“The idea of standing outside in the New England winter waiting to be judged on my appearance to determine whether I could enter a male-dominated, heterosexist space to grind with some entitled fuckers was never appealing to me. The fact that most of our social spaces on campus are old boys’ clubs that act as if there is a virtue in partaking in outdated traditions is patently absurd. What I didn’t realize until after my experience at the Advocate was that most of our social spaces are fundamentally about excluding people. Whether it be the Lampoon, the Advocate or the Spee, Harvard social life is structured around exclusivity. Our sense of community is hierarchical: men choose which women can come into the final clubs and comp processes degenerate into incongruous exercises in ego and domination. Many upperclassmen try to intimidate freshman rather than help them navigate the chaos of Harvard. The Signet makes you think you need to pay $500 a semester to meet other people interested in the arts. Just because only seven percent of people who apply to Harvard get in, we students should not continually try to replicate that high of being chosen.”
— Martabel Wasserman for The Harvard Perspective
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