Chapter Six
While idealism is required to initiate the slog toward change, without a healthy dose of realism about human nature and the types of societies we’ve constructed around ourselves, any progress is doomed.
–Dr. Abigail Rosen, The F Word: Femininity in the New Century
Carol had imagined that starting graduate school would be akin to a major life event like losing her virginity, finding her first gray hair, or finally learning to cha-cha. But frankly, not much changed. She didn’t move from her ant-infested apartment two blocks from the social science building, and her roommates, Grace and Dan, were still in a relationship that always struck Carol as having incestuous overtones. They were both short and a bit stocky, had stick-straight hair and faces round as pie plates; they alwa
