Another ladies’ night, not by choice.
After midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group of sorority women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into the corner booth of a gritty basement bar. Bathed in a neon glow, they splashed beer from pitchers, traded jokes and belted out lyrics to a Taylor Swift heartache anthem thundering overhead. As a night out, it had everything ”” except guys.
“This is so typical, like all nights, 10 out of 10,” said Kate Andrew, a senior from Albemarle, N.C. The experience has grown tiresome: they slip on tight-fitting tops, hair sculpted, makeup just so, all for the benefit of one another, Ms. Andrew said, “because there are no guys.”
North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel eerily like women’s colleges. Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. Researchers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment skews higher among older students, low-income students, and black and Hispanic students.
Why would most guys [i]want[/i] to spend four years in academia? That environment is often quite hostile to males, most particularly white Christian males.
the feminists are increasingly getting what they want, yet women generally don’t appear to like the practical consequences. I can only conclude that the entire premise of the feminist agenda is corrosive to our culture.
My recent observations are that young women (the ones that “decide” they are straight – and that’s an interesting phenomenon, itself) are selecting potential mates early – freshmen year or even before college entry, and doing all they can to keep them from rivals until graduation and career. That would keep the pool of “available” males low.
Perhaps this article is meant as a subtle recruiting tactic towards young men as the second round of college apps are due. In all, though, I agree with the first two comments: be careful what you ask for, you may get it.
My undergraduate college was about 7:1 men-to-women. The dynamics were, needless to say, rather different than this article describes.