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I'm not homophobic.  20 years ago lesbians were quite vocal at Smith, but the academic standards were rigourous, the admission rate was nowhere near 40%, and the curriculum was really good.  I was fine with that.  Now Smith -- actually all of the seven sisters left -- actively recruit from countries where the kids have perfect SAT scores to bring up their average.  Imagine how low it would be without that kind of effort.  Smith was once a really, really great place.  Now it's just a place for stupid lesbians and brilliant foreigners.  I hate to say it, but it's true.[/quote]

So all the smart lesbians are at Harvard?  Seriously, I'm not sure how many foreign kids who don't speak English can obtain perfect SATs.  The Pakistani and Indian women perhaps.  But I'm not sure about the ability of, say, a Saudi, Malaysian or Chinese woman to ace the English and essay parts of the SATs.

I think we'd agree that safe sex is a good thing, whatever the orientation.  But I don't think the presence of dental dams (and I didn't know what this was until now either) necessarily means that everyone is having lesbian sex.  Just like having free condoms in your coed Ivy dorm doesn't mean that everybody is doing it there.  Sure, probably lots are.  But the majority, or even a significant minority?  I don't know if we can say, and the mere presence of these dental dams doesn't prove anything about prevalence.  As a Smith grad myself, this sounds like a statement by some vocal campus group.

That said, when I went to Smith 25 years ago, I ended up in the "lesbian" dorm for freshman year because I was late turning in the housing form and nobody straight had asked for that house in the lottery, so there were lots of spaces for stragglers like me.  There was a definite vibe in that house that the "cool" kids were all lesbians.  I'm guessing it's a lot more prevalent now.  Pressure of any kind is bad, whatever the orientation.[/quote]

How did you know it was the lesbian dorm in advance?  That could be horrendous for a straight girl.   Also terrible for a sweet gay girl who was being hit on by an undesirable lesbian queen bee.   When I was in college years ago my dorm had wings-one male one female and common area in the middle.  [/quote]

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