Yeah, it's a bitch and it's horrible, but the only good thing is that it is changing. Women hold positions of power, women can own their sexuality (or at least more than they did), gay marriage is on the political agenda in the States. There are other people on our side, and we'll change the world.

No, seriously. One of my classmates in Speech asked me if I'd go to Homecoming with another classmate I've spoken to all once. I said that I'd say no. He was very confused about this, and didn't get why I'd turn Chris down if he asked. I don't know, because I don't know anything more about him than his name?

You might talk to Noldo. She's on her way home (California, that is), now, I think, but she's been in a socially far more conservative culture for a month. The limitation on good Indian girls - because it is about girls, not women, who are in control of their own lives - are extremely scary.