Student’s Op-Ed Explains How Her Whole Day Is Ruined by Sexist Oppression

The National Review reports:

In a piece titled “The struggle to be taken seriously in the age of subtle sexism,” University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill student Blake Dodge chronicled an entire day of the sexist “routine occurrences” that she claims make her “feel less human.” “Less human”? Whoa. That sounds serious. I wonder, just what are these horrific “occurrences”? Thankfully, she spends nearly 800 words in the News & Observer explaining them: First, she has to put on spandex to run even though she knows it will allow her “legs to chafe” because she doesn’t “have a thigh gap like most of the distance runners” on her team. Then, she eats an “easily-digestible carb” for breakfast and makes “note of the calorie count.” (The unreasonable body-image standards set by the patriarchy clearly forced her to eat breakfast this way. She probably wanted a bagel instead, but it is not her fault that she could not eat one. It’s institutional sexism’s.) When she’s getting dressed, she has to be “careful not to wear too much ‘Carolina gear’” to class. If she does, she worries, her “professors and peers” might “discount” her.

Even though a majority of students on campus are women: there's still endless enemies lurking everyone.