If it wasn’t already abundantly clear that what those complaining about DEI and affirmative action want not a “meritocracy” (a term first invented as satire), but a return to those “good old days” (as if they were ever really over), the saga of one Samantha Fulnecky ought to make it so.

Fulnecky is a psychology major in her junior year at Oklahoma University who recently managed to get her psychology professor ousted for giving her a bad grade on a terrible and poorly written paper that did not complete the objectives of the assignment, simply because that terrible and poorly written paper that did not complete the objectives of the assignment. The failing grade, she claims, was “religious discrimination” against her because she is a Christian and therefore should be given a pass on writing a terrible and poorly written paper that did not complete the objectives of the assignment.

The assignment was to write a 650-word essay on an article they read in class about a study involving gender roles and stereotypes. Students were given a number of options in how to respond, not one of which Fulnecky chose to go with.

A discussion of why you feel the topic is important and worthy of study (or not)

An application of the study or results to your own experiences

An application of the study or results to observations about other behaviors

Linking the objectives or findings from the assigned article to other domains of development or other findings that we read about or discuss in class

A suggestion for further studies or experiments that might help researchers better understand the topic being studied

Alternate interpretations of the researchers’ findings

A discussion of how development in this domain might proceed differently at other developmental stages

Your own thoughts about how development proceeds in the domain being researched in the article

Rather, she wrote her essay on how she believes God made men and women to have specific gender roles and therefore gender roles are good and right and should be adhered to.

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By the way, Oklahoma University has put the instructor who failed poor Samantha Fulnecky on leave. Did we mention the instructor is trans?

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