Here I found myself surrounded by no small band of girl students, each wanting to give her opinion. One of them returns to what our first university girl mentioned before her, and says that what she holds against university life is the silly mentality of some young men, which says that a girl's place is the home and that she must not cross its threshold. But this student of ours catches herself and says, addressing her words to the young men: Is not a girl able to manage the affairs of her home if she is cultivated and educated? Does her occupation keep her from merging into her greater occupation? The answer lies with our educated ladies...
They prefer the separation of the sexes, even on the garden paths
From there I walked to the library, making for some of the other students, and no sooner had I put my question to one of them than she looked at me out of the corner of her eye and said, curling her lips:
Is there anything more annoying than the camps and gatherings that are held at Faisal's or the "soda fountain"? And then this worn-out, reactionary mentality with which the male student adorns himself, and of which we girl students are made the victims — is it not fitting that I should be annoyed on its account? Nor will I hide from you my great admiration for the university's garden, and then for its professors and teachers, who are equal to the heavy tasks laid upon their shoulders.
I moved on to another and put the same question to her, and she answered me only with this brief sentence: What annoys me at the university is the abundance of empty talk among its men and women students.
And Miss Afaf Bandak, who is specializing in psychology, says:
I admire the bold step the girl has taken in joining the university to complete her higher studies; she has come to share with the young men in every branch of study, and has even given proof of a capacity that entitles her to surpass the young man in many branches of specialization.
From the social side, however, the deficiency is plain to see: the girls keep to themselves in one corner and the young men in another, as though the two parties were at feud. The excess of gravity in the girl has made her create around herself an atmosphere tinged with bashfulness and social prejudice. This comes of environment, and of a lack of sex education from childhood onward.
And now!!... What say the critics and the enviers?... Do they still hold to their opinion that the university girl is to be envied for the life she lives?
Mum
Attractive, bewitching...!
But... she lacks
Mum
Mum
A bouquet of flowers
whose fragrance rises
from the hidden places of your enchanting body