…whom I overheard discussing Title IX settlements and who actually utter the words, “Women go to college to study and find a man“:
My niece is going on 14 years old, and when she goes to college—and she will go to college, because she is a smart, gifted young woman—she will be going to study, hopefully play soccer (because she is not even in high school and she’s already playing on the varsity team; seriously, girl is the next Mia Hamm), and prepare herself for a career so that she will not feel forced to marry some mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging Neanderthal like yourself.
It’s too bad today was a cardio day, otherwise I might have had occasion to drop a dumbbell on your foot.
Please give my condolences to your daughter and your wife. Men like you don’t grow on trees, do they? They usually swing from them.
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November 2, 2007 at 11:37 am
When I chose to go to a women’s college, my father actually asked me, “But how will you find a man to marry.” And he was a guy who really belived that I was smarter, stronger, and more independent than most anyone.
These kinds of preconceived notions are bred deep.
Although even as I write this I realized that he was probably hoping I’d meet a new guy and dump my future husband so his baby girl wouldn’t move away and live the military wife life. But still…
November 2, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Get it out there, Miz Julia!
November 2, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Unfortunately, I’ve met a few Sorority twitlings here at the Ooh of Ahh that have said that’s why they’re in college (to meet a potential husband). One of the many reasons why I loathe the Greek system.
November 2, 2007 at 5:30 pm
er…make that “…Sorority…”
I also changed “maney” to “many” — unless, of course, you were making a crack about their hair, in which case I can change it back….
November 2, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Like Lee, I too sadly knew some girls in college who attended solely to find a husband. To quote one:
“My advisor asked me, ‘Why are you majoring in religion? You’re getting abysmal grades and keep telling me it bores you…’ I told him: ‘Yeah, it does bore me, but I’m not here to learn. I’m here to find a husband.’”
And she was dead serious… Yikes.
James/Lee: I can’t tell you how repugnant I find that. I don’t begrudge anyone the chance to find a spouse, but these sheep have taken spots in a class away from students who may have actually — oh, I don’t know — wanted to LEARN SOMETHING.
November 4, 2007 at 1:54 am
Re: Maney….yes, thanx for catching that. I missed it completely.
I find it completely repugnant as well. I also lived in a couple of apartment complexes that were filled with Greek system brats. LAWDY! I hated the majority of them. Rich, spoiled little bastards who didn’t care much beyond their checking accounts, gettin’ laid, and drinking.
I have this fantasy of them running into Irma Munson…