Oh I'm a business major" and I say "Oh, you must be rich!". See what I mean? It makes no rational sense what so ever. It would be like "Oh, you're a religeon major? You must be an awesome future husband!" On second thought, I'm changing my major.
But back now to the second reaction I get. "Oh your a math major?" ::shuddering and/or gagging:: "I HATE MATH!". Really? Lets start with: Rude? I mean, I literally just just finished telling you that I devoted my college life to the study of logic and quantities, and you can think of nothing more but to disparage it? I don't go around dissing other majors. Oh your an art major, ugh I hate drawing. Oh your a computer science major? Oh jeez, do I despise computers. Hey, you're an english major? Let me tell you how I loathe to speak fluently in the english language.
The fact is, somehow without us knowing it, we developed a culture where it was politically correct to belittle math majors. Lets be honest, we're like the Jewish people of academic studies: everyone is always persecuting us, but they know that they can't make any money without us.
I agree totally bro. and While we are fighting the hate and ignorance, we should raise awareness for the prejudice against Sports Science majors. Just because I'm Exercise and Sport Science major doesn't mean I have an amazing body or am I incredibly athletic. It makes life really tough when people always assume that of you.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason this is such a big deal is because math is a ridiculous major. Why would anyone force you to study something that is so useless? The easiest way to stop people from hating math majors: don't make me study it.
ReplyDeleteYou know who are really mistreated in this world? History majors. Everyone's always talking about how all you study are things that happened a long time ago. Everyone teases you for caring about dead people. Life as a history major is tough. But hopefully once I graduate, all of this will be in the past.
ReplyDeleteYou are right. If you are good at Math, people say you are smart. But if you are good at other things such as language, sport etc., they won't say you are smart. We think that someone who is good at math can or must be good at other subjects, too. I don't think so. I wasn't so good at Math when i was a child. I was an average. But I was good at other subjects.
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