You Know You're A Smithie When.... (encore)

SmithieandProud
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:52:53 +0000

Oh boy, do I EVER get tired of answering this question. According to a survey taken a few years ago (2007 or 2008, it was during my tenure at Smith), 13% of the student body identifies as lesbian. R6L, I can understand how it can sometimes FEEL like half of your friends (or more) are not strictly straight, but that’s not really an accurate reflection of the college population as a whole. Neither really is 30%.

For the record, 13% gay population makes Smith 40% less gay than Yale, that well known hotbed of torrid homosexual activity :-0!

But frankly, why all this obsession for what students are doing in their beds and with whom they are doing it? I don’t go to colleges demanding to know how many of those students are really straight, and I don’t go around trying to count the gays. Why do you, David?