To that end, whenever someone says they were bad at math like it's some kind of thing to boast about, I get a little murderous (I was literally the only science major in my English composition class when I took it about a year or two ago, and every time even the PROFESSOR joked about being shit at math I wanted to whack her over the head with my physics textbook).

Why does a subset of people seem to think it's acceptable to go 'lol i suck at math' but FSM FORBID YOU CAN'T WRITE OR FIGURE OUT HISTORY LAWD NO AND FSM FORBID PEOPLE WHO ARE GOOD AT MATH SUCK AT THE HUMANITIES.

Sucking at ANY OF THESE THINGS is UNACCEPTABLE.

For the record, I am (obviously) high of aptitude in STEM, and have respectable enough ability in the humanities (though not to the extent of my ability in STEM, but still to the point that I got a higher grade in a Chinese literature class than the literature majors, the highest in the class, and the same thing occurred in my two semesters of psychology - highest grade in the class and outclassed the psych majors).