One of the things that cracks me up

is how easy it is to troll a woman that has gotten a liberal arts degree, especially if she got it from a woman's college.

If the woman's college is one of the Seven Sisters then it's easier yet. All one has to do is use words like 'sweetie', 'honey' or 'cupcakes' and they completely lose it. It's hilarious. They go off like a skyrocket.

I ran into one woman that thought she was an elite because she had a liberal arts degree from one of the Seven Sisters. Some elite. For Pete's sake, the little girl up the street got an engineering degree and snagged an excellent job upon graduation. Her degree came from a basic coed state run university. She had to suffer through classes with the mean old boys in them. She is far more useful to us that some idiot with a liberal arts degree from a woman's college, seven sister or not.

Actually the perceived advantage of an elite woman's college is that the student body, for the most part is full of advantaged women. An inordinate number of the students there have fairly affluent parents. I suppose that it makes for halfway decent networking. On the other hand, networking through an Ivy League coed school would likely be a lot more effective assuming the woman graduating has a useful degree.

Too many of the liberal arts degrees offered by these schools really leave graduates with no practical education. They create school teachers, social workers and the like, few of which actually make a whole lot.

Truth is, six of the Seven Sisters are still woman's colleges. Vassar went coed in '69.

One of the disadvantages of woman's colleges is that  it tends to provide a very sheltered four years. Most of the student's parents are affluent, it's women only and they tend not to mix with the rest of the world. It provides them with a limited view on life for the most part. One practically never hears of a Mount Holyoke College grad rooming with a mechanic's or plumber's daughter for example. They usually have a clique consisting of students with wealthy backgrounds.

In short the schools create a really limited outlook on things for its graduates. It creates a lot of sheltered women that wind up with unrealistic outlooks.

The days of men only institutions actually ended with WW2 as the bulk of male college students went off to war and the schools had to either accept women or go under for lack of students and an overabundance of empty desks. After the war the schools expanded and stayed coed.

Actually when you think about it the best things the Seven Sisters did waas between about 1865 and 1900. Four of the seven are located in Massachusetts, two in New York and one is in Pennsylvania. These three states suffered terrible casualties in the civil war and left a shortage of men that lasted for decades.

Many women headed west searching for suitable husbands to raise families with. Women from the Seven Sisters that went west at least found the opportunity to become schoolmarms while looking for Mr Right. The ability to teach school kept an awful lot of these women from falling into prostitution, something that happened to a lot of women during that period.

Let's face it, if you worked for Miss Kitty in the Long Branch Saloon there was a lot more to it than pouring Festus and Doc Adams a free cup of coffee. The rooms upstairs were there for a reason. A Seven Sister education did give some of these woman an opportunity to avoid working for Miss Kitty.

Still, in this day and age the schools still provide a certain amount of overprotective sheltering and fill the women with a lofty sense of false dignity. Many of them are never comfortable in the real world. It doesn't take a whole lot to troll these woman. All you have to do is tip over their false sense of dignity and it doesn't take much.

One of these women tried to explain to a certain waitress I used to run into how she was selling out her dignity by letting the guys call her honey and dear. The waitress, who I will call Flo simply asked the little social worker how much she took home on payday. Flo was making almost three times that with a high school diploma and an ability to use her outgoing personality.

It's interesting to note that those truckers that flocked to the diner Flo worked in may have called her honey and dear but never crossed the line and said anything truly insulting to the woman. She simply wouldn't take it and would throw them out if they did. Flo has more ability to deal with life than the overwhelming majority of the Seven Sisters graduates could ever imagine.

Yet there are an awful lot of these women running round that graduated with their heads in the clouds and many of them never do manage to get their feet on the ground.

Sorry, ladies. I have a hard time respecting a spoiled little girl that had daddy send her to a liberal arts woman's college.

On the other hand, I have a lot of respect for the three sisters up the street that got practical educations from a halfway decent state college. 












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