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Solid reference. 10/10
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