sarah jeong

Every year, women at the law school organize meetings around “rape week”—the week in crim law we talk about rape.

the meetings basically consist of “Soooooo people are going to get triggered, here’s how you can help and/or not get triggered”

take every awful law student trait and throw them into a Socratic discussion about whether or not this rape case was rightly decided

*Yeah.*

and then once a professor compared mixed-race people to dogs at the pound, which he meant in a good way (“mutts are the best!”) but omg

Law school classrooms are incredibly unsafe spaces. And the HLS environment is particularly toxic. Am I entitled to a safe classroom? No.

But it’s so obvious why student body demographics play out the way they do.

If you’re not a white man, your spirit is going to take a much harder pummeling.

anyways, suck it, Kennedy School, you don’t know problems

Even the Business School is more sensitive to how its teaching methods disparately impact gender, than the Law School is, right now

I made it through with enough privilege as a cushion and enough of a thick skin to not be bothered.

But it kills me to know that the law school is going to keep paying lip service to diversity while ignoring problems inside the classroom

As I leave, other WOC will arrive, and many of them will have to see and learn the things I did

The administration has been extraordinarily unreceptive to student-led efforts to address HLS toxicity.

And by that, I mean, they won’t even cooperate with efforts to study / produce numbers regarding disparate impact. As basic as that.

~this has been your daily finals-period rant~ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