is there some rite that all females go through when they enter the hallowed reaches of rpi that render us simply "it"'s that merely happen to have 2 X chromosomes?
Yes. I think they're calling it "attending RPI." The local population imbalance means that your presence alone makes you stand out, which gets you more attention, and naturally some of that attention is the icky kind.
no, what i'm saying is the minute we females enter rpi, we are no longer female, despite the fact that rpi has been opened up to women, there is still the culture of there being no women at rpi. at all. those of us that are here might as well not be. at rpi there is the mind set that the only girls in troy are down in sage
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I don't know who you hang out with that somehow doesn't see you as female. Believe you me, I never had that problem with any of the small number of girls I met when I was there, including you. Maybe I'm weird.
there's one group that i hang out with that also pulls members from sage. whenever we are meeting, and they are not around, there's a definite feeling from the guys that "there are no girls". its more than a feeling. the guys have been known to say that there are no girls in the group, simply because the sage girls are missing. when comments like this are said, us rpi women will and do respond with saying that we are hurt by this. but it still ends up leaving us with the feeling that we are overlooked as women. gahhhh it's tough dealing with people sometimes!
Hm. To be perfectly honest, I've never encountered that "There are no girls" mindset here among my friends (either the Group, the Players or any of the other people I hang out with). Then again, I don't hear them talk about girls, but still.
the group that i'm primarily talking about mixes with sage a ton, and whenever those girls are not around, "there are no girls at all", according to the guys in the group :-(
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