PoliticalChic
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It seems that anti-feminism is picking up steam! Recently, New York magazine posted an article about 'feminists' [http://nymag.com/news/features/retro-wife-2013-3/index1.html] behaving as traditional, conservative women have done all along: marry, have children, and decide to stay home and take care of their up-bringing.
Now, this:
1. "In a letter published in the Daily Princetonian on Friday, Susan A. Patton, president of the class of 77, offered her Advice for the young women of Princeton.
2. One of the more-quoted lines that immediately began zinging across social media read, Heres what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
3. Patton continued: As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market .you will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you.... I am the mother of two sons who are both Princetonians. My older son had the good judgment and great fortune to marry a classmate of his, but he could have married anyone. My younger son is a junior and the universe of women he can marry is limitless.
4. On Twitter, @DesiderioAArnaz tweeted, Feminism just died at Princeton. Another user named [MENTION=36655]Dylan[/MENTION]matt appended the link with, A stirring call for the genetically gifted to band together and form a master race.... Im mortified, she said of the online comments. But when asked if she would like to clarify or change anything shed said, she replied, Not really.
5. ... I understand that not every woman on earth wants to get married and have kids, that yes you could marry a man who is not your intellectual equal, said Patton. Im just saying, you increase your odds of being happy in your marriage, happy in your life, if you find a husband who is appropriate for you. Which gets harder after you graduate I dont mean to be anti-feminist. This is truly the advice I would give my daughters if I had them.
6. She also revealed a few details that might not reconcile her with feminists, but which do counter the impression given by her letter.... Patton has run her own HR consulting and executive coaching business in NYC for 20 years. She didnt work the first five years after her first son, now class of 2010, was born, but has ever since.
7. ... she isnt married to a Princeton grad. In fact, shes just out of what she calls a horrible divorce, after 27 years of marriage. My husbands academic background was not as luxurious as mine, and that was a source of some stress, said Patton. I think he felt a certain level of resentment.
8. Pattons parents, too, were unenthusiastic about her time in the Ivy League something she previously wrote about in 2006 for the Princeton Alumni Weekly.... My parents were both survivors of concentration camps, and all they wanted for me was to marry. Ideally they wanted me to marry a butcher, because then there would always be meat on the table. The thought of their unmarried daughter leaving home before marriage was a disgrace to them. So I applied to Princeton as an emancipated minor, I paid for it myself, and I went away to college against my parents wishes. And it cost me dearly and still does.
9. ...not everyone disagrees with Pattons letter. Ive overheard plenty of former female classmates express regret for not appreciating what an eligible pool of men we were surrounded with for four years.
10. And as highlighted by a viral video from last year called The Ivy League Hustle, some Princeton women avoid mentioning where they went to school for fear of scaring off suitors. Patton, you can bet, would never do that." An Alumna?s Advice for the Young Women of Princeton: Marry My Son - The Daily Beast
Now, this:
1. "In a letter published in the Daily Princetonian on Friday, Susan A. Patton, president of the class of 77, offered her Advice for the young women of Princeton.
2. One of the more-quoted lines that immediately began zinging across social media read, Heres what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
3. Patton continued: As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market .you will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you.... I am the mother of two sons who are both Princetonians. My older son had the good judgment and great fortune to marry a classmate of his, but he could have married anyone. My younger son is a junior and the universe of women he can marry is limitless.
4. On Twitter, @DesiderioAArnaz tweeted, Feminism just died at Princeton. Another user named [MENTION=36655]Dylan[/MENTION]matt appended the link with, A stirring call for the genetically gifted to band together and form a master race.... Im mortified, she said of the online comments. But when asked if she would like to clarify or change anything shed said, she replied, Not really.
5. ... I understand that not every woman on earth wants to get married and have kids, that yes you could marry a man who is not your intellectual equal, said Patton. Im just saying, you increase your odds of being happy in your marriage, happy in your life, if you find a husband who is appropriate for you. Which gets harder after you graduate I dont mean to be anti-feminist. This is truly the advice I would give my daughters if I had them.
6. She also revealed a few details that might not reconcile her with feminists, but which do counter the impression given by her letter.... Patton has run her own HR consulting and executive coaching business in NYC for 20 years. She didnt work the first five years after her first son, now class of 2010, was born, but has ever since.
7. ... she isnt married to a Princeton grad. In fact, shes just out of what she calls a horrible divorce, after 27 years of marriage. My husbands academic background was not as luxurious as mine, and that was a source of some stress, said Patton. I think he felt a certain level of resentment.
8. Pattons parents, too, were unenthusiastic about her time in the Ivy League something she previously wrote about in 2006 for the Princeton Alumni Weekly.... My parents were both survivors of concentration camps, and all they wanted for me was to marry. Ideally they wanted me to marry a butcher, because then there would always be meat on the table. The thought of their unmarried daughter leaving home before marriage was a disgrace to them. So I applied to Princeton as an emancipated minor, I paid for it myself, and I went away to college against my parents wishes. And it cost me dearly and still does.
9. ...not everyone disagrees with Pattons letter. Ive overheard plenty of former female classmates express regret for not appreciating what an eligible pool of men we were surrounded with for four years.
10. And as highlighted by a viral video from last year called The Ivy League Hustle, some Princeton women avoid mentioning where they went to school for fear of scaring off suitors. Patton, you can bet, would never do that." An Alumna?s Advice for the Young Women of Princeton: Marry My Son - The Daily Beast