#TeamHerCampus
Lately, College Hill has been ablaze with controversy over Her Campus, an international blog with a recently established chapter here at Holy Cross. Her Campus is a women’s blog which features coverage on a number of women’s issues including as its website states, “Style, Beauty, Health, Love, Life, Career, LGBTQ+, High School, and Real World” and while it has been trying to find itself in its incredibly early stages, progress was just not quick enough for some readers.
Last weeks “Opinions Section” saw a controversial article about the blog, which I should remind you started earlier this year and has less than forty articles on it, making hefty claims that the blog was “continuing to knowingly exclude women of other ethnicities, races, or those who are part of the LBGTQ community,” a claim that was tragically not supported by any sort of evidence. The author of the article, who oh by the way could totally write for Her Campus or make her own blog if she wanted, went as far to suggest that “Holy Cross would be better off without Her Campus as of late… [And] at this point Her Campus needs to make a conscious effort to revamp or disband.” Pretty harsh criticism for a blog that, again, JUST STARTED. Many questions have been asked about the opinions piece, such as, “Why not talk to the editors of the site directly rather than lambasting them in public through the school newspaper” and “If you have so many good ideas for how to make Her Campus better why not share them with the editors??” and “Why are you expecting hard hitting social issues to be discussed at length out of the blue on a blog that has a ‘Campus Cuties’ section??” and “Does anyone else see the irony of this girl telling Her Campus to stop giving a voice to women on campus because she doesn’t think its giving a voice to enough women on campus??” So far there are no answers.
The blog accepts and publishes articles from anyone who sends one in. However, it does not appear to publish pictures of their authors, which leads one to wonder how one could figure out that all the authors are white heterosexual females. Unless you use stereotypes and assume that must be the case because of the nature of the blog… hmmm wouldn’t that be something…
Allegations that this blog, which is oh by the way allowed to exist in any damn way the authors please, would deter potential students from attending Holy Cross after seeing how viciously racist and exlusive our students are, so we here at The Eggplant decided to interview prospective students about Her Campus and boy was the article on point. “When I read the ‘An Open Letter To Cool Beans’ article on Holy Cross’ Her Campus page, I just knew that the school must be one where white women run rampant as fascist dictators putting down anyone in their path,” said one prospective student, “Other articles like ‘Late Night Food Culture on the Hill’ and ‘Insta-LAME to Insta-FAME: How To Up Your Insta Game’ sealed the deal that Holy Cross is a revolting academic institution attempting to push stereotypes on its students because only white women eat late at night and use instagram. Never mind the rampant racial and sexual insensitivity that I saw in the article ‘Five Ways to Cure those Rainy Day Blues’ that I found to be so hurtful that it in fact gave me rainy day blues.”
Amidst the controversy and at the recommendation of the opinions article Holy Cross’ Her Campus chapter has decided to close up shop. “We hoped to be a forum where Holy Cross girls could write about their experiences on the hill. However at the recommendation of several people who have no association with our group we have decided to quit,” said one editor, “Rather than continuing to provide an outlet for our writers, whose lives and stories are just as valid as anyone else’s, we decided we’re just gonna quit. It was fun running a fascist regime putting down people who don’t see eye to eye with us but now that you guys caught on we’re just gonna have to give up.” This author for one is glad that these horribly mean women are being silenced.