February 2012
14 posts
Women’s College Problems #440
When your professors put “no knitting/crocheting in class” in their syllabus
Women's College Problems #439
Being discriminated against everywhere EXCEPT your school for being NOT straight.
Women's College Problems #431
When you vehemently deny that your campus isn’t that big on parties to your state school-going friends (they get so smug) and then, as soon as you close the Skype conversation, proceed to blow bubbles in the hallways with your hallmates for the duration of the Friday night.
Women's College Problems #430
Get a job at the neighboring state university. Find out only women work there.
Women's College Problems #429
The moment when you realize you might like the friend everyone thinks you’re dating
Women's College Problems #428
Realizing too late that dating the alpha lesbian on campus your first semester means that dating any other woman on campus would now be considered incestuous.
—please credit me only as A
Women's College Problems #427
My Social Circles Look Weird
At School: Hang out exclusively with women
At Home: Hang out exclusively with men
Women's College Problems #426
Developing uncomfortably close relationships with your best friend, and questioning your sexuality every day
Women's College Problems #425
Agnes Scott Ideals
When the term upperclasswomen and First Year is used in order to remove negative masculine connotations. Most students don’t get it, even after four years of attendance.
Would anybody be interested in taking over as admin for WCP? In true Mount Holyoke fashion, the work load this semester is looking pretty grim, and I would like my followers to have a mod capable of updating the queue consistently. - Kels
Shit Queer* girlz say
I think most students at women’s colleges can relate to this—wherever they fall on the sexuality and gender spectrums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JrQ2RRXBD6w
Diva Diva Diva Cup
http://www.amazon.com/review/R39TB4HUVK8Z6/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R39TB4HUVK8Z6
Women's College Problems #424
You have to drink on 6’s (people who like chicks) because otherwise your fake girlfriend will be mad at you.
Women's College Problems #423
Mt Holyoke’s packing list
Non-Essential Items That Make Life More Comfortable— Your favorite stuffed animals
January 2012
32 posts
Women's College Problems #421
Annoying your family by telling them how sexist everything is
Women's College Problems #420
Take a class off campus. ”So the guys are just there? It’s like not a big deal?”
Women's College Problem #???
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the-real-canadian-suiteheart asked: Do you know of any all-girl colleges in Saskatchewan or Alberta? Been googling, found nothing.
Women's College Problems #419
The slow realization that most of the individuals you meet outside of your school are straight and moderate to conservative. This will get some getting used to.
Women's College Problems #418
When upperclasswomen streak through the first year dorms, some girls hide and others sit in the hall with cameras.
Women's College Problems #417
You explain your social activities to your mother and realize how much you and your best friend sound like a lesbian couple.
Women's College Problems #416
not being a hard core feminist when everyone else seems to be.
Women's College Problems #415
Having to constantly justify going to a women’s college to ignorant people who think you’re only there because 1.) You’re gay 2.) You’re a “radical” feminist and/or 3.) You’re gay.
Women's College Problems #414
you use the men’s bathroom whenever you want, since they are hardly used anyway. Then are confused when a man comes in and looks at you funny for being in there.
Women's College Problems #413
You completely forget how to be around guys. You end up flirting with your childhood guy friends from home without even noticing it until they point it out.
Women's College Problems #412
Being discriminated against in some areas of campus for being straight .
Women's College Problems #411
Resisting the urge to grit your teeth every time you have to explain to your cousins’ cousins that you’re a “freshman”
Women’s College Problems #411
Alternating between cutting your hair short and letting it grow out to troll people with your ever fluctuating sexuality.
Women's College Problems #410
At home:
“That commercial/movie/TV show/novel/anything has disturbingly sexist/ablist/racist/heterocentric/[Judith Butler buzzword] undertones.”
“Whaaaaaaat?”
Women's College Problems #409
You bring in a guy friend from another University and by the end of the day, everyone on campus is talking about it and asking if he’s your boyfriend.
Women's College Problems #408
The endless confusion around gays/gaze, as in: “did you mean the male gaze or the male gays?!”
Women's College Problems #407
Every time you start to get into a deep group conversation about feeling your ovaries, someone’s boyfriend walks by.
Women's College Problems #406
straight girls measure their self-worth by the number of lesbians that have crushes on them.
Women's College Problems #405
That one Amherst boy that always shows up to parties dressed like a sailor. Seriously man, it’s not even Halloween.
Women's College Problems #404
Drunk, naked seniors running around campus and first-year dorms during Black Cat week.
Agnes Scott
Women's College Problems #403
You could be larcenist-vagabond-drug dealing-arson-rapist, but as long as you’re a female between the ages of 16-30, you are above the suspicion of public safety on campus. Men of all ages, socioeconomic classes and general dispositions, entering campus after business hours may well lead to your arrest.
Women's College Problems #402
Assuming that every even vaguely androgynous person you see is a woman, or at least genetically female, even when you are off campus.
Women's College Problems #401
Graduated from a women’s college but never once kissed a woman in those four years. The rest of the world assumes you have, and wants details.
Women's College Problems #400
That awkward moment the Monday after Bonfire. Everyone saw you naked-well does pasties and body count?
Women's College Problems #399
You talk about the documentary Miss Representation, issues concerning women, and the gender binary at a fraternity formal.
Women's College Problems #397
Sidenote: Bryn Mawr often posts a record of reports to public safety about ‘criminal activity’ in their weekly newspaper.
Typical crime blotter: Boy spotted in library at 1:00 pm. Upon further investigation, discovered to be a Haverford student.
Women's College Problems #398
When you’re off campus you see a guy and you ask a friend “Is he actually hot or are my standards just getting lower?”
Women's College Problems #396
Your favorite TV show airs at the same time as Glee. It is impossible to find an available television.
Women's College Problems #395
Get into a discussion about gender with a friend from home. Have to explain that no, you didn’t just make up that word.
Women's College Problems #394
There is a greatly imbalanced male/female ratio on your Facebook friends list.
December 2011
32 posts
Women's College Problems #393
People think you’re part of ‘No Shave November’. You haven’t shaved since the August.
Women's College Problems #392
Getting a friend request from a male on Facebook once or twice a year.
Women's College Problems #391
You have to shave before you go home so your mom doesn’t tell you to stop being a militant feminist.
Women's College Problems #390
Straight, sexually frustrated women masturbating in the dorm showers loudly.