“Miss, you got a boyfriend?”
“Nope. Do you?”
An exchange between myself and one of my Year Ten boys. I know I’m supposed to rise above it in detachment, or play The Offended Woman and sermonise about appropriate student-teacher relations, or whatever, but sometimes it’s just easier to reply with a snappy retort and then get on with it. And if you can make their friends laugh at them, so much the better.
(I do feel bad that the remark probably unintentionally reinforced homophobia though. But I figure my regular lectures on the importance of tolerance makes up for it).
