04-30-2013, 05:17 PM
Maddow's accounts of her time at Stanford have sometimes been positive and sometimes less so. She has previously said that the environment at Stanford was not friendly for gay students when she was a student. It took her 19 years to make it back to campus.
Using Gallup's figure of 3.5% of the population identifying as gay, one would expect about 60 gay students in a class. From the comments in this thread, it sounds like very few were open about it. Seems like a gay student would feel very isolated. Her memories were probably not helped by an incident involving Stanford athletes that occured near the end of her time there. (She may have already left when the incident occured. She is listed as '94 but says she left campus early.) See links in following story:
http://www.outsports.com/2012/6/11/40532...ride-award
I don't see how giving an account of how she see's her experiences serves to marginalize anyone else's. She has a bigger soap box than most. I don't think that's a reason for her to clam up.
Using Gallup's figure of 3.5% of the population identifying as gay, one would expect about 60 gay students in a class. From the comments in this thread, it sounds like very few were open about it. Seems like a gay student would feel very isolated. Her memories were probably not helped by an incident involving Stanford athletes that occured near the end of her time there. (She may have already left when the incident occured. She is listed as '94 but says she left campus early.) See links in following story:
http://www.outsports.com/2012/6/11/40532...ride-award
I don't see how giving an account of how she see's her experiences serves to marginalize anyone else's. She has a bigger soap box than most. I don't think that's a reason for her to clam up.