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...Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights," Daum found, but her male hosts would never accept her—or any "her," for that matter—as a true equal deserving of membership. "The most insulting part about it is that they’re saying ‘I don??€™t want you in my club,’" she told me. "It makes me feel like a second-class citizen...
...course, these consequences don??€™t necessarily apply to everyone. Final clubs are just one side of a multifaceted social scene. Only 15 percent of students belong, and while many more are loosely affiliated, a decent number of undergrads make it through their entire four years at Harvard without ever stepping through one of the clubs’ heavy wooden doors. But the existence of alternatives does not eliminate the problem. Many women may not participate in final club culture, but many others do—as long as some suffer from gender discrimination, the issue is not resolved...
...imbalance of control creates a perverse need for women to curry favor with the men who make the lists. "As a girl, you feel all this social anxiety," another female senior says. "You constantly need to manage your relationships with your male friends in clubs to make sure you don??€™t get left by the wayside." This dependence consistently and systematically puts women into situations they should never have to experience. A female student explains that the need to remain on final club lists "has sustained certain friendships with guys who are constantly hosting me, who otherwise...
...admission to exclusive parties, get, as Schuyler aptly put it, "second-class citizenship" in the final club nation. A world of male hosts and female guests creates a fundamental asymmetry in gender relations. Women can’t return the hospitality that is constantly bestowed upon them. Since they don??€™t have social space of their own to give or withhold, they’re simply expected to, as one female student put it, "smile and look pretty...
...start. The opportunities for acquiring wealth and real estate that existed in the late 19th century—when the last of the eight surviving men’s clubs was founded—have vanished with a bygone era. Properties like those owned by the male clubs just don??€™t come on the market any more, and to the extent they do, the cost is often prohibitively high (see last year’s 45 Mt. Auburn Street fiasco for an example of how tricky purchasing Harvard Square real estate can be). Currently, the two most well...