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by mattzito 1242 days ago
They might be! Which makes it even more of a shame that they used an app whose intent was to help students audit classes where they have a gender ratio opportunity.

If this person sent an email to the class group offering their services and coached folks without seeing their gender or appearance, I would applaud them, and I’d be more than happy to support whoever they met through that.

But my guess is, that’s not the situation here. Would love to be wrong.

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The crux of the issue is if the behavior of these students harms the learning environment in any other way. For example, raising their hand to answer a question every opportunity they get meaning fewer of the typical students get to answer and learn from [their] mistakes, or running these private tutoring sessions then giving up if no attractive women show up / giving the women they're interested in way more attention. It's also not a good look if they're bad at teaching and use the tutoring session to effectively do peoples' homework for them by solving every questions on a whiteboard with little room for discussion.