Princetown?

Is it just ME, or do you, too, feel women have been pushed back a few decades this week…

Fox News:  Susan Patton defends "Op Ed" urging female
Princeton students to find a husband before graduating.

Susan A. Patton was among the first of 200 women to attend Princeton; way to go Susan!  The Ivy-Leaguer, a mid 1970s graduate of the prestigious university, recently came out with an op-ed regarding what she seems to feel is an important reason for a woman to aspire to attend Princeton in the first place.

I know; I know!  Of course, we non Ivy grads might assume it were for the purpose of the educational experience and post-grad opportunities that would come one’s way thanks to the logo on the sheepskin.  That seems a fair enough assumption.

Alas, I, not smart enough to attend Princeton (but smart enough to not even apply!) am wrong!

Ms. Patton has outed at least one the reasons to be to find a (“…the best of the best) husband, an intellectual counterpart, a mate worthy of a female Princess-tonian. 

 

What year is this?  Did Ms. Patton sleep through the change of the century and enter a time machine – going backwards?  Was she actually part of a secret experiment in the 70s the results of which are just coming to fruition?

I am not sure what the reason is.  I am sure Ms. Patton is a lovely woman. I am equally sure her elitist, sexist opining has gone far beyond any reasonable loyalty to one’s alma mater.

At a point in history when more opportunity is available to women of diverse educational, cultural, social, and financial backgrounds, Ms. Patton seems to want to limit an intelligent (let’s not even venture to try to define that!) woman’s “desirableness” to her college years. 

Do we really have an expiration date of 21-22 years??  Oh, Susan, say it ‘aint so!!!  During what course at Princeton was this empirical knowledge imparted?  (Note to Princeton: never offer that course again!!)

Many of my high school classmates went off to cities far and wide to attend college.  Many did meet their husbands on campus; that’s been a fact-of-life forever.  I don’t imagine their tuition-paying parents would be happy knowing they made lifelong sacrifices just for better odds in the mate-finding pool.  I am confident they wanted their daughters to be strong, independent, capable, and confident to stand on their own without the need to lean on a male counterpart of equal or greater intelligence. 

Susan’s words give me pause to think she has a whole new version of the big bang theory!!! (Couldn’t resist!)

Maybe it was just one of those moments…Ms. Patton was reminiscing about her days at Princeton – where she did not find her husband, BTW - and suddenly she was speaking in her outside voice!  OOPS.  As always, the cover-up explanation trumps (now, where did HE go to school?) the “I really didn’t mean to suggest that…” moment.  Yet, she went on…

Oh, Susan.  I am happy for you that you have two wonderful Princtoneian sons; happier you do not have daughters.  Should one day you be blessed to have granddaughters, I hope you will be willing to tilt your head in more directions than Princeton, N.J. (US)!  Love can be found anywhere and it doesn’t require an exceptional IQ; just two individuals wanting to love each other in an exceptional way. Consider that, will you, Susan, as perhaps you may be looking for your next husband (?); sorry to hear about your divorce!

 

So, IS it just me, or do you feel Susan has proven that intellectuals can say really stupid things?

Go Tigers!