Gays at Williams

mythmom
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:07:51 +0000

Perhaps the “predominant athletic culture” depends on whom you know. I did not answer this question, my son sitting next to me did. He was just to lazy to write. It is lame to say he has many gay friends, but as a recently decided theater major, I must say that he does, and his answer was born of talking to them.

You seem to go to a different school than he does because he is not an athlete (I don’t think he ever met a sport he liked) and does not feel the athletic culture defines his experience at all.

That is not to say your experience is not accurate Teltar, but it is not everyone’s experience.

I do not answer questions from “my” perspective, since I would not know the answers. I consult my son at every turn and answer from his perspective. If you disagree with him, that’s fine, but there is a snideness in your responses to me that is a bit wounding.

If you are so unhappy, perhaps you should transfer to a more congenial campus.

Williams is a bit buttoned up – it’s very old New England so everything is less showy than at many campuses, political and queer culture included.

And lest you think I am just an old fogey, I teach at college and have been often a course in Queer Studies for next semester. I exist in a very open environment with many GLBT faculty and we all get along and respect each other enormously, and we think our very heterogeneous faculty (if you’ll pardon the hetero) (including many people of color, and many Asian, African and Latin American faculty) a great boon to our students.