Is it normal to feel isolated in this situation?

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Right now I'm enrolled in a program that's historically been predominantly female, with males being in the minority. I'm in a class of roughly 20 people; all are female. I'm the only guy in the class. At times when I'm in the class, I feel... isolated. I feel as if I'm right back in high school but for a different reason. I've gotten used to it but there are days where I wonder why I was put in this position.

The girls in my class are nice, and I've never had an issue with them, but I feel they've bonded rather quickly, and have done so with relative ease, and here I am on the sidelines, wondering why there isn't another guy in my class. I feel like a foreign object.

That being said, whenever we do partner activities, I do so regularly with one female in my class, and it helps me because I don't like feeling like an outcast.. again. So I'm thankful for that.

But I still feel as if I don't belong there; that I went to the wrong place. Is it normal to feel like this?

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  • Ellenna
    8 years ago

    You say "put in this position": presumably you chose the course knowing it was in a female dominated field?

    You are fortunate in experiencing something women in male dominated areas have encountered for a long long long time so you now have an insight most men don't have.

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  • jeremybrown50k
    8 years ago

    Go to a gay club then!

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  • Steve2.00
    8 years ago

    What is the class? That might help us answer your question.

    While a gender imbalance in a class can make one feel uncomfortable, your task is to study the subject at hand, not to fool around with your classmates.

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    • thegypsysailor
      8 years ago

      Since you aren't capable of ..
      Why do you insist on giving advice on a subject you admittedly have zero experience with? Wouldn't someone with an IQ as low as 80 know better than to try to pull that off?

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      • Steve2.00
        8 years ago

        Wouldn't someone with a yacht anchored in a tropical paradise with a hot wife on board have better things to do than bitch and make false claims about someone else's IQ online all day?

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        • skilful_soldier6
          8 years ago

          You are a fat asshole with no friends.

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