View of Women

gxgal7
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:21:23 +0000

I must inform you that the idea that women cannot be Yell Leaders is absolutely false and often repeated erroneously.

The Yell Leaders are elected and anyone, including females, are allowed to run and have run in the past. It is just not a popular idea up to this point to have a female Yell Leader, so none have been elected by the student body (which includes about 25,000 potential female votes). There is currently a female running for Yell Leader for next year and may very well be the first.

I went to A&M as a women in the 80’s. I NEVER felt discriminated against. This, for whatever reason, is another one of those myths about A&M that gets perpetuated. Maybe because the student body tends to be more conservative, the school was once all male/all military, or it’s in the south. Who knows for sure. That was 30 years ago. I’m fairly confident it hasn’t reverted to the 1950’s since I was there.

In any group there will be a few people who act as jerks, but that can be said in any huge group of people, and it’s often blown way out of proportion. Please relax. You will be fine.