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...members said their decision was independent of the movement started last week by Women Appealing for Change, a group of undergraduate women who are circulating petitions for a "friendly" boycott of final clubs...
...once again the members of RUS have taken it upon themselves to speak for all undergraduate women without making the slightest effort (such as a survey or a special meeting devoted to the issue) to solicit our opinions. "We support the boycott...because it is an opportunity to bring campus women together." I'm sure the image of proud young women banding together to win the right to exclude each other from wealthy social clubs would warm Gloria Steinem's heart. I don't know about you, but that's not my idea of sisterhood, baby...
...when we read the demands of Women Appealing for Change, a group organizing a boycott of the clubs, we were disappointed. While the group presses the final club to reverse its policy of gender discrimination, it ignores the inherent elitism of the system its members seek to join...
This particular boycott of final clubs isn't, as some believe, the first step to eliminating the clubs completely. Because its supporters don't see anything wrong with the clubs' inherent elitism. Once they achieve their goal, it's unlikely that they'll push any further. Those who are left fighting classism will face a much tougher battle. If the boycott achieves its goals, privileged women will join privileged men as systematized elitists--a dubious achievement...
...staff makes stereotypical assumptions about both the clubs and the women involved in the boycott. The club members are "rich, prep-schooled and well-connected," the clubs represent "oppression" because the clubs "exist so that their members don't have to deal with people unlike themselves," and the women pushing for reform want only "their `right' to exclude working-class students, poor students, and non-connected students from [the clubs]". These are misrepresentations of both the clubs and the motives of the women...