It's a WOMAN'S World

Two entries on ONE NIGHT?! This is obviously a planned deviation from completing my inorganic problem set. I did not have the intention of boring you with my long-winded discussions in my previous entry. Now back to my INITIAL topic I wanted to discuss.

A few days back, I had lunch with a group of people during MF. It was a table of 6, 2 women including me and 4 men. The other woman and I were both from women's liberal arts colleges specifically Seven Sisters Colleges. One particular egotistical gentleman asked the other woman which college she was currently studying at and she answered: "Wellesley College". The gentleman enthusiastically asked: "So how is the lesbian life there?"

Now you can only imagine how I must have felt having been in educated in a women's college for almost 2 years now. I may have been slightly and I would like to emphasize SLIGHTLY over reacting to such a stereotypical question. I clearly do not see the relationship between being educated in a single sex college and having a lesbian life. So here is the topic at hand, why is it that when it comes to a huge group of women in a community having an enriching academic life, people or particularly some men immediately think of lesbians?

If we had the same situation but instead single sex male colleges, would the very next thing a woman asks a man be:"So how's the gay life there?" I may seem slightly biased but I do not necessarily mean to point fingers at genders over this issue. We come back to the whole IGNORANT idea.

So to all those who think empowering women being educated in a woman's college is a life of lesbian orgies everyday, I think you should kick yourselves. You may not understand what we experience being in a single sex environment and I do not expect everyone to have a complete understanding. However, I hope that this sexual connotation to women's college would one day be diminished from your minds and you would see the other more important aspects and privileges we have being in a single sex community.

In my opinion, a single sex community is a place where every woman has the utmost freedom to be who they truly are and to grow or develop into their true being without the fear of being judged, discriminated or being an outcast. We as a community tend to understand rather than passing quick judgments and segregating different from normal or popular from unpopular. It is in a single sex community where being different is normal and acceptable. We do not learn by excluding people we find socially unacceptable either among your peers or college community.

I will leave on a quick note that I hope the next time you come across anything related to a single sex college, that you would stop and take the time to realize that it is not at all about the lesbians and NEVER has it been about that.

I finally completed my 1026 piece puzzle of Mona Lisa. Isn't she B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L?

I have known many graduates of Bryn Mawr. They are all of the same mold. They have all accepted the same bright challenge: something is lost that has not been found, something's at stake that has not been won, something is started that has not been finished, something is dimly felt that has not been fully realized. They carry the distinguishing mark – the mark that separates them from other educated and superior women: the incredible vigor, the subtlety of mind, the warmth of spirit, the aspiration, the fidelity to past and to present. As they grow in years, they grow in light. As their minds and hearts expand, their deeds become more formidable, their connections more significant, their husbands more startled and delighted. I once held a live hummingbird in my hand. I once married a Bryn Mawr girl. To a large extent they are twin experiences. Sometimes I feel as though I were a diver who had ventured a little beyond the limits of safe travel under the sea and had entered the strange zone where one is said to enjoy the rapture of the deep.- EB White