Scripps College recently decided to expand the purchasing power of flex, allowing students to purchase vibrators and Jellycats with their Board Plus funds. This comes after a Tiernan Field House Peer Educators’ survey showed that 88% of Scripps emails and 100% of conversations included talk of these items (Figure 1).
This phenomenon shows that Scrippsies routinely fail the reverse-Bechdel Test, nicknamed the “Kravis Test,” in which two women converse about something that includes men or business.
Scripps is the only member of the Claremont Colleges without a non-dining hall food option (Motley is drink and bagel crumb), and students have continually expressed interest in Scripps allowing students to use flex dollars at places like The Hub. Scripps isn’t ready to feed its students, but it is listening. “This is an exciting opportunity women have just never had before,” said Dean of Economic Empowerment, Rose Thornton.
Feeling inspired, Claremont McKenna and Harvey Mudd have since begun conversations about expanding their own flex programs to include oil and missile acquisition, respectively. Boy toys are so lame!