<p>omg that was heavy. may i say that me and my cohorts were not that seriously debating the issue. they arent that sexist.</p>
<p>thx for the input. are you a tasplicant?</p>
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yes, mlk and frederick douglass and gandhi (SUCH ardent war leaders they were) did that and ignored women’s rights… NOT</p>
<p>the discrepancy between sexes in inherent in nature. the male is usually dominant (alpha male more so than alpha female) unless in like spiders and those animals. the only reason humans are different is reason. males and females are wired differently. we have different traits. we know the deep truth. we are **just poking fun **in debate about our different qualities. as a “intellectually inspired youth” i’d expect you to understand that.</p>
<p>whew! rant over :)</p>
<p>Oh no! I think we might have all jumped on the newbie. Hey, we don’t bite, you can come out if we scared you off…</p>
<p>yes please, we are nice, quirky people.</p>
<p>Hmm, new debate mis amigos?</p>
<p>emphasis on quirky 
mls</p>
<p>uh-oh don, amigos is a masculine noun in spanish, which is used to describe a group even if only one member is male yet 10,000 are female. another sign of self-proclaimed male domination</p>
<p>i have the feeling that since wink is here and cira will return later, we might have a full-blown debate tonight. yay!</p>
<p>Hah, I was in no way trying to be condescending…but I get really riled up about womens’ rights and tend to go on verbose rants, my apologies. Yes, I understand that you were poking fun, I’m not that uptight, haha.</p>
<p>I was not saying that Gandhi, Fredrick Douglass, MLK, etc. subjugated women themselves…
In fact, Gandhi actually promoted the equality of women and men.</p>
<p>Rather the point I wanted to convey was that women really haven’t had the opportunity to assume leadership positions. There could have been NUMEROUS “Gandhi-esque” women who would have preached the same sentiments, but would not have been listened to.</p>
<p>In India during this time period the average life span of an Indian woman was only twenty seven years. Babies and the pregnant women ran a high risk of dying young. Child marriage was very common and widows were in very large number. Only 2% of the women had any kind of education and women did not have an identity of their own. In North India, they practiced the purdah (veil) system. Women could not go out of the house unless accompanied by men and the face covered with cloth. The fortunate ones who could go to school had to commute in covered carts (tangas).</p>
<p>& yes, I am applying to TASP.
& yes…I did mention feminism/gender stereotypes in my essays, haha.</p>
<p>Wow, you’re like the Encyclopedia Indianica…
How excited are you for TASP? Are you a former TASSer? Hair color? Mother’s maiden name? (:</p>
<p>^^ lol. i actually used stereotypes in my personal conflict essay. ok, don, let’s not interrogate the newbie</p>
<p>yay you sound awesome. and ignore hudson. well the last two questions anyway</p>
<p>and random if you ever catch 32flavors on here have a talk, she’s an awesome feminist too.</p>
<p>I’m extremely excited about TASP, I’m from a conservative Southern town so anything intellectually stimulating/liberal in thought is welcome.
No I’m not a former TASSer.
Black hair, and my mother kept her last name. (remember she’s a feminist, hah).</p>
<p>that’s a good point. Should women take men’s last name when they marry? Whom am I kidding? All of us would emphatically yell “NO!” from the highest rooftop we could find.</p>
<p>cool beans. another southerner. hopefully working in the eastern time zone?? unlike elmo (right?)</p>
<p>and so who’s last name did you take?</p>
<p>what’s the point of changing your name? if you love someone, why change your name to fit theirs? that’s submission and acceptance, not love. as the old quote goes: “what’s in a name?”</p>
<p>obviously just a bunch of letters</p>
<p>it’s kinda hard debating and trying to type out anatomy notes at the same time</p>
<p>Of course my answer is No.
I don’t even understand why women do it today. I associate my name with an identity, and changing it would be strange, kind of like I was assuming a new stage in my life…but I suppose woman may feel that way when they get married?</p>
<p>no I’m in the central timezone (aka Texas)
and my last name is a combination of my mother and father’s last names…with my mother’s coming first then a hyphen and then my father’s.</p>
<p>So, elmo, are you really going to apply to Deep Springs? I never really asked you. i know i am, and I just heard about the thing today.</p>
<p>so earnest donny.</p>
<p>It’s very walden-like, which draws me toward it. So, what’s your dream school?</p>
<p>i don’t think so don. i would like the communal learning and all that, but i don’t think mucking after cows will help me realize my career goal. </p>
<p>possible colleges to apply to : University of Wash, Wash. State university, Wash. U @ St. Louis, Reed College, UC Berkeley and Davis</p>
<p>Dream school : stanford or Hogwarts :)</p>