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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (10 children)
[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I don't get it, do you mind explaining?

[–] kshade@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 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".

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah one of the Moody blues someone posted with the girls playing jump rope made it click

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

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

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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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