So I should start by saying that I haven’t been at this school for a very long time, and I have found myself eagerly anticipating your articles. I believe they are well written, have great topics, and, most importantly, I feel that they act as a looking glass to life outside of the Bible Belt for college students at State.
I grew up in Mississippi and never felt like I belonged here. Most of this had to do with the conservative nature that the South breeds and limited perspective that most have here; it can be quite suffocating. In this case, articles such as yours serve as a breath of fresh air. It wasn’t until I moved out of Mississippi and met people from other parts of the country did I realize that I didn’t think like a southerner.
I really find it fascinating that the majority of your articles (at least the ones I have read) deal with the “taboo” topic of sex. Though you might receive a good amount of flack for braving these waters so openly, I truly admire it. Most of all because you are a woman, and you are acting as a model for independent women. The lack of openness that I have found with southern females in respect to sex I feel widens the chasm that already exists between men and women. This does not go without saying that it puts the two sexes on a different playing field. We are all human, and (as you so nicely put) tiny people that live in a country where we are supposed to be equal.
We have the right to think equally, act equally and speak equally. Maybe I am wrong in just blaming women here. Maybe the men here are too damn intimidated by a female who isn’t submissive and views herself as an equal human being?
Either way, the cowering attitude most people in the South have toward sex is depressing.
Your insight is very rare to this area but gives me hope that there are other women across the country who operate on a wavelength similar to yours.
Write on.
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Sex conversation articles take bravery
Matt Taylor
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March 2, 2012
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