This past summer, I visited rateyourprofessor.com for the first time. I searched for a professor I had last semester who I can't believe is even allowed to be a teacher. It turned out that 95% of his comments were negative--and there were more comments on him than I'd seen from the handful of the other teachers I looked up. I began to wonder if he, or any other teachers, ever go to this website and see how they are being rated. It made me wonder how the comments would make them feel. Would they be able to push past it and not let it bother them? or would they be impacted by it?
Then, some weeks later, I was wandering around Netflix and found the movie Stricken because I was curious to see if my teacher's movie made it on there. I read the feedback from several viewers and most of the comments were negative. It made me wonder if Paul Chilsen had been impacted by the negative comments he'd recieved by others who had viewed this movie. In person he seems like a cool, professional strong-minded person, but it still made me wonder if it could have effected him in any way.
I then had a long conversation with my Uncle Gary last Tuesday about critics. We switched from topic to topic, covering about 20 within three hours. Boy, that time went by so quickly. We ended up covering the topic on how critics impact directors, actors and actresses. We wondered if they would be able to brush off anything negative said about them or not? He told me to watch the movie Heckler. I haven't done so yet.
I just thought it was interesting how at three different times throughout the summer I have been wondering about the effects of criticism.
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