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minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 months agoI don’t get it, do you mind explaining?
minus-squarekshade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·edit-22 months agoIt’s a thing kids say to taunt each other, “girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter, to get more stupider”.
minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoAh, got it, thank you!
minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 months agoWhat does that… mean? Is it a jab about college attendance demographics skewing towards women?
minus-square__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoKids don’t know about college demographics. It’s a dumb thing kids say to tease each other. Like 7 year old kids. It just means boys are stupid.
minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoYeah one of the Moody blues someone posted with the girls playing jump rope made it click EDIT oops I meant “comic.” I got distracted by the Moody Blues playing on the radio.
minus-squareWolf@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThe thought of elementary school girls clowning on boys by pointing out college attendance demographics is precious though.
minus-squareexasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agoFrom what I remember, the taunt predates women overtaking men in college completion (which happened in approximately 1995). It’s pretty old at this point. Here’s a newspaper article mentioning it from 1993: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-31-tm-825-story.html
I don’t get it, do you mind explaining?
It’s a thing kids say to taunt each other, “girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter, to get more stupider”.
Ah, got it, thank you!
What does that… mean? Is it a jab about college attendance demographics skewing towards women?
Kids don’t know about college demographics. It’s a dumb thing kids say to tease each other. Like 7 year old kids. It just means boys are stupid.
Yeah one of the
Moody bluessomeone posted with the girls playing jump rope made it clickEDIT oops I meant “comic.” I got distracted by the Moody Blues playing on the radio.
The thought of elementary school girls clowning on boys by pointing out college attendance demographics is precious though.
From what I remember, the taunt predates women overtaking men in college completion (which happened in approximately 1995). It’s pretty old at this point.
Here’s a newspaper article mentioning it from 1993:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-31-tm-825-story.html