Women stripped of membership at Harvard social club

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 2:34 am, Friday, July 7, 2017


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — One of Harvard's social clubs has reverted back to its traditional male-only status after nine women were stripped of their membership.

The Boston Globe reports (http://bit.ly/2sw68TN ) the women were granted provisional membership at the Fox Club after alumni members, known as graduate members, failed to pass a vote on allowing women in the club in August 2016. Several men also took provisional status in solidarity.

After the provisional status expired last month, the graduate board decided only male provisional members could reapply for graduate membership.

The Rev. Douglas Sears, who served as graduate board president when the women joined, calls the decision a "travesty" and says the women should be members.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Women-stripped-from-membership-at-Harvard-social-11271889.php

[Girard442]

1. They should all get complimentary copies of "The Handmaid's Tale".

Attached to a cinder block and delivered via the front window.

[Squinch]

2. I was just going to comment, "Blessed be the fruit."

Such an amazing metaphor for our time, that book.

[BuddhaGirl]

12. "May the Lord open"

Sorry couldn't help myself - just finished watching the series...all I can say is WOW...it was so good, and really disturbing at the same time!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Property destruction is NOT a Democratic or progressive way to protest. Duh. . . nt

[WinstonSmith4740]

6. Agreed.

But it's the only thing they understand. I'd like to "go high", too. But we've been doing it for years, and what has it gotten us? It's like the old joke about the man who owned the smartest jackass in the world. He still had to hit it over the head with a 2x4 to get its attention.

[Equinox Moon]

3. Thanks for the post.

[Bayard]

5. Hopefully

One of those women has a sparkling new law degree.

[TeamPooka]

7. ALL Fox Club Harvard members are sexist bigots. Fuck them all. Is what history should say

about all of them.

[hughee99]

9. It sounds like several members took provisional status in solidarity and the club's own graduate

board president called the decision not to admit them a "travesty".

[TeamPooka]

10. Totally resigning in protest is the only acceptable response. Fuck them all.

[hughee99]

11. The men have the same provisional status that the women currently have...

If all the men who think the women should be members resigned in protest, they next time this comes up for a vote, there's be no chance of it passing.

[flibbitygiblets]

8. Jesus. What God Damn Century is this?

[NobodyHere]

13. I might be more outraged if there weren't all female clubs

[Demsrule86]

14. I doubt that very much.

[melm00se]

15. what?

that there are no women only clubs at Harvard?