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I will just say that it started with looking at the list of people from BYU admitted to medical school, and seeing this growing list I noticed that there were almost no women on the list. I can't remember the total number--130 people or so, maybe more. There were 3 female names. I'm not going to share my entire history here, but suffice it to say that I became extremely confident, as I poked around further, that women were being discouraged from going into medicine at BYU. You have to be very naive to find this surprising. |
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05-13-2009, 08:08 PM | #32 | |
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What I see and hear from these girls RIGHT NOW is a very different picture from the one you are painting. Maybe I am unaware of what kind of repression these girls have had to face; if so, enlighten me, please.
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I spoke to many women who provided me with the specifics of how they had been actively discouraged. |
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My experience shows me something different than what your experience shows you. I'd be happy to hear your perspective. I'm not just going to take your word for it.
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For reasons that I do not care to explain, I do not wish to discuss how I came to know things, what I did about it, and the aftermath.
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Very good. Thanks.
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05-13-2009, 08:50 PM | #39 |
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My reason for not wanting to explain has nothing to do with AA.
I was naive enough to think that I could do something about it. In the end, I decided not to act, because I thought it was unfair for the few to be punished, when the many were guilty. So instead of tackling the many, I gave up, and moved on with my life. Leaving, no doubt, enemies seething in the wake. |
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I'll concede that there are incidents where bright, capable, and talented LDS women with bright futures were discouraged from pursuing their dreams and encouraged to be a stay at home mom instead. I'm not convinced that such episodes are so common as to constitute institutional repression, nor that such women will inevitably face it.
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