Yes.

Although the situation is slightly less funny when the dude is your own brother. Sigh.

YEAH THIS IS AWESOME

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE MURDEROUS GRANDMA ARTICLE http://www.vice.com/read/my-gandma-the-poisoner-0... https://twitter.com/mallelis/status/5278955292469...

Yep yep yep. Current (cis queer) Barnard student here. The real threat to a women's college's identity (as an institution geared toward subverting patriarchy through education) isn't the presence of a few men on campus, but the transphobic policy of not admitting trans women. Like you said below, 100% female is not part of the picture--we're one of four undergraduate colleges at Columbia, so our classes, dining halls, dorms, athletics, extracurriculars, etc have students from both sides of the street--but that doesn't mean that we're any less of a women's college. Asking trans men (the feministing article doesn't mention nonbinary students, which I found odd) to leave is a different kind of transphobic policy, but it would undermine our attempt to create a safer space in the same way. I'm friends with some of the trans and nonbinary students here (no, they're not entitled assholes), and I can't imagine not wanting them to be part of our community.

This conversation is definitely happening on campus right now. Students are advocating for trans inclusivity and some of our initiatives, like making sure there are gender inclusive bathroom in every building, have been successful, but we've had more pushback from the administration on the admittance policy (cue me shaking my fist, muttering "typical neoliberal corporate feminism").

Last tear our student govt association invited Dean Spade, (a law prof, trans activist, and alum) to a town hall last year to talk about it and he said a lot of really smart things about the whole issue. (Videos and write up here: http://bcrw.barnard.edu/blog/dean-spade-on-trans-... Basically, he explained that the college should be a place for all gender oppressed people (read: everyone but cis men, which I think @ginkotree mentioned upthread), and I totally agree. I don't think it's essentialist to say that trans men experience gender-based discrimination and violence, not because they're "really women" but because they're outside the cis masculine norm (like @blushingflower also said upthread).

Basically: don't worry women's college alums. current students are ON IT. (But also: tell the alumnae office what you think, because, really, they only care about the cash).

YUP. See:
“Dear Listeners...": The Utopia of the Absurd in Welcome to Night Vale
and
“Like a mermaid in a ship's cabin”: The Wild Human and Domestic Animal in Housekeeping
what does it mean? WHO KNOWS

Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot WERE dicks.

My only question is: did the server get married in the middle of the first conversation? Or is she having drinks with her boyfriend and her husband? (In either case: I relate.)

He sounds like the kind of dude who would give his fiancee an ultimatum about taking his name after the wedding