<p>Since our own Smithie isn't home, we had another current Smithie and her mom over for dinner the other night.</p>
<p>The following characterization was made of Womens Studies majors: mostly white girls with lip rings, dreadlocks, and attitudes.</p>
<p>????</p>
<p>well, most of SMITH is white girls. So I doubt the women's studies dept. would be in any way unusual in this regard. ;) As for lip rings and dreadlocks, probably more likely in the women's studiesa department than in the general student population, but common in all majors. Not to mention that large numbers of students combine Women's Studies with other majors...a housemate is doing a double major with Engineering, and I know several others who are double-majoring in it along with government, psych, english, or sociology. None have lip rings, all are white, and one has dreads.</p>
<p>I'd be willing to bet that all are women. ;)</p>
<p>(whoops! I take that back....)</p>
<p>well, i don't think they need lip rings or any other stuff to prove that they are so themselves and haven't given in to the reality. To be unique doesn't mean to be odd.
but I will take back my words if they truly love lip rings and dreadlocks~~</p>
<p>"To be unique doesn't mean to be odd." </p>
<p>While there's nothing wrong with being odd, I certainly think some people pursue oddness as their chosen road to being unique. And I think that's a great quote.</p>
<p>On a different scale, I don't think the average Smithie is "average."</p>
<p>Ain't it the truth? But that's not the entire truth- two of my Smith friends are definitely white, but they do NOT have dreadlocks or lip rings. Your average white American girls with clean faces and brushed hair. They are women's studues majors.</p>
<p>To be unique is to be different. Since being different means your not average, or submit into conformity, or (what I like the best) NORMAL then people percieve uniqueness as odd. Being odd is not a bad thing, but stereotyping and propagating predjudices is.</p>
<p>I agree with what "Private_Joker" said. BUT it seems like I have chosen an inappropriate word to express~ I think it is great to show who you are and your uniqueness, but I don't like ppl on purpose mimicing some "weird" actions in order to look cool.</p>