<p>Byerly, this is another red herring. I recognize that Princeton’s clubs were originally all-male and that, until recently, they still were.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, that’s not an argument in Harvard’s favor.</p>
<p>First, even if Princeton’s eating clubs were still all-male, that wouldn’t justify a similar outlet at Harvard from doing the same. Note that I’m not saying that the finals clubs have permeated the social life at Harvard to a similar degree as the eating clubs at Princeton. I’m just noting that they have some similarities, namely in being self-selecting – and selective – institutions.</p>
<p>Second, Princeton’s eating clubs are no longer segregated by sex. As you probably know, cases against clubs like Ivy and TI forced the clubs to admit women. The issue here, however, is not whether Princeton’s institutions were all-male in the past; it’s whether Harvard’s are <em>now</em>. You still haven’t addressed MightyChip’s claim, and you need to make some sort of response to this if you want to keep up this line of argument.</p>
<p>Again, words like eating club, or finals club, don’t need quotation marks around them. I noted this in my last post, but neither stopped doing it nor said why you do it. This suggests to me that you either aren’t reading others’ posts in a thread you’ve really ignited, or that you’re placing the quotation marks around eating club in an effort to delegitimize them. I ask you again: why do you place quotation marks around “eating club?”</p>