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...Just a Squirrel Tryin' to Get a Nut" (Fifteen Minutes, Nov. 5): It frightens me to think that two intelligent and well-educated women would rather accentuate issues of gender inequality than fight them. The writers continually refer to the women of Wellesley as "girls" as opposed to Harvard men, suggesting the subservience of women. These authors are only helping to strengthen the part of our society which hopes to make women subservient...
Aside from being an offensive and unjust characterization of Wellesley students, "Just a Squirrel Tryin' to Get a Nut" is a painful example of the sexism that exists in our society. Young women (consistently referred to as "girls") who have made the intelligent, informed decision to attend an all-female college are portrayed as desperate to catch men (never called "boys"), and willing to trade sexual favors for any sort of recognition. The "girls" depicted clearly have little sense of their self-worth except in relation to men, and feel that wearing revealing clothing and having indiscriminate...
...understand the article was an attempt at satire. However, I hold humor to a higher standard, one which insightfully mocks and challenges the arbitrary or outdated constructs of our culture. JULIA ROSENSTOCK Wellesley...
garden tool: (n.) a whore, from "ho." "The Wellesley garden tools are here...
...author is a junior at Wellesley College...