Where is The Post’s ethics department on Bentley Weisel, the obviously freshman Thursday columnist and her uninspiring and unthoughtful recurring spewing of naivety in regards to boy and girl relationships?
Where is Mallory Long and her outgoing gender equity activism? Where is Wesley Lowery and his expertise in African American studies — a movement based in the same principles and sharing the same goals as the women’s movement: to banish stereotypes and raise awareness of a damning social stigma?
For five weeks, Weisel has stuffed a narrow-minded perspective down the throats of readers, sometimes even blatantly disregarding that “many are going… to dispute” her claims.
As a female she undoubtedly counts in her demographic for “Bent on Boys,” I can’t relate in any way to anything Weisel has ever written.
Her assertions that, 1. Girls are inherently more needy than boys in relationships; 2. Boys and girls cannot be friends and; 3. that women should aim to fit one of the four desired stereotypes, among others, only make me very sad that any progressive female on our college campus has these ideas and moreover, that she is able to publicize and therefore influence such a pathetic point of view.
I sometimes wonder if maybe, Weisel is being satirical: Surely no one can seriously claim that generalizing an entirely inhomogeneous student population into four categories is accurate. Alas, she fails me in adding “I do not think it would be a horrible or inaccurate representation.”
These terrible assumptions of an entire gender are uncomplimentary to what so many women have taught and have advocated on our campus; they are embarrassing representations of a group already too easily labeled as the weaker sex.
My personal qualms with larger scale venues such as Cosmopolitan magazine, created to be the women’s compliment to Playboy, and obviously For Him magazine garner the same argument; women are contributing to their own damnation. It should be stopped at its inception, as a freshman column at The Post.
Stephanie Stark is a junior studying magazine journalism and a former writer for The Post.
