That's actually funny, because I remember being envious of the boys' schools. The idea that boys should be educated was not new, and so there was institutional tolerance. Always, always, there was anxiety about teaching us. I started the world's dumbest fight amongst faculty members in my high school when I wrote a paper comparing cultural practices of marriage for a religion project. The religion teacher tried to get me taken off the honor roll, and didn't speak with one of the English teachers for about a year, I found out later.
I remember being angry and depressed at the time, when I found out as much of the situation as anyone would tell me. My feeling: if the world is going to end when a 16 year-old girl writes a paper decrying the patriarchy... Really it ends there. I was confounded. It was like I was the first 16 year-old anyone had ever met.
It was less that the school moved around us than that the rich blonde volleyball players of which the school was mostly composed were expert at ignoring everyone but each other, for which I envied also them.
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Date: 2012-12-14 02:42 am (UTC)I remember being angry and depressed at the time, when I found out as much of the situation as anyone would tell me. My feeling: if the world is going to end when a 16 year-old girl writes a paper decrying the patriarchy... Really it ends there. I was confounded. It was like I was the first 16 year-old anyone had ever met.
It was less that the school moved around us than that the rich blonde volleyball players of which the school was mostly composed were expert at ignoring everyone but each other, for which I envied also them.