University Education & Women

mixedmedia · Jan 28, 2012

1. I'm not buying that the article was serious. It's all too obvious.

2. If it was serious, then I pretty much agree with poetry in principle. BUT, she didn't write the article from the idea that 'this is what I want to do,' but rather 'this is what women should do.' Which is just stupid and rightfully deserving of approbation from anyone who has the inclination to take out the lambast bat.

Baraka_Guru · Jan 28, 2012

mixedmedia said: ↑

1. I'm not buying that the article was serious. It's all too obvious.

2. If it was serious, then I pretty much agree with poetry in principle. BUT, she didn't write the article from the idea that 'this is what I want to do,' but rather 'this is what women should do.' Which is just stupid and rightfully deserving of approbation from anyone who has the inclination to take out the lambast bat.
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This is the thing.

If this article is serious, and a) the female author suggests that forgoing a quality education is what women in principle should do, while b) she writes sentences such as "I believe that every girl should marry every guy that is rich so they never have to work," then c) it should come as no surprise that there are those who wish to pull out their lambast bat.

I'd like to see every girl try to marry every rich guy. I really would. It could be like a contest to see who can get the most. Maybe a reality show?

roachboy · Jan 28, 2012

by setting every girl on every rich boy, that article reduces my already slim chances of life optimization. harumph.

ASU2003 · Jan 28, 2012

A lot of girls already play the find a rich guy (or who has a rich family) game.

Plan9 · Jan 28, 2012

roachboy said: ↑

by setting every girl on every rich boy, that article reduces my already slim chances of life optimization. harumph.
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...at least you have a beard.

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My problem with this post--aside from Obvious Troll is Obvious--is that are there really that many dudes out there that want a Real Doll that shits?

I think not. I think if my partner wanted to be a stay-at-home fuck toy I would quickly tire of dumping money into an orifice instead of a sidekick.

SCBronco · Feb 2, 2012

Baraka_Guru said: ↑

This is the thing.

If this article is serious, and a) the female author suggests that forgoing a quality education is what women in principle should do, while b) she writes sentences such as "I believe that every girl should marry every guy that is rich so they never have to work," then c) it should come as no surprise that there are those who wish to pull out their lambast bat.

I'd like to see every girl try to marry every rich guy. I really would. It could be like a contest to see who can get the most. Maybe a reality show?
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well, there is a bright side to this... im not rich... so i shouldnt have to worry about being accosted by this dumbass, or any of her dumbass counterparts...

Baraka_Guru · Feb 2, 2012

SCBronco said: ↑

well, there is a bright side to this... im not rich... so i shouldnt have to worry about being accosted by this dumbass, or any of her dumbass counterparts...
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Me too. It's like we have immunity!

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Some perspective:

You Should Date An Illiterate Girl
JAN. 19, 2011 By CHARLES WARNKE

Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. Engage her with unsentimental trivialities. Use pick-up lines and laugh inwardly. Take her outside when the night overstays its welcome. Ignore the palpable weight of fatigue. Kiss her in the rain under the weak glow of a streetlamp because you’ve seen it in film. Remark at its lack of significance. Take her to your apartment. Dispatch with making love. Fuck her.

Let the anxious contract you’ve unwittingly written evolve slowly and uncomfortably into a relationship. Find shared interests and common ground like sushi, and folk music. Build an impenetrable bastion upon that ground. Make it sacred. Retreat into it every time the air gets stale, or the evenings get long. Talk about nothing of significance. Do little thinking. Let the months pass unnoticed. Ask her to move in. Let her decorate. Get into fights about inconsequential things like how the fucking shower curtain needs to be closed so that it doesn’t fucking collect mold. Let a year pass unnoticed. Begin to notice.

Figure that you should probably get married because you will have wasted a lot of time otherwise. Take her to dinner on the forty-fifth floor at a restaurant far beyond your means. Make sure there is a beautiful view of the city. Sheepishly ask a waiter to bring her a glass of champagne with a modest ring in it. When she notices, propose to her with all of the enthusiasm and sincerity you can muster. Do not be overly concerned if you feel your heart leap through a pane of sheet glass. For that matter, do not be overly concerned if you cannot feel it at all. If there is applause, let it stagnate. If she cries, smile as if you’ve never been happier. If she doesn’t, smile all the same.

