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Bio Class

Submitted by Terrible2s on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 6:02pm.

So in bio class we started to talk about that runner (who's name escapes me) who might have her medals taken away because she might not be classified as a woman "officially."

It was a very interesting conversation because the class didn't know how to discuss the issue and many people came from a very conservative and intolerant perspective. I find it so interesting that the moment I stepped out of GenSex it seemed like the "real world" or people who don't get it, or don't want to. Was it because it was a bio class? Was it just an intolerant group of people? Or is it the bigger universal problem that people just are ignorant?

I was just so surprised to find the same topic be spoken about in such a different manner. On Bryn Mawrs campus at that! I'm scared for the world...

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