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As a freshman at Harvard, she started a blog called Sex and the Ivy, where she wrote about her hookups, self-medication with alcohol, recovery from an eating disorder and crushing desire to be liked. All standard stuff for a college student.
Hookups.
Self-medication with alcohol.
Eating disorder.
Crushing desire for approval.
All standard stuff?
If this sort of self-destructive behaviour is considered the
normalised mindset of a female college student, then the pressures of college and the working world are obviously too much for them to bear and driving them to misery. Why, then, encourage their education at all, particularly if they apparently have a 1 in 4 chance of also getting raped at college? If you're simply not resilient enough to handle high pressure, continuing to expose yourself to it is madness. The life obviously isn't for you. Be a housewife.
The other thing I'll dispute from the article: behaviours that are all obvious cries for attention (casual sex, alcohol abuse, eating disorders, desire for approval), are
attention-whoring behaviours, and calling them out for what they are isn't misogyny, but a distate for weasel language that will only enable her continued misery by protecting her ego from reality.