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...still go. I’ve never been especially distressed that final clubs don’t allow women within their ranks. Sure, the explicit insult to half of the student body rubs me the wrong way, but in the end the same students—male and female??would inhabit them and the same would be excluded. Bee girls might merge with Fly guys, and the Isis could legitimate its bonds with the Delphic. But the change would be nominal. I still wouldn’t fit in—so, selfishly, I’ve never...
Final clubs—male and female??are immensely attractive because they embody the wealth and prestige of gentleman’s Harvard, its (historically white and male) elitism. In addition to the promise of generous post-graduate alumni connections and a sense of belonging on this sometimes isolating campus, these social clubs offer spacious settings for social events. Students seek refuge in final clubs and other exclusive social organizations where they are granted space, conveniently in the form of mansions...
Most attention-getting, however, is Solondz’s device of having the main character be played by seven actresses and one actor over eight segments, from an overweight African-American woman to a Caucasian red-head to “Single White Female?? Jennifer Jason Leigh. During the ninth segment, all the actors appear...
...these people? For the most part, they’re us: young people (the average age of LiveJournal users is about 19), mostly in high school or college (also interesting is that nearly 70 percent of livejournal users are female??one wonders what Larry Summers would have to say about that?). Our generation is more comfortable with technology than that of our parents, and I imagine it takes a certain comfort level to willfully shout out to the world that you’ve cheated on Johnny and are now dating Clyde...
...study also found that the greatest drop-off in female participation in physics occurs between the end of high school—where half of physics students are female??and college, where less than one quarter of undergraduate physics degrees go to women...