When Kennedy joined OWL, Harvard was a men-only college

[wryter2000]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=163580#163687

Forgive me for starting a separate thread, but I'm afraid this point is being missed.

When Kennedy joined that club, Harvard only admitted men. The club would naturally be all-male because the college was all-male. Anything he did in college would have been all-male. Where is the big freaking deal?

[the_spectator]

1. Exactly! And when he drove off that bridge and drowned that woman...

there was no OnStar or cell phones or anything which could have easily brought help and saved her. Cut him some slack!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. holy shit!

:wow:

[Misunderestimator]

7. Hilarious...

or something... :eyes:

[Fenris]

8. Witty and insightful!

You are the first person to ever bring that up!

:eyes:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Odd...

I've never heard/read anybody but the most adamant right-wingers bring up Chappaquiddick.

[the_spectator]

11. Oh come on, I was just thinking of those OnStar radio ads

OnStar (Southern,female) employee: Own Stah, how kin I hep yew?
Senator Kennedy: Yes ahh, well I was driving home and ahh, I suddenly find my car in the water and ahh I seem to have lost the girl who was with me.
OS: OK Sir, Ahm contactin' the local police for yew...
SK: Ahh, thanks. That is the LOCAL police you're contacting, right? Chappaquidick Police? No need to go beyond them I think.
OS: That's raht sir. Ahl stay on the line until they git there. Kin Ah dew anythin' else for yew, sir?
SK: Ahh well, this girl who was with me, ahh, seems really lost. You sound like a fine young filly, you ever make it up to Washington?...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Yep...

Ladies and gentleman, that's the beauty of the scientific method. You can conduct experiments to test your theories.

Let's proceed. What do you think will happen re: Bush's illegal activities, why, and whether it'll be a good or bad thing?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. *thump* *thump* *thump* Another troll bites the dust

*thump* *thump* *thump* Another troll bites the dust
And another tombstone
And another tombstone
Another troll bites the dust

[Misunderestimator]

15. Doh!

:thumbsup:

Took long enough.

[The Straight Story]

2. so then he was a sexist and chose an all male (and probably white) school?

I dunno, people can spin things a zillion ways.

To me it is more important what one has done in office (or who they are now) then where they have been.

[wryter2000]

3. It was 52 years ago.

We're talking 1954 here. The recent wave of feminism didn't start until the 70's. No one even used the word "sexist" in 1954. I believe that even predates The Feminine Mystique, which was the first suggestion that things might not be equal for women.

On edit: I see your point. But I'll bet you money I can't afford to lose :) that if you bring up the point that Harvard was all-male when Kennedy joined this group, you'll stop 90% of freepers in their tracks.

[Vincardog]

4. Well why don't we get all hot and bothered about some thing real?

Why worry about these DISTRACTIONS? Lets talk about what is happening NOW.
STOP ALITO
STOP aWoL
Retake our Government

[Lisa]

5. Yale was also all-male when Bush attended ...

If they make a big deal of Kennedy's club, they'd also have to do the same for their own guy!

And as far as I know, Kennedy didn't go around saying that going co-ed was a bad thing for his school (which is what Bush did).

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/incidents2.shtml

"Bush mentioned something about Yale University, from which he graduated in 1968. Novick graduated from Yale in 1983, so she brought it up, thinking it would be "like a bonding thing."

"When did you graduate?" Bush asked her, as she recalls. She told him. That's when Bush told her that Yale "went downhill since they admitted women."

"I said, 'Excuse me?'" Novick says. "I thought he was kidding. But he didn't seem to be kidding."


http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/01/bush/print.html

[wryter2000]

9. Ah-ha!

I wasn't sure about Yale when Bush went. I never heard that quote. thanks! :yourock:

[devilgrrl]

14. I'm amused that the media bothered to find this out...

what a shame that they don't bother to find out if anything Scott McClellen spews is true or not.

[DS1]

16. Duh! The wingers will just say that he should have never joined an

all-male college.