Maths teacher giving nicknames

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to two girls for a mock interview at a bank - one was Mae West and the other Racquel Welch. One girl blonde, the one brunette girl each 15 yrs old. Is it just me or are they weird names to choose?

If the girls had big boobs, I guess I might see it as inappropriate, as though he was comparing them to these sex symbols. If not, it could well just be that he chose the names of a famous blonde woman and a famous brunette woman.

And it makes me a bit sad that Mae West is being remembered for having big boobs; she was actually a pretty remarkable woman.

1992? Wow!

How can you still remember? And why were you doing interviews in a maths lesson?

1992?

Unless he told them to walk with a wiggle and pout a bit and push their boobs out....no I don't see anything wrong with it...they are just names.

This is really NOT an issue. At all. Spare yourself the effort of worrying about it.

I envy you your lack of things to worry about!

1992

My second year junior school teacher (year 4 in modern money) called me and my friend Penelope Pitstop and Fanny Craddock.

Penny & Fanny.

He was struck off about a decade after we left school - no hard reasons, just general inappropriateness around young girls a la Penny and Fanny.

Ok, I know you all call lady parts "fannies," so I get that, but what's inappropriate about Penny?

My PE teacher shouted in year 8 rounder to be careful on second base as I'd have someone's eye out. I bought a sports bra as a result (well got my mum to).

My maths teacher called me a floozy and threw some chalk at me when I was about 14.
I was sat next to my friend Nick and we were whispering and not paying attention as usual.
He suddenly lobs the chalk and shouts "Nick! Will you and your young floozy pay attention!"
This was in 1994. Maybe I should start an AIBU.

Another one here puzzling over the inappropriateness of Penny.

And wondering why the OP is starting a thread now when surely, if she feels it's an issue, she should have started in 1992.

I think Mae West would have taken great exception to being called a sex symbol. Yes she could be suggestive, but that was her sense of humour. She was a very strong, funny and clever woman who wrote and produced most of her films. I think she was great.

I'm struggling to find an issue with this but as with anything it depends on the context and the relationship you had generally with the teacher.

If he'd called you Sam Fox and Linda Lusardi it would have been very different.

It does make me wonder about the term 'sex symbol' though. On Wiki Mae West is described as an actress, singer, playwright and 'sex symbol'. That's not a fucking job

I think Yabu. They were actresses.

Let's all spend the rest of our lifes finding sick and twisted hidden meanings to everything

I think that sometimes people can reflect back on something and suddenly perceive a different interpretation of events with hindsight. OP doesn't say she's dwelling on it. She may have just thought about it and wondered if she'd missed something when she was at school which, as an adult, she's more aware of now.

Penny is a fairly popular synonym for vagina around here, at least when talking to children - 'Cauliflower, sit properly, you're showing everyone your penny!'

Disrespectful and inappropriate.

I don't get this? It would have been a citizenship style class where we used to have to have a day of mock interviews and health and safety in prep for work experience.
I am sad that two great actresses are being remembered for their boobs and not their talent. Would you define Rebel Wilson by just her weight or Jennifer Lawrence by how many young men like to wank over her?
The OP must be deeper than this surely?

Yes definitely both known for having big boobs. I am old enough to remember when Raquel Welch was the person in any joke where the woman was supposed to have large/nice breasts. In the 1908s she was replaced by Samantha Fox etc in that kind of joke. A "Mae West" was the nickname for the life-jacket spitfire pilots wore during the war, as it looked like a large bust.

1992. 19 fucking 92.

Why, in the name of all that is holy, are you bringing this up now?

In the OP's defence, it can be unsettling when you realise you were maybe more vulnerable than you thought when you were young. I once got invited to go back to a man's house - for a teddy bear's picnic. I was sensible enough to say no. He was convicted of many sex crimes about 20 years later. Many of my peers testified. I had no idea at the time. It was... unsettling. And those of you saying that there's nothing wrong with being called Mae West and Raquel Welch - are you being deliberately obtuse? They are both known primarily as sex symbols - we can debate the rights and wrongs of that until the cows come home, but I find it unlikely that he was complimenting the blonde on her fine and nuanced acting skills, reminiscent of Mae's outstanding turn in 'Sextette'... I wouldn't be losing sleep, but I would be a little unsettled - OP, I don't believe you are being unreasonable. It's off.

No idea what this is about really.

I am sure Mae West was in her 80s when she died- she didn't die young because she refused a blood transfusion.

Penny?

Bizarre thread.