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In some ways the idea of having an exclusively "female" institution is archaic. In an ideal world there would not exist such institutions. What is "female" and who are "women" anyway?
But I think the world, and America in particular, changes gradually due to the irrational work of radical people. Most calls for demand a lot of policy makers and narrow-minded Americans--some could even say too much. But what these "radical" people do in asking for an "irrational" amount of change is, slowly, open peoples minds. We had to go from slavery to segregation to racism, and now we are still experiencing racism, but fighting for better. I think in regards to gender and sexuality, we need to make everyone equal before we can redefine "everyone." So we must stay within the confines of the gender binary and improve equality there, before we can expect to have total equality. So let's stay in our all women's institution (sorry hford people) and improve women's rights, and once we have that, we'll go on to get rid of the term "women." Afterall, it's we radicals with irrational ideas who make change.