Midway through his daily run last Thursday, Brady (MSB ‘24) came to a startling realization: every monument he’d passed had depicted a man. Confused, he began to look for public displays dedicated to women as he ran back to campus. “I was sure I saw one at the Vietnam War memorial,” he told reporters, “But it was just a tourist standing really still.”

Brady did not immediately make the connection between the monuments and America’s larger problem with sexism. “I just kind of thought that was behind us, you know?” He explained. “I mean, there are just so many famous women now. Like Anne Hathaway in James Bond. And Anne Hathaway in Batman.”

But after talking to his (now ex) girlfriend, he realized that the exclusion of women in society extended beyond the Washington monument. Shaken, he decided to read up on feminism, trying out A Room of One’s Own and The Color Purple before landing on the movie, “Hidden Figures” which he described as, “Kind of boring, but the rockets were cool.”

He even dropped in on a Women and Gender Studies class, staying for 17 minutes (a record among men in the MSB) and speaking over both professor and students in his enthusiasm to demonstrate his newly discovered allyship.

“So I know pretty much everything about feminism now,” Brady explained, disclosing that next semester he plans to TA for the WGST class he dropped in on. He is not concerned about his lack of experience in the field, and added in closing,“Now that I know about the monuments, this woman stuff isn’t that hard.”