"scarce" resources, college and sexism

[rm]

And then there's this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23britz.html

It's the sort of thing that makes it hard for me to imagine any world in which women, at least as a group, don't always lose.

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[weirdquark]

Women's colleges need better marketing.

To be fair, when I was looking at colleges, I didn't really want to go somewhere where the gender balance was off either -- I wanted to either go to a women's college or somewhere where the gender ratio was reasonably even. I don't remember why I was thinking this way, but now it feels like going somewhere that the gender balance was off would create an atmosphere where the women would feel like they were competing for dates because men were a scarce resource instead of good grades, and that's not something I wanted to deal with -- at a women's college, you kind of assume everyone there isn't interested in competing for men. I ended up going to a women's college, and it was awesome. I still live with some of the women I met there and am going to continue doing so.

But most women aren't interested in women's colleges either.

It's funny, because one of the arguments I've heard against women's colleges is that the world is co-ed -- and yeah, it is, but women outnumber men at least three to one where I work, so it's not like life is always going to be fifty-fifty either.