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The part about assuming girl is there to get husband is away entirely. A lot of women still do this or are expected to do this. I'm not sure how many of them
by Impossible 9y ago
The part about assuming girl is there to get husband is away entirely.
A lot of women still do this or are expected to do this. I'm not sure how many of them are going to MIT or enrolled in CS, but it's common for women to go to college with the expectation of finding and husband and being a house wife, or working a few years, then having kids and doing that.
- watwut 9y agoWell, ok, you do assume that. Overwhelming majority don't assume that. Traditionalists I know complain about women not wanting to do that anymore.
- Impossible 9y agoIt's not an assumption, or about a majority or minority opinion. I know actual women that feel and act this way. I think my post was intrepreted as something that applies to a majority of women or that I think women should act a certain way. I was just saying that anecdoctally, the practice of going to college to find a husband is not dead.
- watwut 9y agoThe complain in the article was that teachers and other students assume the girls are in MIT not with the goal to learn or work, but that she is there only or primary to find husband. So, unless you assume your classmates are in school just to find husbands and assume all girls are like your friends, the preferences of your friends are irrelevant. I knew people who had trouble to keep up in school, because they came basically for party life and procrastinated too much. I don't assume all guys are like that. Similar thing (through being family oriented and willing to accept negatives of being at home is more noble I guess).