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Worse even than the club's decision was the manner in which it was defended by Fly President Robert M. Carlock '95. On the one hand, Carlock went so far as to say, "If we were the first [to admit women], we would have a monopoly on the female population [on campus]." Such pure motivations...
...other hand, Carlock added, "What women would enjoy a community that is mixed about their presence?" Apparently, Carlock missed the Civil Rights Movement...
Maybe because they see through Bobby Carlock's hollow, paternalistic attempt to explain the Fly's action. "I think it's crap," says Megan E. Lewis '95, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students. "That comment in particular is evidence that they just don't want women in the Fly because they want their club to stay...
Still, the vote is intriguing for two reasons: first, because it represents a flip-flop from the club's position of late last year, when members voted to begin admitting women this fall; and second, because of the sheer stupidity of Carlock's subsequent statements...
...fact, take Carlock's quote, substitute the words "Black person" for "women," and you have a phrase right out of the 1950s South. The explanation is a tired one: in the 1950s, racists said Blacks shouldn't be allowed in white-only establishments because they would feel uncomfortable there. Similarly, Carlock is saying today that women shouldn't be allowed in the final clubs because they'd have a tough time fitting in with all those sexists. How thoughtful...