Sociologist or cultural professor or whatever she is, Christine B. Whelan, writing in yesterday's New York Post, says studies show that the college-educated fare much better in the romance and marriage stakes department, they are less likely to divorce than those without college degrees and far less likely to have kids out of wedlock than us uneducated yokels (presumably those with degrees never use drugs or watch porn either). The degreed also attract more members of the opposite sex, the Educated Man is more likely to be seen as a good provider (Dr. Laura's apologia for Social Darwinism).
I'm concerned. You see my Mom and Dad have been married for over 50 years now. Dad was a Navy WW2 vet and then drove a truck for almost 50 years, Mom never had a degree, both are now happily retired (or are they?) with full pensions and Social Security. How do I tell them they're on the road to ruin?
Eggheads may be sexy but what happens when they're both lying in bed and the wife hears a strange noise? I know what Charles Bronson would've done, hid behind the door with an axe handle and when the intruder turned the knob whack him in the knees followed by a fist to the groin area. Eggheads might be good providers but that's about it, they probably need Viagra or Cialis after a time too.
ReplyDeleteThis is what passes for conservatism nowadays? Actually I was in a pretty fair mood yesterday all things considered and when I read this article it's like the writer sets out to deliberately agitate all the "losers" out there like me. What about chefs? They don't go to college but to chef schools and zero in on what they really love and btw who cooks the food when the fancy educated people go out to eat?
ReplyDeleteThe so-called experts don't know what the hell they are talking half the time. Don't even listen to them, z-man.
ReplyDeleteIt goes like this, if you get a college degree naturally you are very proud, you talk about its importance to your life and it is a good thing to have should you decide to get one but then your thinking gets distorted as in Ms. Whelan's case. You begin to think that those w/o a degree have no morals, they breed indiscriminately like rabbits (a Margaret Sanger theme if you will), they are not as smart as you, they don't have your political acumen if you're a political science major, and then you make the study say anything you want. It's just a lack of perspective is all, these people get so wrapped up in their own mental universes. I know many other long-term couples, neither spouse having bothered to get a degree.
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