Yeah, I was trying to think of something that was actually ridiculous and OTT and realized that, depressingly, they have done all these studies FOR REALS.
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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Nora Deirdre - Mar 26, 2010 8:57:45 am PDT #14070 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Ginger - Mar 26, 2010 9:04:00 am PDT #14071 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There were news reports a while ago that women now make up more than half the students enrolled in college - which is news because until after my generation a common attitude was that girl's didn't need to go to college.
When I went to Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt was still officially accepting one woman for every three men. There were still professors on campus who had been known in earlier to address classes as "Gentlemen and others." Vanderbilt went through a strange evolution. The charter didn't specify the sex of the students, and there were always women there, accepted as "special students," and comprising up to 20 percent of the student body. When the board decided in the '60s to officially admit women, it apparently feared a tidal wave of women students who would swamp their traditions and also, more practically, make them build more dorms. (There was considerable discussion about changing the "sex ratio" when I was there, and one of our more common typos on the student newspaper was to write about changing the sex ration.)
amych - Mar 26, 2010 9:29:16 am PDT #14072 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
changing the sex ration
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
(were there ration coupons?)
Jessica - Mar 26, 2010 9:30:13 am PDT #14073 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
IIRC, the proportion of women to men currently attending college is roughly equal to the proportion of women to men in the general population. Men are outnumbered in school because men are outnumbered in the birth rate.
Dana - Mar 26, 2010 9:31:56 am PDT #14074 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Men are outnumbered in school because men are outnumbered in the birth rate.
And this is clearly a massive problem that Someone should do Something about.
Daisy Jane - Mar 26, 2010 9:34:27 am PDT #14075 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I have seriously had someone look me in the face and tell me that the reason women outnumbering men in college is a Very Bad Thing is that women have other ways of moving up the ladder, namely, marrying up the ladder. Cause that's the same as having opportunity. Again @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ forever.
flea - Mar 26, 2010 9:36:07 am PDT #14076 of 30000
information libertarian
Not so, Jessica - generally more boys are born than girls: [link]
Jessica - Mar 26, 2010 9:36:30 am PDT #14077 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The hell?? Because being married to a CEO is exactly the same as BEING a CEO. Just ask Betty Draper.
Jessica - Mar 26, 2010 9:36:57 am PDT #14078 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, huh. I wonder where I picked that up, then.
smonster - Mar 26, 2010 9:37:12 am PDT #14079 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
And this is clearly a massive problem that Someone should do Something about.
Import men from China, where they have the opposite problem?
nevermind