[quote]9th grade high school, free time after a final. This teacher was pretty cool, hip, into video games, tv shows, and basketball. Teacher: "If there was one thing you can remove from the world, what would it be?" Fellow girl: "video games." Of course my jaw hits the desk but I'm open to opinions, so I wait for her reasons. Teacher: "Okay. Tell us why." Girl: "Because it's for boys and I don't like them. And if there's girls here who like video games, then you're a sad low life that clearly needs to be with other girls." It was at this time that I raised my hand to the teacher and upon permission to speak I said this: "My I please be excused from my gender forever? I should be free to do what I want, when I want, where I want. It's young women like her that down right embarrass me as a female." Girl: "[i]I[/i] embarrass [i]you[/i]? Rather you embarrass me." I laugh and say: "Oh, I'm so sorry mom. But I'll keep playing video games."[/quote]