AHHHHHH!

Last week in archaeology we watched a film about an underwater excavation seeking to find pieces of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Involved in the dive was an archaeologist who had worked at the site 30 years earlier- in her 3o’s. She was absolutely brilliant, widely respected, fluent in at least 3 languages and still an active diver. At one point in the film she is in her wetsuit, which she has rolled down over her torso under the hot Egyptian sun, exposing a sports bra and a couple inches of stomach skin.

From the other side of the room floats a sarcastic male voice, “Wow, that’s hot.”

I apologize, but from here on out is where I will become so angry as to be completely inarticulate.

Are you fucking kidding me? Is she a model? A pornstar? No? Then being sexy is not part of her job description. She is 75 years old and a respected academic; she has no obligation to be attractive to you. Would you have it that any women who didn’t make you instantly pop a boner be locked up somewhere out of the light of day? Who the fuck are you to demand that every female in your line of site be up to your standards? Some snot-nosed freshman without any field experience at all? You’d be lucky if she sneezed on you. You are less than dirt.

And so ends my angry ranting for the day. Keep in mind that this is the edited version of my thoughts. At the time of occurrence I just replied, loudly, “Why the fuck does she owe you ‘hot’?”

Asswipe.