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minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·12 days agoWhat does that… mean? Is it a jab about college attendance demographics skewing towards women?
minus-square__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·12 days 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-212 days 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-up2·12 days agoThe thought of elementary school girls clowning on boys by pointing out college attendance demographics is precious though.
minus-squareexasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 days 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
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