The Role of Gender Divides in Social Spaces
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Question of the Week
What do you think about all-male or all-female social spaces?
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Conversations of Note
Earlier this week, I sent out some of your descriptions of how you interacted with peers in adolescence. Another batch of those responses is coming. But I wanted to single out one response, from Sam (edited for length and clarity):
I’m 51. Graduated from a rural PA high school in 1991. In high school we had a town pool hall run by an old Italian guy. We were allowed to smoke and chew snuff. (There were spittoons.) Lots of
