<p>Ok, I just remembered. However, some things are best left unstated.</p>
<p>I might just add that this is probably the only conceivable environment in which bus loads of women would be stampeding to meet that particular group of guys.</p>
<p>Alexandre, "Women's College" not "all girls' schools" please!....We're not talking Emma Willard, here!</p>
<p>monydad: I guess things have improved--in my day some of the girls actually consented to riding in a U Haul it truck (how appropriate) to attend fraternity parties. And then there were the tea dances at the Naval Academy where they lined you up by height and paired you with a cadet partner of commensurate height. Ugh.</p>
<p>Girl's schools? We're not talking about girl's schools. This is the college search forum. </p>
<p>"unnatural" is quite a term. Geez.</p>
<p>I suspect that the proportion of lesbian students varies from campus to campus. I went to a fairly conservative (and southern) women's college and that environment probably wasn't considered as welcoming to some lesbians as other places (even co-ed places) might be. I had gay friends there, but it was hardly a hotbed of homosexual social life.</p>
<p>I have heard that there are more lesbians at some schools, but nothing that suggests it is the 'dominant social culture.' </p>
<p>And for that matter, having to drive to social events, or invite men to your campus, doesn't drive the culture either. For me, and many young women, we liked the separation between academics and co-ed social life. M-F we had our serious studying, hardcore extracurriculars on campus, and our girl time. Weekends we pursued the co-ed thing. Driving to a date didn't define my undergraduate experience. So what if someone can come up with an insulting name for a bus, big deal. I'm going to refuse a college over that?</p>
<p>The reality is as someone else has said--for many young people, college is a time to discover and express their sexual identity. For me, it was hardcore boy chasing. For others, it's coming out of the closet or being freer expressing ones gayness. Just about anywhere you go (unless you seek out a campus with a religious affiliation that shuns homosexuality) is going to have a gay population. On some campuses, it's going to be an active, open, visible population, and that includes an awful lot of large co-ed institutions. </p>
<p>The difference is that at a woman's college, you're more likely to get to know some of them. Which isn't an altogether bad thing, some of us would say. When you've got 10 people in your french class, and one of them is a lesbian, I suspect you'll get to know a lot more about her than her sexual orientaton.</p>
<p>I recently read an article in a major american magazine about lesbianism at smith college in Massachusetts....</p>