Tearfree takes on Ratemyprofessors.com: the latest twist

Various uppity internet personalities, includingElizabeth, a radical lesbian feminist fencer from BC, and a XRLQ, a blogger from south of the border whose name would make a great Scrabble triple word score, are upset with Tearfree for respectively 1) silencing students’ voices and 2) not respecting the ratemyprofessors.com rules and heirarchy.

Inspired, at least partly, by these invalid criticisms, Tearfree is continuing her ongoing campaign to prove how ridiculous ratemyprofessors.com truly is by setting up an RMP page under the name of her pseudonym, Deirdre Dashwood. Tearfree has given the sizzlingly hot Deirdre a PhD in Quantum physics and a tenure-track position at Harvard teaching Women’s Studies. Her specialty is women in science in a post-Sokal, post-colonial laboratory environment. The first “student” to rate her not only gave her a chili pepper but noted that she made Jack Bauer look like a pussy.

Tearfree is asking faithful RTK readers (and even the non- faithful ones) to stop by RMP and give Deirdre a chili and some moral support. (All you have to do is click on the red box that says Rate This Professor.) Tearfree would like to see Deirdre top the Ratemyprofessors.com Hottest 50 Profs list, for which she needs 150 chili peppers. If she achieves this, she will unseat the unsung Canadian, Steve Joordens of University of Toronto at Scarborough, who, according to Tearfree’s daughter, has a kind of Napoleon Dynamite thing going on.

So , c’mon everyone, let’s make Deirdre ratemyprofessors.com’s hottest professor by the end of the week! And in the mean time, Tearfree will try to get an exclusive interview with Steve Joordens about how he got to where he is and what he thinks of the RTK challenge.

Update: Deirdre's listing has been removed from RMP.com within less than half a day, meaning that Tearfree is going to have to come up with an alternate strategy.

Amusingly enough before Deirdre was booted off RMP.com, her first rating which read "makes Jack Bauer look like a pussy" was changed to the politically correct yet incomprehensible "makes Jack Bauer look like a *****."