Let the years pass unnoticed. Get a career, not a job. Buy a house. Have two striking children. Try to raise them well. Fail, frequently. Lapse into a bored indifference. Lapse into an indifferent sadness. Have a mid-life crisis. Grow old. Wonder at your lack of achievement. Feel sometimes contented, but mostly vacant and ethereal. Feel, during walks, as if you might never return, or as if you might blow away on the wind. Contract a terminal illness. Die, but only after you observe that the girl who didn’t read never made your heart oscillate with any significant passion, that no one will write the story of your lives, and that she will die, too, with only a mild and tempered regret that nothing ever came of her capacity to love.

Do those things, god damnit, because nothing sucks worse than a girl who reads. Do it, I say, because a life in purgatory is better than a life in hell. Do it, because a girl who reads possesses a vocabulary that can describe that amorphous discontent as a life unfulfilled—a vocabulary that parses the innate beauty of the world and makes it an accessible necessity instead of an alien wonder. A girl who reads lays claim to a vocabulary that distinguishes between the specious and soulless rhetoric of someone who cannot love her, and the inarticulate desperation of someone who loves her too much. A vocabulary, god damnit, that makes my vacuous sophistry a cheap trick.

Do it, because a girl who reads understands syntax. Literature has taught her that moments of tenderness come in sporadic but knowable intervals. A girl who reads knows that life is not planar; she knows, and rightly demands, that the ebb comes along with the flow of disappointment. A girl who has read up on her syntax senses the irregular pauses—the hesitation of breath—endemic to a lie. A girl who reads perceives the difference between a parenthetical moment of anger and the entrenched habits of someone whose bitter cynicism will run on, run on well past any point of reason, or purpose, run on far after she has packed a suitcase and said a reluctant goodbye and she has decided that I am an ellipsis and not a period and run on and run on. Syntax that knows the rhythm and cadence of a life well lived.

Date a girl who doesn’t read because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. She can trace out the demarcations of a prologue and the sharp ridges of a climax. She feels them in her skin. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission and expedite a denouement. But of all things, the girl who reads knows most the ineluctable significance of an end. She is comfortable with them. She has bid farewell to a thousand heroes with only a twinge of sadness.

Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so god damned difficult. The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with meaning. She insists that her narratives are rich, her supporting cast colorful, and her typeface bold. You, the girl who reads, make me want to be everything that I am not. But I am weak and I will fail you, because you have dreamed, properly, of someone who is better than I am. You will not accept the life that I told of at the beginning of this piece. You will accept nothing less than passion, and perfection, and a life worthy of being storied. So out with you, girl who reads. Take the next southbound train and take your Hemingway with you. I hate you. I really, really, really hate you.
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http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/dont-date-a-girl-who-reads/

ZombieSquirrel · Feb 2, 2012

What about the girl who reads Twilight?

curiousbear · Feb 2, 2012

ZombieSquirrel said: ↑

What about the girl who reads Twilight?
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She loves Twilight, and I love her for that and in general... I never read, but watched.
I get so mixed up watching Bella, I feel like a boy a moment and feel like a dad another moment... And I am just 36

Flesque · Feb 18, 2012

Well, I'm male, and new to this board, so two strikes against me, but after cruising through this thread, I had to add a voice. I will agree with all the women, and others, who point out how rewarding they find/found their education (does the lack of a dissenting female voice mean that all the dumb bimbos have been scared off?), and that they expect/have found that an education is worth it financially as well. Agreed.

What no one here has pointed out is how much more attractive an intelligent woman is. You can go to the bars or other places to find a cute body that is to your liking. And after a suitable period, you will find that she (or he, if you are an intelligent female looking through this mirror the other way), you will get bored and move on. On the other hand, I find that an intelligent woman can be...seductive, alluring...in other words, an attraction for the long term, not just a sex-toy. You will have things to talk about other than the grocery list. Books and authors to share, art you both enjoy, travel; you can even find pursuits where you are not together with your mate constantly and then return, stronger and wiser.

I also agree with several posters above that point out that our culture vastly over-rates college for the average kid who just wants a job. We need, badly, a strong program of trades education (have you paid for a plumber lately? an electrician? can you find a carpenter who even knows what a hammer is?). There are a lot of kids out there for whom that would be quite sufficient, and I work with a lot of them that would be happy to get even that (they're in retail right now, and it sucks). College, and post-grad work, should be for those with the ability and desire to improve their minds, and perhaps to make a contribution to their chosen field, or to teach others.

Bear Cub · Feb 19, 2012

I just really want to know what paper that originated from, so that I can come on board as EIC. Not because of my literary prowess, keen eye for reporting, or uncanny English abilities, but because there is no way that anyone can write something so retarded and still make the staff without sucking a LOT of dick.

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