I Dare You to Drink the Vinegar

The experience of exam writing is something I became quite familiar with over the course of my psychology, sociology, and nursing degrees. When I was doing my first two undergrad degrees in sociology and psychology more than a decade ago one of my favorite evaluation tools was the multiple-choice exam. In that time period at the University of Calgary, all first, second (and often third-year) sociology and psychology classes were so large that the primary evaluation method was multiple-choice testing. I was very familiar with them, I wrote a lot of them, I was good at them in the sense that I frequently got most answers correct.  Mastery or False Confidence?  I mastered writing multiple-choice exams as a necessity when I was a second-year student trying to get into the competitive faculty of psychology because demand was so high and it was so competitive. The mastery increased in my third year because class sizes were so large and multiple-choice exams were the go-to evaluation tool. Me

"It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active (Valenti, 2009)." I am far beyond the point of remaining silent when I hear someone else's prejudiced opinion, especially when it is in front of someone who is impressionable to these distorted and stigmatizing attitudes, especially a young woman who, through this type of talk is learning about how to feel shameful for decisions that may differ from traditional, outdated and violent notions of what it means to be a woman, and consequently how to shame other women because of this. And, as a woman who believes in social justice for women, I will always choose that hill to die on because that is how important the issue is to me. I very much understand that I cannot change another person's beliefs, but I can certainly share my own. I very much believe that I can help to inform others, challenge traditional gende