Ha! I don't think that it was related to meeting women at all. There's actually plenty of opportunities at Yale and outside our castle walls and moats to meet women, especially with the aphoristic statistic: "1 in 4, maybe more," in reference to our gay male population. We are sometimes referred to as the "Gay Ivy." So competition for women isn't incredibly strong.

Usually with my presence in my gender study classes as well as at the Women's Center I prefer to sort of shut off my sexual drive, even if this is realistically implausible. But I recognize that my presence may be questionable, so I feel that the safest way to approach the situation and make myself not be a threat in any way is to never start anything romantic with anyone I encounter in these environments. Basically it just comes down to separating business from pleasure.

As to why it's my major: Many of these classes help us understand something which we take for granted and then help us think about it critically. As soon as you're jerked screaming from the womb someone spanks you and says, "It's a boy" or "It's a girl," and from then on your whole existence is built around this. Do you just leave it at that or do you examine more closely something that seems to be incredibly important to who we are? All of us need to think about to this stuff in order to create a more equal-opportunity society, not just along gender lines--because these courses don't end there--but also along race, class, and roles. I hear things every day that make me reconsider how I want to approach the future.