Jezebel: Wellesley

Women's Colleges Promote Sweatpants & Poor Tampon Hygiene, Says Wesleyan Student

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:33:00 EDT

As a graduate of Wellesley College, I thought going to a women's college was about receiving an excellent education at an institution that's mission is to promote gender equality. Now a Wesleyan undergrad has opened my eyes to the horrors of single-sex education. How could I have failed to notice my fellow students "almost literally screaming 'Death to the Patriarchy!' all day, every day," and the "bloody tampons strewn all over the bathroom floor"? Unless of course, these are just ridiculous generalizations from someone who's unhappy with her personal experience at a women's college. More »

Women's College Told It Needs "Real Men" As Reps (Updated)

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST

HerCampus.com is holding a competition for "Mr. Wellesley Freshman" at the women's college. Though transgender men attend Wellesley, HerCampus nominated men from other colleges to represent the school, since a transgender male obviously can't be the hottest guy on campus. More »

Madame, Speaker

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:10:00 EST

[Wellesley, Massachusetts; February 3, 1992. Image via Getty]

Oh Yeah? Male Student Calls Wellesley Women "Bunch Of Whores"

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:40:00 EST

Proving that douche-y idiots are everywhere is Jeremy Pham, a male student at Wellesley College - alma mater of Hillary Clinton, among other notables - whose recent misogynistic outburst started a minor firestorm - and may have gotten Pham expelled. More »

Can It, Camille

Jessica G. — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:30:00 EDT

Camille Paglia's hatred of Hillary Clinton has been well-documented in American publications, but, not content to keep her vitriol to one continent, Paglia has written a screed entitled "Why Women Shouldn't Vote For Hillary Clinton" for the Telegraph. Paglia includes her customary insults towards Hillary's looks ("Frumpy, stumpy and myopic, she identified with the new idolatry of shiny careerism promulgated by the second-wave feminism of the late 1960s, when she emerged from posh Wellesley College"), accuses Clinton of "anti-male rhetoric" and concludes, "If Hillary loses, batten the hatches against a mass resurrection of paranoid, paleo-feminist martyrs, counting their wounds and wailing at the blood-red moon." Oh yes, Camille. Beware those evil feminist werewolves! They're out to destroy us all, you know. [Telegraph] More »

Young Feminists Can't Decide Between Obama & Clinton

dodai — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST

At Wellesley college, Hillary Clinton's alma mater, young women are split on the Clinton vs. Obama issue, The Washington Post reports. For instance: Katie Chanpong and Aubre Carreon Aguilar are both feminists and political activists. "If you're a woman, you vote for Hillary because of what it means to women everywhere," says Ms. Chanpong, a sophomore. Ms. Aguilar, a senior, says: "If I'm supposed to vote for Hillary just because I'm a woman, that's kind of sexist." The female-only school finds many of its students are having to decide what it means to be a feminist, writes Eli Saslow. "Do you vote for a woman to shatter the glass ceiling and further the cause? Or do you make an empowered, individual decision that is not confined by gender?" Ona Keller, the co-president of Wellesley College Democrats, is "hard-core Wellesley." She wears vintage ERA T-shirts, calls incoming students first-years instead of freshmen. "Everybody who knows me thinks of me as a feminist," Ms. Keller says. "Nobody imagined I wouldn't vote for Clinton." More »