Wednesday, April 26, 2006
'Gender imbalance among super party suites'
So I went over to The Crimson to get the latest on the Kaavya Viswanathan saga (she's still internalizing) and stumbled upon a far more important outrage: There's a 'gender imbalance' in 'party funding' at Harvard. You see, the university that has more money than it knows what to do with also subsidizes parties for students -- and male 'super party suites' apply for more subsidies than female 'super party suites.' Thus the 'gender imbalance.' ... They're working through all the nurture-vs.-nature 'assumptions' about whether men guzzle beer more than females. But here's another 'assumption' from years of observing my fellow males at their devious best: I can almost guarantee that the ratio of females to males at male-sponsored keg parties, if properly planned, is about 2-1. Any sociological calculation of party gender imbalances should take this assumption into consideration. ... But we are talking about Harvard.
So I went over to The Crimson to get the latest on the Kaavya Viswanathan saga (she's still internalizing) and stumbled upon a far more important outrage: There's a 'gender imbalance' in 'party funding' at Harvard. You see, the university that has more money than it knows what to do with also subsidizes parties for students -- and male 'super party suites' apply for more subsidies than female 'super party suites.' Thus the 'gender imbalance.' ... They're working through all the nurture-vs.-nature 'assumptions' about whether men guzzle beer more than females. But here's another 'assumption' from years of observing my fellow males at their devious best: I can almost guarantee that the ratio of females to males at male-sponsored keg parties, if properly planned, is about 2-1. Any sociological calculation of party gender imbalances should take this assumption into consideration. ... But we are talking about Harvard.
