Gacked from kass: A letter from a Smith alumna bemoaning the college's policy of increasing diversity is posted to the Smith College Sophian:

The people who are attending Smith these days are A) lesbians or B) international students who get financial aid or C) low-income women of color who are the first generation in their family to go to college and will go to any school that gives them enough money. Carol emphasizes that this is one of her goals, and so that's why the school needs more money for scholarships or D) white heterosexual girls who can't get into Ivy League schools.

I can tell you that the days of white, wealthy, upper-class students from prep schools in cashmere coats and pearls who marry Amherst men are over. This is unfortunate because it is this demographic that puts their name on buildings, donates great art and subsidizes scholarships.



I have to say, being something of a connoisseur of asshattery, that this is prime stuff. We've got homophobia, classism, racism, and xenophobia all wrapped up in cashmere and pearls, and topped off by a cunning hat fashioned of smug ignorance and privilege.

The response from the Smith community, however, has been beyond awesome: the Pearls and Cashmere Tumblr, celebrating Smith diversity.

There's also this gem of a comment from the Jezebel article, which deserves special mention for awesomeness:

Dear Place I Spent My Youth,

Things are not as good as they were when I was young, because my youth was the Best Time Ever.

I would like the world to reward me for my circumstances, despite the fact that I had nothing to do with them. They are still mine and I demand validation for them. Life is a game I won it, can't you see that? Everyone loves me, or is intimidated by me, which means that everything is the way it should be.

The fact that you have shown approval to people who do not look like me, act like me, and are clearly not Life Winners like me hurts my feelings. Make them go away and restore my sense of superiority.

If you carry on including people based on their ability to thrive in an academic environment instead of their upper-class status, I will no longer be able to lord my credentials over other people. This will not stand.

Keep putting the cunt in country club,
Selfish Racist Homophobic Narcissist

Dear Jezebel commenter: ALL THE AWARDS. XD

TL;DR: Smith College Community WINS, Asshat Alumna LOSES