gender cup of tea

I've had a fairly frustrating set of meetings with my course director/supervisor so far.

The first one obviously started off on the wrong foot. He started off by saying "I think it's important to state that I do believe in institutionalized racism and sexism." He then went on to say that he thought looking at financial results/economics to analyze whether women were positively impacting the economy was, I quote, "hilarious". Yeah, him and I don't quite get along.

I can understand that as an old British nuclear physicist, gender studies may not be someone's cup of tea. But I was only asking for decency.

Anyhow, second meeting was along the same tone, but I was much more prepared for it, put on my show and got what I needed out of it, which was his recommendation to go find a better suited supervisor (phew!) and a name of someone to contact.

free as a bird...