Thursday, February 11, 2010

re-calculate your "Math on Campus"

When we read The New Math on Campus we looked very closely at a passage with what we know to be a "questionable" percentage. "Out of that 40 percent, there are maybe 20 percent that we would consider...", quoted from "the girl seated across the table" as we said does not represent all women. Some people mentioned how this made it seem like some guys aren't even worth looking at, or not "date able". And we said that it is as if she was talking for all women by saying "we". Women who were described on the first page as, "[wearing] tight-fitting tops, hair sculpted, makeup just so...". I know that this is in some cases accurate because many girls, including myself and many other high school and college students, tend to do this at times to some extent. However, this is not some kind of "definition" for how women act and certainly not as often as they make it sound, if ever for some people. This article, in my opinion, made Jayne Dallas sound like she was saying the 60% of girls she was talking about are like this even though they were not said by the same people. This author set up each anecdote, as Mr. Bolos called them, to make women come across as these appearance obsessive, boy crazy pawns who will do anything for a date. I cannot say that it isn't true for some women because unlike Jayne Dallas I am not going to speak for all women. But it is degrading to clump every woman on a college campus into this category and just a really flawed argument with unrealistic statistics.

I mentioned myself in this article and I, obviously, am not a college student, but I believe this belief can be applied to high schools to a certain extent as well.

This is my opinion so feel free to respond, but I also had after thoughts like would if you're a lesbian? Because this article would be saying you are also fighting over those "10%" of guys. It is just stuff like that which just makes this article sound so uninformed because they don't even consider exceptions like this. Or any exception for that matter.

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