I'm so sick of 20-somethings using the meme, "Society prevented your mother from attending university."

Sam__Toucan · 2025-02-06T13:23:54+00:00

My (boomer) mother went to one of the best regarded private schools in the country. Even then her school was renowned for creating women who went on to have senior roles in business and it was an early pioneer for feminist values.

My mother dropped out of school at 16. By 21 she was married and by 25 she was a stay at home mother. Talking to her recently, she blames society that she never had a career. Apparently her own decisions have nothing to do with it,

BlockBadger · 2025-02-06T11:54:37+00:00

Both my grandmothers went to uni… from working class families and my mother has three degrees… from a very poor background.

alter_furz · 2025-02-06T12:43:23+00:00

"Hilda didn't get to enter university in 1915"

"Hanz didn't get TO LIVE in 1915"

tronaldump0106 · 2025-02-06T15:06:19+00:00

20 somethings don't know anything, their education system was MSNBC

Mister_3177 · 2025-02-06T13:38:31+00:00

If my mom coudn't go to university during that time, how the hell does she have a degree in medicine

Ok_Night_7767 · 2025-02-06T18:11:44+00:00

My mother did not go to university but did graduate high school. Though his sisters were allowed to remain in school, my father was pulled out after grade 8 so he could help support his family. My maternal grandfather was pulled out of school after grade 4 in order to bolster the family's income. Society certainly was biased but not always the way women would have us believe.

BJ_Blitzvix · 2025-02-06T15:29:22+00:00

As a 20-something, I have never heard of this meme. And therefore, have never used it.

jessi387 · 2025-02-06T20:12:09+00:00

lol, ya and in a generation everyone is going to be saying society prevented your father from attending university

FH-7497 · 2025-02-06T21:42:04+00:00

I’ve never even heard of this

Emotional-Self-8387 · 2025-02-06T17:57:30+00:00

A lotta white middle class women use this to say they’re still oppressed somehow. It makes as little sense as men using the Vietnam draft to prove they’re oppressed. Yes it was fucked that both of those happened but you never experienced them and there’s little carryover to the present day

SarcasticallyCandour · 2025-02-07T03:17:28+00:00

I'm surprised the number of male students in still increasing, I would have thought male attendance was declining.

Although I do think men have stopped studying degrees like healthcare, biology, teaching, English lit etc.

I think parents are concerned about boys lagging in school also because of the statistical data showing boys in gangs/organized crime are often high school dropouts. They might be wondering is their son going to be a criminal.

EriknotTaken · 2025-02-07T05:36:53+00:00

Tip: stop usng social media

Tip2: I should listrn to myself

TenuousOgre · 2025-02-07T07:13:18+00:00

Also point out that the average man didn’t,t get the vote until 1790s or so in the U.S. for the rest of history the average man had no more say in how countries were run than the average woman. Feminists have such a distorted view of reality.

Lazy-Fisherman-6881 · 2025-02-07T10:04:12+00:00

My mother and both of my grandmothers graduated from university. My great grandmother studied landscape architecture at Cornell in the 1930s.

Skill issue.

BrunoMadrigas · 2025-02-08T21:50:19+00:00

Society prevented my great grandmother from going to university.

Old family values prevented my grandmother from going to university.

Getting pregnant prevented my mother from going to university.

Poverty prevented me from going to university.

Suspicious-Candle123 · 2025-02-10T17:40:39+00:00

Women didnt want the vote initially, as it entailed the draft. Now they get to vote and still not be drafted.

schtean · 2025-02-06T13:51:12+00:00

I'm not so sure your stats are correct. What exactly are they and where did you get them? There is less gender equity in universities today than there was 100 years ago.

Front_Appointment347 · 2025-02-06T21:18:11+00:00

work harder and you get into uni, most of the men at my school dropped out or did trades

Title	I'm so sick of 20-somethings using the meme, "Society prevented your mother from attending university."
Author	Mode1961
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Date	February 6, 2025 11:44 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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