>How do we make math less oppressive and more inclusive?
Turn on verbose mode. Some people think math looks better with verbose mode turned off, but I am certainly not one of those people. You deliberately toggle verbose mode from Y to N, that makes math inaccessible to a lot of people who could have understood it perfectly well in verbose mode. I don't know why they do this, but it reminds me of this undergrad instructor I was a grader for in grad school. He was such an asshole, Eric Murray, he really relished being an asshole. Whenever a physics student would ask him about A, he would respond, "Well... what about B?" If the student could explain B, then he would say, "Well what about C?" Invariably, he would stump the student at some point in the alphabet, and then he would say, "Well! If you don't even know about M, then no wonder you don't know about A! Maybe try reading the textbook instead of wasting my time when you're clearly not studying." He was such an asshole. He's the kind of guy who deliberately turns off verbose mode in a textbook.
