Hasn't someone optioned The Bell Jar?

I hope the bitches at Agnes Scott start a serious ruckus over this. Short story: like many schools with picturesque campuses, Agnes Scott brings in extra revenue by basically renting out portions of the campus for film shots occasionally. Louisa Hill, guest-blogging at the Bilerico Project, writs a scathing piece about the indignity of having racist, sexist, and heterosexist films being shot in the midst of her supposedly safe learning space for women. What's worse, students eating in the cafeteria were recently recruited by filmmakers to make-out with each other as extras in a film's "Lesbians Until Graduation" scene. Hill writes,

To understand the mindset behind these actions, let's examine how the filmmakers put up signs that said that if we entered certain areas on our campus (including our main quad with our library and humanities building), we were granting the production crew permission to reproduce our images "throughout the universe for all of eternity." This same utter entitlement to our bodies was reproduced in the way that the production team assumed that just because we were on (our own) campus and that we were women, they could recruit us for this degrading "Lesbians until Graduation" scene.

Preach it. It's a good piece, you should read it. We all know about the funding crisis in higher ed; it's responsible for a lot of the things we bitch about on this site. But while we lament the devaluation of teachers and students that results from poorly compensated faculty and shitty resources, we aren't calling for that coffer to be filled through the devaluation of the feminist (and humanist) sensibilities of students (and faculty) on campus. Students shouldn't have to consider making out as extras in a film in order to pay for their library.

(hat tip, you know who you are)