The Struggle to be Taken Seriously in the Age of Subtle Sexism
RUSH: Oh, boy, am I glad I found these two things! Also, this. Snerdley came in today and said, "There's this piece that you've got to see on the Daily Beast: 'Why College-Educated Women Can't Find Love.'" I said, "That reminds me, I have to print out a piece," and it's from a college-educated woman, a senior at UNC Chapel Hill. "The Struggle to Be Taken Seriously in the Age of Subtle Sexism." So these are two women in college. One of them is a college graduate. Anyway, it's two women in college.
Either both are seniors or one's a senior and one has graduated. "The Struggle to Be Taken Seriously in the Age of Subtle Sexism," meaning the only thing men do is look at them. They don't take them seriously. (She thinks that she's on to something new there.) And the other one: "Why College-Educated Women Can't Find Love." (interruption) What is so funny? (interruption) Well, she doesn't! Well, they do. This is why I have never feared getting older. I have always relished getting older.
I find something more enjoyable about getting older every year. And the fun part of being older now is to go back and look how people behave when they're 20 versus when I was 20, or 21 versus when I was 21. And how they all think it's never happened before. The things they are enduring are a first. That we can't understand it. That we can't relate to it. And it's worse than it's ever been. It's just fascinating to me. I'd love the opportunity to try to set them straight and explain things.
I think it'd be a lost cause. But, I mean, "The Struggle to Be Taken Seriously in the Age of..."? What do they think modern era feminazi-ism is about? (snorts) Well, the whole point of modern era feminazi-ism is embodied in my Undeniable Truth of Life No. 24: "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society," to pop culture. Bingo! So here we have a female athlete, by the way, a senior at UNC.
"The Struggle to Be Taken Seriously in the Age of Subtle Sexism." It's so hard. I mean, she worries that she doesn't have a "thigh gap," and a thigh gap is required now. Well, that's... (chuckles) It may not have been a thigh gap back in 1970, but it was something. Big bazooms or what have you. It was something. It's not the Onion. Part of me doesn't want to read this because I don't want to embarrass these women.
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RUSH: Oh, boy, am I glad I found these two things! Also, this. Snerdley came in today and said, "There's this piece that you've got to see on the Daily Beast: 'Why College-Educated Women Can't Find Love.'" I said, "That reminds me, I have to print out a piece," and it's from a college-educated woman, a senior at UNC Chapel Hill. "The Struggle to Be Taken Seriously in the Age of Subtle Sexism." So these are two women in college. One of them is a college graduate. Anyway, it's two women in college.
Either both are seniors or one's a senior and one has graduated. "The Struggle to Be Taken Seriously in the Age of Subtle Sexism," meaning the only thing men do is look at them. They don't take them seriously. (She thinks that she's on to something new there.) And the other one: "Why College-Educated Women Can't Find Love." (interruption) What is so funny? (interruption) Well, she doesn't! Well, they do. This is why I have never feared getting older. I have always relished getting older.
I find something more enjoyable about getting older every year. And the fun part of being older now is to go back and look how people behave when they're 20 versus when I was 20, or 21 versus when I was 21. And how they all think it's never happened before. The things they are enduring are a first. That we can't understand it. That we can't relate to it. And it's worse than it's ever been. It's just fascinating to me. I'd love the opportunity to try to set them straight and explain things.
I think it'd be a lost cause. But, I mean, "The Struggle to Be Taken Seriously in the Age of..."? What do they think modern era feminazi-ism is about? (snorts) Well, the whole point of modern era feminazi-ism is embodied in my Undeniable Truth of Life No. 24: "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society," to pop culture. Bingo! So here we have a female athlete, by the way, a senior at UNC.
"The Struggle to Be Taken Seriously in the Age of Subtle Sexism." It's so hard. I mean, she worries that she doesn't have a "thigh gap," and a thigh gap is required now. Well, that's... (chuckles) It may not have been a thigh gap back in 1970, but it was something. Big bazooms or what have you. It was something. It's not the Onion. Part of me doesn't want to read this because I don't want to embarrass these women.
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