<p>... because if you do, I may start to cry, or have to rush out of the room before I throw up.</p>
<p>I'm certainly glad to hear you don't have an "agenda" however - since your previous posts tended to raise doubts on this score.</p>
<p>what does it mean when you have "\'s" instead of just " 's " ?</p>
<p>Otherwise, you'd be a holy terror and scourge to all the men\s and boy\'s, let alone to the benighted President\'s of Harvard\'s!!!</p>
<p>Here's one of my favorite petition\'s - guaranteed to make your non-feminist blood boil:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.studentsforlarry.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.studentsforlarry.org/</a></p>
<p>again....what does this strange punctuation mean?</p>
<p>I assume\'s its part of the fashionable, cutting-edge vocabulary for certain "non-feminist" feminist\'s like ashilgee.</p>
<p>I really don't want to be rude, but it's annoying.</p>
<p>I'm a non-feminist female. I really don't think anything Larry Summers might have accidentally said in a public forum will affect my chances of succeeding in math and science. I'll affect those chances much more if I waste time complaining about one person's opinion of female brainpower instead of working towards more tangible goals.</p>
<p>I really don't want to be rude, but it's annoying.</p>
<p>I'm a non-feminist female. I really don't think anything Larry Summers might have accidentally said in a public forum will affect my chances of succeeding in math and science. I'll affect those chances much more if I waste time complaining about one person's opinion of female brainpower instead of working towards more tangible goals.</p>
<p>Whoops! sorry for the double!</p>
<p>I don't really think he meant anything by them. I think that the fact that he mentioned something like that without even thinking about it is more evidence to how ingrained the idea is in society that someone as smart as Mr. Summers would make a comment like that without thinking twice about it. I'm a physics/engineering major next year, and the thought that men are better in those disciplines has definitely crossed my mind before. I wouldn't hold anything against him personally except that he probably should have been more careful.</p>
<p>It's surprising to me how few people have actually read exactly what Summers said. Here's the transcript of his speech.</p>
<p>What people assume from reports on the issue is that he said something really and directly offensive about intrinsic ability. That's just not the case.</p>
<p>People, let's stop dancing around the issue and get to the heart of the topic:</p>
<p>What's the purpose of the forward slash before the apostrophe (i.e. Harvard\'s)?</p>
<p>Have you even read what he said? He never said that he thought that all women had less ability in engineering and the sciences than males. He just never said that.</p>
<p>One major problem in this issue is people seem to simply assume that they know what he said without ever reading the exact transcript. The plain fact is that Summers is being utterly and unjustifiably demonized by the media for something that he never said.</p>
<p>lol...must<em>forget</em>me, I've already asked that like a gazillion times and ashligee has yet to respond. i wonder if ashligee also types like that on formal papers.</p>
<p>In my view Mr. Summers knew exactly what he was saying (as did the faculty, students and outside educators). We need to stop making excuses and deal with the core issues.</p>
<p>Young women applying to Harvard deserve to know how much of a concern this is at the university. Whether or not a sexist attitude permeates all levels of the university or is isolated in the president's office? Y'all agree?</p>
<p>I have a feeling it might be a formatting issue, not something she intentionally does. But it's very strange that she won't answer us about it!</p>
<p>If he were being controversial, well, wouldn't the premier academic university in the States be the perfect place for debate?</p>
<p>Okay ashligee, I assume you haven't read Summers speach because if you would have, you would have known that he was theorizing and not presenting facts. He did back his theories up with facts but nevertheless they were theories. The media needs to stop misportraying his statements and feminists (oh wait not feminists) like you need to calm down.</p>
<p>And your punctuation is most utterly annoying and for no stated purpose.</p>
<p>everyones afraid to be a feminist... every girl prefaces an argument by saying "well I'm no feminist but..." how can you guys be ready to go to college when you're not even confident in your convictions? Stand up and say what you want, and don't be afraid that some other person, male or female, miles away may look at you with contempt or scorn.
feminist is not a dirty word... even though the previous post would lead one to believe anything but.</p>
<p>the problem is that when people think feminist, they no longer think someone who believes in equal rights, opportunities, etc. for women. like any other moniker (liberal, conservative, republican, democrat), the image it conjures is an extreme exaggeration. often, the most extreme people are the ones on the news and setting the image for an entire group. i think i am a feminist but most high profile feminists would not call me one, thus i am not a feminist.</p>
<p>I am a feminist in the true sense of the word, the one that fits under the same description that you mentioned earlier. What I am not, is the exagerated version that has infiltrated mainstream cultur and scared many young girls away. I don't actually see how very many females can not be feminists.</p>