Kathy
I fight back; I get even intelligently. I attended a small-minded Southern university to study forestry. The full scholarship was nice, but the attitudes there were ridiculous. The male students didn't believe that a woman could be a competent forester, and the female students didn't do much to change their minds. For my senior presentation, however, I got the attention of the forestry professors, the students, and the staff of the entire campus. After the other students (men and women) finished their presentations on issues we had hacked to death during the four years of schooling, I presented my study of gender discrimination in the natural resources professions, backed up by some disturbing local facts. I let everyone know that no women had graduated from the university with a forestry degree until 1979; since then, only four more had finished the degree (my presentation was in 1993). For the remainder of my time at the university, the adults treated me much more respectfully than they had during the years before. The rednecks thought I was just a bitch, but hey, they thought that I should never have been allowed into the university either.
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