Letter to the Editor

Men have problems, too

I must say, to start, that I am a woman. Even as such, I have to agree that the study of men and their societies is a valid cause.

All of you venemous women who wrote in should slap yourselves on the wrists. If you do not wish to understand why men decide to hovel themselves away from women in soceity — into their fraternities and cigar-smoking country clubs — how do you ever expect to undermine such institutions?

I am a bit of a feminist myself, but I do find it a bit unnerving that we don't have a men's studies department. We send these boys to war, we hit them (women hit men more than men hit women: true fact); we charge them with more serious crimes than a woman (though the crimes may be the same); and we are more likely to judge them as unfit parents because they lack maternal instinct.

Why not give them their own department? Though it is harder to rape a guy, men too get raped.

Unfortunately they usually get raped by the boyfriends of their drugged-out mothers.

I would love to hear poetry from the vantage point of a penis. Why not? Perhaps we have something to learn from the male genitalia — undoubtedly just as much as we have learned from the screaming vagina kissers on free speech lane.

So Ethan, I'll come watch your penis monologues. I'll even donate money for a cause to benefit men who have been screamed at by their evil wives, and I'll love every minute of it.

—Alysa Beth Winterton
Senior, biology