Catherine Jenkins alerted me to a recent article about biases female sessional instructors encounter in teaching evaluations. Because Ryerson allows instructors to keep the written comments to themselves, we don’t have to reveal the sometimes embarrassing remarks to the department. In my advancing age I haven’t received personal comments about my appearance for awhile, though I often get complaints like “I don’t get her, [sic] she seems nice, but then she is really picky about your writing.” My schoolmarm thought is that I wouldn’t have been “nice” if I hadn’t been picky about their writing.