Re: Lake of men on campus may not be negative
- From: greg1199@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 30 Sep 2005 07:41:32 -0700
Nomen Nescio Hal wrote:
> <snip all>
>
> Spot on.
>
> But, as much as we may dislike it, the majority of men go to college to
> find a better job and not for 'intellectual curiosity' or 'personal
> fulfillment'.
(sigh) Ain't it the truth. In _The Myth of Male Power_, Warren Farrell
put it thusly:
"Around junior year of high school, boys begin to repress
their interest in foreign languages, literature, art history,
sociology, and anthropology because they know an art history
major will make less than an engineer. Partially as a result
of his different spending expectation (the possibility he
might have to support a woman but cannot expect a woman
to support him), more than 85 percent of students who take
engineering as a college major are men; more than 80 percent
of the art history majors are women."
I agree with you that men go to college so they can earn more money,
but this too should change.
What happens will all the extra money that men generate when they work
high-paying jobs they hate?
- Their extra money gets taxed, and the money used against them.
- They die early of stress related illness
- They usually end up supporting a materialistic wife and _her_ kids,
- They buy alot of sophisticated trash that they don't need.
Of course, some men really do want this, and that's fine, but for the
man who feels pushed into it, I say he should study what he wants, and
work a job he likes. If he wants to study English Lit and Exercise
Science, and go on to be a personal trainer, he should do exactly that,
and not become a mechanical engineer because he wants a bigger nest to
attract females.
It is true that women will expect support from him, and may pass him
over in favor of a rich man, but this is because there are so many
other rich men. What if there weren't so many? Women tend to look at
men the way executives look at job applicants - they'll pick from the
pool of labor they have. She can expect all she wants, but her choice
depends on who shows up at the gate.
Regular men can find love anyway, if they want it. I'd bet you 10 to 1
that your 45-year-old postman is married. The officer who stopped you
for speeding is probably married. The guy at the water plant who runs
chlorine measurments is probably married. The wanted-dead-or-alive
posters of so-called "deadbeat dads" almost always feature men in
blue-collar lines of work.
But I'm going on. Bottom line: You're right, but it should change.
Men should do as they like, and not as women like.
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