Is “The Vagina Monologues” an all-too-real metaphor for college campus life? In a Sunday Styles article the New York Times probes the consequences of gender imbalance at colleges across the country. Since 2000, women have made up at least 57 percent of college students nationwide. Female-heavy college campuses mean men can be more discerning (read: douchey), and still end up controlling the dating scene, or lack thereof. Women can’t seem to get a break. The article argues since men are in control, interactions between the sexes tend to consist of emotionless hook ups. Is this true of Northwestern?
Even though NU undergraduates are just 52.4 percent female (according to the Princeton Review), hook-up culture still trumps the dating idea (we’ve read too many wan diatribes about the lack of romance here not to agree). So why don’t girls have more say at NU? After all, College Prowler rated NU guys a sorry C+, while the girls earned a respectable (if questionable) B. Add the Greek barometer—sororities at NU are much more popular than fraternities, a middling if consequential indication of overall sociability—may be the real root of the problem at NU. “Almost all agree that the girls are more attractive than the men, on the whole, and some wonder whether this kills the dating scene,” the Prowler writes. Our ultimate solution? An infusion of metros. Maybe waxed eyebrows, mani-pedis and weekly facials can solve our disaster of a dating scene.
Maybe this is why I don’t have a boyfriend? Thank you for giving me an excuse, Jeff.
No significant change from Brook’s “Organization Kid” (2001)
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200104/brooks