Scared of smith?

douxrien
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:23:14 +0000

so i recently joined this unofficial facebook group for the class of 2022 and im totally freaking out

first of all, in all the introductory posts, most of them have mentioned their pronouns, which is great and all but now i feel like if i misgender someone by mistake or if i dont know all the different sexualities im going to be looked down upon or sth

i feel like people might get offended easily and will definitely exclude me from stuff if i dont agree with their mottos. looking at their posts have made me realise that most of my daily conversations with friends include lots of crude, politically incorrect humour which might be taken waaaay too seriously there.

im not from the US, but in my country you’d call me a liberal. and im mostly fine with stuff like that but i dont actively express my opinions and protest or do stuff like worship hillary clinton, beyonce etc. and almost all of these women seem like extremely liberal active social justice warrior types (IM SORRY FOR USING THAT STEREOTYPE BUT they seem like they’d shred me to pieces if I say sth like gender neutral pronouns like ze are just weird and id never use them) who’d frown upon me for being ‘backdated’ . i dont think i’ll ever be like them either. and i dont see much variation?? like they all seem the same (super driven,reaaaaally positive and all about fempower), and i feel like i always have to tiptoe around them.

and i got accepted early with really good finaid so i have to go there lol…

(yeah ik fempower stuff is to be expected at smith but i dont get why everybody tags themselves as a feminist because it makes me feel like if i dont mention it, its not a core part of who i am, and they make me feel like it should be a core part of me??)

pls soothe my nerves, im worried ill never make friends here.