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...venture deep into the depths of the basement of Lamont, tiptoe quietly to into the women's bathroom, and slide your way into the first stall on your left, you will find yourself in the midst of an intense debate, worthy of the most alert discussion sections...
...These passionate voices fall on deaf ears. They do not resonate in the public forum of Women's issues at Harvard but have been subjugated to one of the only places women feel they have entirely to themselves--the paint chipped walls of a lone bathroom stall. In a school where discussion of gender issues has been ignored, where women are only guests of finals clubs and not members, where equally talented women silently watch an all-male cast perform the most professional show on campus--these bathroom dialogues should come as no surprise...
...went down there one night when I could no longer concentrate on my reading--I felt like I was practically going insane," said a sophomore graffiti writer who wishes to remain anonymous for this article. "I needed to be alone, and the only place I could go was the bathroom, and by fate, I somehow ended up in that wonderful stall. What amazes me so much is the raw honestly of the writings. It's a place where things are understood, where you can express those things you only think when the Harvard world goes away for a moment...
...nakedly honest prose, a black, loopy hand shares a moment of pain with the bathroom going community...
...because of the uniquely interactive tone of the bathroom dialogues that women find these scrawlings so attractive. For many, conversations between magenta and black ballpoint writings on the bathroom wall fill a void that pervades their daily existence. As one writer who described herself as a "high school girl" wrote aptly, "Thank you so much for this wall, it's nice to know that in a world that often makes me feel secluded, there are people out there I can talk...