Waay back when I was just beginning college, I took English Comp 1 in summer night classes. The professor was a curmudgeon nearing the end of his teaching career; each session he would do five minutes or so exposing the supposed foibles of this ethnic group, that religious group or a political party or movement. The young woman beside me chuckled and laughed as loud as anyone in class...until he did his schtick on her particular group. She left at the break, never to return to class. I guess she could only laugh at others' groups.

I haven't thought about Mr. Fisher and that English class for 50 years until these last few days of reading posts at this thread. Most of you are that girl.