Bridget Jones generation 'to blame for breakdown of the family'
The collapse of the family is being driven by a 'Bridget Jones generation' of well-educated young women who cannot find a suitable match, a senior Conservative claimed yesterday.
Shadow universities secretary David Willetts said that, for the first time, more women than men were gaining degrees - meaning many struggled to find a partner with an academic background and career prospects like their own.
With fewer men able to 'bring home the bacon', Britain was seeing 'the collapse in the economic circumstances that hold families together'.
So it's women's fault that more women than men get degrees?
eta: Argh! A 'then/than' error!
If you need economic circumstances to hold families together, they weren't very strong to begin with, were they?
I suppose I could paste this link to an 'Engrish' translation of the
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Oh, my god, it is 8:30, and my phone has rung SIX TIMES. Stop calling me, people! I haven't even had breakfast yet.
Gawker does its part to get people to notice the McCain gambling Times article: [link]
OK, I did the thing I was supposed to do on Friday, and now I feel like I'm just done. And I can't decide if it's tacky to have the leftovers from the breakfast for the meeting for my lunch.
Another quote from that article:
'For the first time, in a historic experiment in our society, we have more women than men emerging from university. The majority of young people not in education, employment or training are men.
'Of course the world is changing, and it's fantastic it is. But the fact is that even if men want to be the breadwinner, they are no longer being given the opportunity of being the breadwinner.
Huh? Those men had the opportunity to go to college, right? So is this guy saying that men without college degrees should earn more money than women with degrees?
It's those ballbusting women emasculating our men!
Sure! Why not!?
I'm not sure "fault" is the right word here, but yeah, why wouldn't it be?
Where I take issue is the idea that women having JOBS that require EDUCATION is causing society to suddenly implode in a fiery ball of gender issues.
I'm cold and my head hurts. Neither or which are my fault.
