The College Freshmen Alliance Against Defamation

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For nearly a decade I led an organization that worked to fight stereotypes about gay and lesbian people.?Ǭ† While stereotypes have their roots in reality, relying on them can be disrespectful or worse.

So imagine my horror when I saw my spouse fall into this trap herself.?Ǭ† But her slip up was not about gay and lesbian people.?Ǭ† It was about college freshman.?Ǭ† College freshman guys to be exact.

Scout has now been a college freshman for two months.?Ǭ† In those two months, Scout has lost about 7-8 pounds (clearly she got the whole ?¢‚ǨÀúfreshman 10?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ thing backwards).?Ǭ† On a recent trip home (due to illness), Eileen and I interrogated her about nutrition.?Ǭ† She admits that she is not eating well.

But the dining hall is so nice, Eileen says.?Ǭ† It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s just too big, Scout responds.?Ǭ† There are so many people there all the time.Did she not get the memo that dining halls are big and serve many people??Ǭ† That is in fact why they are called dining halls.

So instead she opts for the small, intimate New York Pizza parlor on Tremont just off Boylston.?Ǭ†?Ǭ†?Ǭ† A lovely place where college students and crackheads meet to eat.

Eileen is nearly apoplectic at this point.?Ǭ† She sees feeding her children well as one of the reasons she is here.?Ǭ†?Ǭ† She begins to spin out.?Ǭ† Oh, and you hang out with those college guys at Northeastern and they have their own apartment.?Ǭ†?Ǭ† How much pizza and beer can you consume?

There it was.?Ǭ† The stereotype.?Ǭ† All college guys eat pizza and drink beer.

Scout is momentarily speechless (emphasis on word ?¢‚ǨÀúmomentarily?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢).?Ǭ† Is that what you think??Ǭ† She is now indignant.?Ǭ†?Ǭ† I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ll have you know that I was at their apartment the other night and they made dinner, she harrumphs.?Ǭ† The guys made stuffed shrimp!

Eileen has been put in her place.?Ǭ† Shame on her.?Ǭ† Eileen, who is in many ways very very responsible for igniting a passion for cooking in young men with her years as the programming chief at Food Network.

She asks quietly.?Ǭ† How was the stuffed shrimp?

Oh, Scout says.?Ǭ† They weren?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t cooking for all of us so a bunch of us went out for pizza.

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