Word: inferiore
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It’s interesting that being “blonde” is even part of my identity at all, but it has affected my time at Harvard. Blonde Harvard students are regarded as intellectually inferior and unconcerned with the world around them, only interested in socializing and sexual promiscuity. Blondes are regarded as cheerful and nice—people seem surprised to meet a blonde that is forceful or demanding. Our peers unconciouscly associate blondeness with affluence and privilege, and thus regard blondes’ opinions as naïve and ill-informed. People assume that...
...that this dominance surprises anyone. Expected to run away with another Ivy title and poised to make a serious run at the National Championship, Harvard’s early season matches against inferior squads are little more than a formality and a chance to practice...
...other words, if Harvard weren’t banned from participating in the postseason, the team would have likely had two home games against slightly inferior opponents—with either one possibly carried nationally on ESPN2—before reaching the national semifinals...
Women interested in participating in the Final Club scene continue to occupy an inferior position and can only enter the clubs as the invited guests of their male peers. Given the obvious skewing effect this imbalanced social dynamic has on male-female student relations, it’s not surprising that female undergraduates have been fighting for the right to integrate into the Final Clubs since the 1960s. Yet despite over 30 years of protests and campaigns, Harvard women find themselves no better off today than they were over a generation...
...fact that Final Clubs do not admit women is not the issue. Nor is the fact that the Club parties are often open to women without being open to men. Women being placed in an inferior, vulnerable position within the male-dominated party scene remains a problem regardless of the existence of the Final Club system...