{"id":54010,"date":"2020-01-05T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54010"},"modified":"2022-03-28T23:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T03:40:21","slug":"more-from-severian-about-modern-girls-at-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/05\/more-from-severian-about-modern-girls-at-university\/","title":{"rendered":"More from Severian about modern girls at university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having regaled us with shocking tales of the Basic College Girl (linked <a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/further-adventures-of-the-basic-college-girl\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), Severian now gets down to the not-very-salacious details of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/mating-behaviour-in-the-human-female\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">modern female mating behaviour at US colleges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48489\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/University-College-University-of-Toronto-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48489\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/University-College-University-of-Toronto-Wikimedia-Commons-480x362.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"362\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/University-College-University-of-Toronto-Wikimedia-Commons-480x362.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/University-College-University-of-Toronto-Wikimedia-Commons-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/University-College-University-of-Toronto-Wikimedia-Commons-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/University-College-University-of-Toronto-Wikimedia-Commons-848x640.jpg 848w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/University-College-University-of-Toronto-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">University College, University of Toronto (not one of the post-secondary institution Severian used to teach at).<br \/>Photo by &#8220;SurlyDuff&#8221; via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>When people find out I&#8217;m retired from &#8220;higher&#8221; &#8220;&#8221;education,&#8221;&#8221; if they\u2019re anything but rabid Leftists they usually ask me a series of questions: Why are professors such hypocritical assholes? and Is there really any point to ___ Studies? and Why do they pay the football coach umpteen zillion dollars a year to never finish higher than third in the conference? If the questioner is a man, though, and we&#8217;re out drinking, after a few martinis they always get around to: But what about &#8230; you know &#8230; the <em>girls<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Where to start? Since there&#8217;s no avoiding prurience here let&#8217;s get one thing out of the way up front. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/thelastpsychiatrist.com\/2011\/02\/are_all_drug_reps_hot.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">TLP<\/a>, not me, but it holds for coeds, too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>These people are prone to two errors. A psychological one: fetishization; and a biological one: mistaking for beauty what is merely youth.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taking the second first: I made the same mistake. I came to the ed biz later than most, having had a &#8220;real&#8221; job back in my other life, so when I first got to grad school I was amazed at how hot the girls were. Like everyone else I was a TA for Intro to Studies 101, but unlike everyone else I must&#8217;ve gotten the &#8220;sorority girls only&#8221; section, because every single chick in it was a knockout.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ll cop to being a little slow on the uptake, but I&#8217;m not <em>that<\/em> dumb. So I started looking a little closer \u2014 purely in the interests of science, you understand \u2014 and it wasn&#8217;t long until I realized that yeah, what I thought at first was smokin&#8217; hotness was just youth. Back in the office I&#8217;d been surrounded by women who were equally attractive, but not equally young. A few years in a high-stress job puts a lot of miles on you.<\/p>\n<p>But the other, fetishization element came into it too. Not like <em>that<\/em>, get your minds out of the gutter, let me explain:<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it ever really was, but if &#8220;coed&#8221; was a fetish its days are long past. In a country where the vast majority of people have at least a semester or two of college, not even &#8220;sorority girl&#8221; really moves the needle much. Rather, all the &#8220;fetish&#8221; stuff comes from the other side. After spending oh-god-sooooo-many hours getting harangued by the HR ladies about &#8220;sexual harassment,&#8221; even the most cynical teacher finds himself wondering what he&#8217;d do if some slinky young thing really <em>did<\/em> show up at office hours, close the door, and declare she&#8217;ll do <em>anything<\/em> to pass the class\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Which never happens, of course. I&#8217;ve never even heard of it, and I taught at lots of places, for many years, among male colleagues (and a lot of lesbians) who were desperately horny losers. The reason is twofold. The first, and most obvious, is that even if some girl really <em>is<\/em> that mercenary \/ sociopathic \u2014 and y&#8217;all have me on record, at great length, describing what little sociopaths modern kids are \u2014 there&#8217;s a much simpler alternative available: Straight-up bribery. But notice that&#8217;s the one thing you never even hear suggested, though it&#8217;s the easiest thing in the world. TAs get paid peanuts; I don&#8217;t know how low the bidding could&#8217;ve gone, but having seen the squalor in which lots of my fellow grad students lived, twenty bucks doesn&#8217;t seem unreasonable &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, I&#8217;d bet #MeToo and the rest of it actually result in more, not less, of this behavior. Like I always say, today&#8217;s blue-haired, nose-ringed slam poet is tomorrow&#8217;s <em>obergruppenfuhrer<\/em>, and one of the main reasons I say it is that I&#8217;ve been around a LOT of college people. Shrinking violets who need &#8220;safe spaces&#8221; everywhere very obviously long to knuckle under to power, any power. Goofy losers who suddenly find themselves with a lot of power naturally start carrying on like Heinrich Himmler. Put them together in the closest possible proximity, in a place explicitly designed to shield them from the real world, and, well, you figure it out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having regaled us with shocking tales of the Basic College Girl (linked here), Severian now gets down to the not-very-salacious details of modern female mating behaviour at US colleges: When people find out I&#8217;m retired from &#8220;higher&#8221; &#8220;&#8221;education,&#8221;&#8221; if they\u2019re anything but rabid Leftists they usually ask me a series of questions: Why are professors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,57,13],"tags":[139,1462,255,764,43],"class_list":["post-54010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humour","category-usa","tag-psychology","tag-severian","tag-sexuality","tag-university","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-e38","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54011,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54010\/revisions\/54011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}