People who
thrive on being attacked because of their
beliefs and/or the
logic behind those beliefs. For example, my
Ancient Greece professor who spent 40 minutes out of the 50-minute class period expounding his views on why
single mothers are the downfall of Western civilization,
as many men are physically abused as women, and
there is no such thing as rape--and then would
brag about the number of
students who
walked out of class each
semester, and how many negative
evaluations he receives every year. Some (certainly not all)
radical environmentalists, very
out GLBT,
Wiccans,
right-wing Christians and others seem to fall into this group; they
glory in their
self-inflicted martyrdom.
By the way, in case you think all
universities are
havens of liberalism, the above professor just received
tenure. And yes, I know I said I was going to bed.
:p