We all know someone who has taken a women's studies class during their time in college. Maybe you've taken one yourself! I'm currently suffering my way through one right now.
What?! Hold the phone.
A woman doesn't enjoy a women's class? Is she anti-progress? Is she... a social conservative?!
Take a breath everyone. People just make me laugh.
Here are the six people you're bound to meet in a WOMS class.
1. The girl who has had lots of life experiences and likes to brag about it.
All righty, sweetheart. We don't need to hear for the 10th time about how you've lived in six different countries and speak four different languages. We get it. You're God's gift to the world and are so much more cultured than us. Please do inform me on where in all that culture you decided it was OK to wear a tail to class.
2. The token guy who is taking this class for a breadth requirement.
Dude, I feel so sorry for you. You signed up for this class hoping that you could just sit through and stay quiet and not have to get your tongue bit off if you make the wrong comment. But your Midwest professor had other plans for the class... wait for it... discussion groups! Cue the groan. You can do it. I have faith in you.
3. The minority.
You're a wonderful person. I wish everyone wouldn't look at you with a pitying gaze when you talk about your role in your family/culture. That's your culture and it's what you grew up on. I appreciate that you had the guts to take a progressive women's class that deals with issues that may differ from how you were raised.
4. The meninist.
If you say one more time "why isn't there a 'men's studies' class," I think some girls in here are going to spontaneously combust. "That's called history." [Cue the death glare.]
5. The srat girl.
You and your Lily Pulitzer laptop stickers, Patagonia jackets, water bottles with your letters on them, and your brand new Bean Boots. I see you. I hope you learn a few things in this class about real sisterhood. Your rush process cannot be compared to a tradition in another culture. Sit down.
6. The quiet observer.
And then there's the rest of us. Here's for the people who sit and listen and nod along. Here's for the people that don't want to offend. This is the majority. We don't want to offend or say the wrong thing. Please don't take off class participation!
