Five months later, and we’re finally getting the other side of the Samantha Fulnecky test-grading controversy that turned the OU student into an overnight right-wing social media influencer.
Remember that one?
Fulnecky – a young, nubile conservative college student raised by ultra-right-wing, somewhat whacko activist parents – mailed in an essay question about gender for a psychology class and, instead of actually doing the assignment, turned in a hastily assembled manifesto that labeled transgender people as “demonic” and confidently declared there are only two genders because, apparently, God said so.
Naturally, the graduate assistant grading the test – Mel Curth – happened to be transgender and gave Fulnecky an F, setting off a completely predictable media firestorm that ended with Fulnecky becoming a right-wing FOLK hero and Curth, rightfully or wrongfully – depending on your political persuasion – finding herself out of a job.
While Fulnecky was overly eager to ride the publicity waves of controversy, speaking on any camera, stage, or morning show couch that would have her, Curth took a more Homer Simpson approach and slowly backed into the bushes, effectively going into hiding as her life and career were turned upside down.