kshade comments on Jupiter

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[–] kshade@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

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".

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[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, got it, thank you!

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

What does that... mean? Is it a jab about college attendance demographics skewing towards women?

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[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

Yeah 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.

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[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

The thought of elementary school girls clowning on boys by pointing out college attendance demographics is precious though.

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[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago*

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

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