Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
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Emily Toth. Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
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Advice for Women in Academia
Emily Toth
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“I Must Be Thin” strikes Ms. Mentor as a deadly mantra, one women should resist. It siphons away mental energy; it leads to ridicule and abuse and prejudice, for beauty standards have always depended on scarcity and difficulty. In poor societies, fat is in; among rich people, thin is in—so that U.S. women who can afford to dine grandly brag instead that they've learned to starve themselves. Ms. Mentor has heard that some women actually interrupt delicious dinner parties to denounce their own thighs.
And now universities, seemingly in cahoots with the sadistic designers of airline seats, have added a new torture. The latest brand of classroom furniture installed at, among other places, the University of Oklahoma and Louisiana State University, features seats that are only fourteen inches wide. The distance between the seats and their attached writing surfaces is so small that pregnant women and male athletes literally cannot fit inside the desks they're supposed to sit in.
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