American Christianity and the romanticization of suffering

American Christianity and the romanticization of suffering

Last November, University of Oklahoma student Samantha Fulnecky filed a complaint against graduate instructor Mel Curth, who had given Fulnecky a failing grade on an essay. The essay in question, which was meant to be a reaction to an article about gender norms, was less of an academic paper and more of a biblically-inspired rant on how gender norms and assigned genders at birth are natural, God-created and should be followed.   Despite Curth st…