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E-PrinceWe all should be a little concerned that there are no female eating club presidents and that no female students ran for freshman class president this year. Having a lack of women in these positions of power doesn’t match ...
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Stop. Talking. About. This
Sorry, but this column captures the entitlement of Princeton. When I was a senior, some women on my floor (who I knew!) would routinely use the men's bathroom and even have sex in the showers. Sorry, it's not my obligation to encourage women any more than men; and it's not the obligation of outgoing USG presidents to be more considerate of women; it's not the obligation of men to "stop invading women's space" by interrupting them--God knows how many times I have been interrupted--these rules are either for both genders or for none of them. Sorry, but I'm not going to treat women like little children who can't take care of themselves. If they can't, they shouldn't be at Princeton.
Molly, following your own logic, you should have run for one of the male-dominated offices you mention. If you're able to, why didn't you? Also, why do most of your solutions involve men helping women? More importantly, do you think that the choice of most Princeton women NOT to run for USG/eating club offices is a valid choice? If you respect womens' rights, you'll respect their extracurricular decisions, whether or not they end up following trends you approve of. And I think most women who WOULD run for such an office are not so insecure that they would do so for the phony purpose of empowerment. Rather, they would run for, say, the USG because they thought they were cut out for the work, and might be effective. But there's no greater nightmare than working under a leader who is more impressed with herself than with the gravity of her responsibility. Cut the empowerment cliches. Another thing: If men and women are equal in value and if it's wrong for a man to want a job just because he is male, it's also wrong for a woman to want a job simply because she's female. Yes, equality has its price and you can't have it both ways. One last thing. Simple equality does not equal justice, and equality of FUNCTION does not mean equality of VALUE. Women and men can prefer different kinds of work without one sex having greater personal value than the other. Are women really only as valuable as the tasks they perform?
I'll second p08 on the bathroom complaint and the plea to *stop* *blaming* *men.* If you hate men, just come out and say it. I know a lot of guys in my hallway who would have appreciated a little more respect for their own "symbolic space" in the men's room which was so often invaded by neighborhood girls too lazy to walk up a flight of stairs.
The entitled tone of this article is unreal. Is this a real person writing or an amalgam of every negative Princeton stereotype?
I agree with p08's comments about not treating women as little children- which is what the author seemed to want. I am a woman and I found the tone of this article incredibly condescending. And why so much talk about pizza? Saying "great job" whenever someone does anything is going to make them feel more self conscious. Or annoy them hugely.
Just when we thought the commentary on this (non-)issue couldn't get any more inane. . .
Writing screed after screed does not make this specious oppression narrative any more convincing.
this topic deserves discussion, but amelia and brenda's column the other day gave it so much more justice.
I'm be pretty insulted by this article. You're basically implying that we should be treated as like these frail creatures whose feelings are scarred easier than the back of an iPod. How is this progress? Sounds kind of Victorian to me.
What are we, 12 years old and entering the throes of puberty? Are you seriously telling boys to pat us on the back when we eat two slices of pizza? Not to interrupt us when we speak because we're going to be intimidated? We ought to be stronger than that. And even if some girls aren't, coddling us in these condescending paternalistic ways isn't going to help.
ANOTHER "WHERE'S ALL THE WOMEN" ARTICLE?
GIVE ME A ******* BREAK.
IT MUST BE THAT OUR MALE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT ENCOURAGES DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN.