very interesting article in jezabelle Louis about a Smith College student
Smith College of course the all-women school
in north hampton massachusetts where the show was previously based my mom teaches
at Smith College Louis you and I have been to many
Smith College events and parties throughout our time living in north
hampton massachusetts we know a lot of Smith students
Smith College has a student a heterosexual student
who is hoping to form an exclusive straight
girl sorority she wrote a letter
to this is a letter that was posted by a
lesbian student at Smith saying I receive this from this
heterosexual students saying hey this is so-and-so I'm sending a message to girls
I think might be interested in this idea
I think it might be great to have a
sorority it Smith which would basically be an exclusive club for straight girls
a little
run group we would have sorority mixer is with Amherst College men weekly
dinner dates
photo shoots where we would dress up nice baking nights et cetera
I got this idea because personally as a straight girl it's Matt I feel
marginalized and I feel like the minority
and I think this would be a great way to socialize with people
we identify more with at Smith and to meet more
guys so Lewis this to me is fascinating not only because were intimately
familiar with this college in like I said we we know so many people including
my mom who teach their
but um many people will say there's nothing wrong with this
if you can have a gay group you can have a straight grouping that should be okay
if you can have a minority student union
having a white student union like some kid wanted somewhere in
into a Maryland at a maryland college that should also be okay
but I think that oftentimes those kinda absolutist
argument if you can have a then by definition be is OK
I don't think those tapes have arguments really serve us well because what we
have to explore as
if you're creating a group on the basis
%uh exclusion others rather then
inclusion for those who are marginalized
that to me is a red flag now this student is saying
if feels like we're the minority even if we actually
art by being straight girls the
the other issue that's involved here is whether the group that is seeking to
organize
is traditionally not in a position of power
and the idea that Louis northampton massachusetts western Massachusetts we
know this area
the idea that being heterosexual at Smith College
you are in any way at a disadvantage or
actually marginalized beyond just feeling like there's a lotta lesbians
around you don't care about guys
does not strike me as honest it does seem a little strange you must just add
for those who might not know that Smith College is an all girl school
I that does have a lotta up from
homosexual girls yeah I mean north canton is considered by some to be
one of the lesbian capitals of the country and it's it's widely known that
there is a
there's a significant lesbian population at Smith College no question about it
I can understand a girls they're wanting to do something like this
the I'm not sure what percentage above the girls are lesbians one arent I know
I i feel like it's possible that they could be the minority especially as time
goes on in
and more people find out that Smith Colleges kinda that said its Haven
for for lesbians but it doesn't work me the same way that that
bike white student union did I'm
but at the same time that white student union I believe
they were not actually I'm minority they were not a minority and
and straight girls are also not a minority at Smith College but here's the
issue
what does the what do the heterosexual girls need to organize for you need to
create a sorority
that literally exclude the lesbians just to meet Manders men all over the place
there's countless universities and colleges in that area
I want to see the University of Massachusetts as 30,000 students there
slightly under half of which your mail the idea that you need to create this
group
at the exclusion love lesbians in order to feel
not marginalized is just isn't patently not
honest to me but I open it up to the audience what do you think about this
is this similar or different to the white student union that lewis mentioned
were white students worse were definitively not the minority I think it
was at Towson University
send me your thoughts I'm very interested in this let's take a break
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