-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger
Amber Estes (left) has submitted an article to The University of Georgia student newspaper entitled “How to find that perfect husband in college.” Estes writes that the four years of college are “four years to find a husband” and provides six easy to follow steps.
Step 2: Spend your free time casually moseying around the law school.
Step 4: On your first date, STAY CLASSY. A man won’t get down on one knee for a woman who is overly willing to get down on both of hers.
Elaine,
I thought this kind of thinking vanished in the 70’s!
Of course, a lady does not have to write such instructions. It’s all known long before you get there. College orientation begins at very early ages in the South. So she was obviously aiming for a degree in humor.
And what’s wrong with both knees. Can be practiced practically anywhere. As long as you don’t get calluses on your knees or elsewhere. The university chaplains daughter bragged to me that she had “made” the whole of the football team. I did not ask her what HER position was.
Are all women so? Only at times. Nature decides, not them. So blame yourself hypocrite.
Elaine M, now that you sent me the rest of that article, I think Ms. Estes is a comic genius, and I hope she doesn’t end up with some bozo from the law school!
Four legs good.
Two legs baaaaad!
–Animal Farm
This was a common thought during my college days in the 70’s. 6 weeks following the start of the semester there were more parking spaces and less women in class. I teach now and it is certainly not the case today.
What I think is funny is the idea (in this technological age) that she thinks the guys (especially those in law school) are not reading her manifesto and strategizing around it from “date one” also. Not to mention her friends she thinks are not as pretty as her, the idea that a man wants a “queen of the pack,” and the implicit warning to the guys that Amber doesn’t care much who she gets as long as she lands a good fish. Warning Guys: Your job and salary would be more important to Amber than your happiness in life; she is looking for a cozy retirement plan by 24, not a lifelong partner.
I agree with Mike in that I wouldn’t expect that to work out. My advice would be to both men and women (and was to my daughter) to wait on marriage and kids until they have finished their education and have two solid years in a job earning money, and both partners should continue to work, independently. I would be leery of a partnership beginning where one person is completely financially dependent on the other.
My other advice to my daughter: Treat your infatuations like unexpected vacations. They can be enormously fun, but eventually you will return to the mundane reality of getting things done in your life, and THAT is really how you will spend most of your life, and that is the environment in which you make your decisions about your life. Not in balloon rides touring the Napa Valley wine country (metaphorically or literally).
Malisha,
The other four are in the linked article. It was just a quick post to get the comments rolling.
Malisha,
“Step 1: Most of you have already have completed step one; you’re here at the University. Not only are we academically prestigious, we also have the finest selection of men the South has to offer. These gentlemen (at least the ones in your dating pool) dress in nothing but the frattiest clothes they can purchase, take hard classes that will inevitably lead to a high salary job and they love their mommas. What else could a girl ask for? Now all you have to do is pick out your perfect prince, and zero in for the kill.”
(NOTE: If she is so academically superior why didn’t she proofread the first sentence of Step 1 and make a correction? Inquiring minds want to know!)
And from the end of the bubblehead’s article:
“This is your chance to live happily every after. Encourage your man to go wherever the money is, and then stay by his side regardless of any circumstance. Pretty soon, you’ll be sipping sweet tea by the pool at the country club while some babysitter watches after Junior and Georgia Ann.
“Remember girls, the time is now to guarantee your future. Keep your eye on the handsome prize, stay focused and go get that MRS degree.”
*****
Oh…my achin’ head!
Since the third tranche of evidence came out in the Zimmerman case, I keep checking the new posts to see if he’s commenting on any of it. I do this especially because two recent posts devoted to evidence in the Zimmerman case were accompanied by the stated opinion that they were good for the defense, when I did not see them the same way at all. So here I am checking in, reading up (because you can’t always tell from the title what the article is about), hoping for some intelligence on the meaning of the last round of interviews released, and I see that some sophomore at U/Georgia recommends not giving blow jobs on the first date. Even to lawyers. Worse yet, we are only given two out of the six steps! Damn! Are we just supposed to GUESS the other FOUR? 🙁
Bron,
Intelligence has nothing to do with it….. Social convience and status is more important to some…… Thank happiness…..
Elaine,
While I agree with you in essence, there are a number of folks that still go for that Mrs…… They are a cultural breed in my opinion….. They want it all just like mamma but only more….. They sell their soles for the apparent keys to the kingdoms stores…… I speak this from personal experience and personal observations…… Some get married for the right rich man….. Some that I know reject this line of thinking….. Some will or cannot marry someone unless they have more money than they do…… It’s a marriage of convince of sort…..
Btw, glad you’re back….. Hope you stay for awhile……:)
Elaine:
I think a guy who would marry her is not much higher on the intellect scale. Never forget that intelligence is a bell curve and she is probably a representative sampling of the left side and the middle.
According to what I just read lawyers make an average of around 125k or so. I mean come on, a computer programmer makes that pretty much right out of school.
This woman should be hanging out outside the engineering and computer science school if she wants money and brains in a future husband. What are they teaching women in college today?
Bron,
I’d say rcampbell got it right.
A woman can enjoy a “traditional” married life without spending her four years in college looking for the perfect husband. I went to college–like my close female friends–to get educated…not to find a man. The same is true of my daughter and her good friends.
Many working women are excellent mothers who have happy, productive children who contribute to society.
Methinks this young woman is part of an idiot minority of college coeds. I certainly hope she is!
rcampbell:
no, it was about having choices. To have a job or not have a job is a woman’s prerogative.
If this woman wants a traditional life then why denigrate her choices. A good mother raises the next generation and from my vantage point an intact family [of any kind] and good parents are a good start to raising happy, productive children who will be contributing members of society.
My sister’s best friend’s father advised her to study in the medical library so she could find a nice doctor to marry. It worked. Later, she married her divorce attorney.
Wasn’t dispelling and rejecting such predatory yet dependent thinking a part of the women’s liberation movement since the 1970’s? Didn’t women fight really hard to become valued as educated people contributing to society and being recognized in the workplace for their strength and independence?
Twenty-five years down the road with children on board comes the realization that he’s been untrue with a bevy of 25 year olds. Then comes the embattled divorce as he is determined to marry his real trophy wife.
Many years ago, but many many years out of college, a college roommate observed that I was the only one of her female friends in college who wasn’t there looking for a husband. Silly me, thinking I was there for an education.
Seems like that is the unwritten code at many universities…… Was fun to read…… She wrote that as a sophomore….. Keep the eye on the prize…..