In my experience, yes. 2:1 in most classes. The women often tell me they are wary and don’t want to get caught cheating. The men don’t seem to think it’s cheating at all (*side whisper*: it is).
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Again, just my experience: every student who I’ve discovered (or who was suspected of) using it has been a cisgender male. I teach first-year comp.
apr 7, 2025, 1:32 pm • 6 0 • view
What’s especially fascinating to me about this is that so-called “academic” writing, which is the kind of writing most often privileged in FYC, is highly patriarchal & masculine. *runs to change doctoral research question*
apr 7, 2025, 1:36 pm • 9 0 • view
Men used to cheat by using us to copy off of or stick us with doing group assignments by not even showing up, so this tracks…
apr 7, 2025, 3:12 pm • 7 0 • view
The men. Somehow it feels much harder for me to bestow that honorific on young people. I’ve long gotten used to not calling college-aged female people “girls,” (for obvious reasons) but these male people you describe seem to be growing younger with age.
apr 7, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
This. Also, the girls ask if they “may” use it. Certain boys just do.
apr 5, 2025, 11:33 am • 6 0 • view
Last semester I took a coding class in a business school, and the instructor seemed surprised that my (all-women) group didn't want to use it for group projects. We all agreed that we might use it later, but we wanted to learn to code without it first, so we understood what we were doing.
apr 7, 2025, 1:38 pm • 10 0 • view
Love this!
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