Jessie is home for Christmas vacation Winter Break, but she still doesn’t have time to blog. Maybe after all the grad school applications are done I can lure her back, but by then she’ll be in the throes of her honors thesis. Leaving home early, leaving the blog … oh the joys of parenthood.
But she did make an observation today about Bryn Mawr that was so pathetically humorous, or funnily pathetic, that I asked her to interrupt her absence and blog it. She demurred, but asked me to post it for her. So:
Jessie has been so caught up in her work that, in addition to not having enough time to blog, she hasn’t closely followed the sorts of things that the blogs she used to read cover. As a result I had to explain to her exactly what an “affirmative action bake sale” is.
She commented immediately that Bryn Mawr could never have one.
“Why not?” I asked.
“Because,” she said, “no one would understand the parody. Everyone would think that it’s perfectly normal to charge different prices based on race, ethnicity, and sex.”
This side of parodies
Jessie Rosenberg, home from college for what used to be called the Christmas break, explains why it would be a waste of time to hold one of those affirmative-action bake…