Today I was in Ethics and Engineering class, and the professor opened up the class with a joke about how engineering majors are sad on Valentine’s day, since that’s what today is. However, I was thinking to myself “>:3 heeheehee, I got asked to go on a date two days ago.” We were talking about knives in the class, and the professor was trying to get us to understand the purpose of a knife in terms of artifacts, tékhnē (τέχνη), érgon (ἔργον) and virtue (aretḗ, ἀρετή), per Plato’s Republic (336–354). It’s quite the interesting topic! In any case, he was trying to get us away from saying “excellent cutters cut well, and produce well-cut products” when trying to describe a knife, because he wanted us to come to “excellent knives knife well, and produce well-knifed products.” Or, something? I was a little lost at that point.
But, others in the class were also lost—we kept trying to come up with different definitions for knives that never quite satisfied him. The class started laughing about the professor “not liking the word cutting” as per one student, the the professor reiterated what he was saying, saying that a knife is not exactly a cutter and has a different érgon than a knife (in my own words). Then, as I am wont to do, I wanted to elaborate on how a cutter doesn’t necessarily mean a knife, as scissors are also cutters, and I spoke up and said “Well, you can use scissors for cutting!” and made a scissoring motion with my hands.
Yet, I made the lesbian scissoring motion. Before I realize what I had done, the whole class was laughing, and I was so embarrassed. The professor even made a comment about “I know it's Valentine's day so that must be on your mind.” It was all very silly.
Because yes I WAS thinking about scissoring a little ;-;
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