Higher Education Is A Safeguard Against Divorce—Not A Cause
There are things (and people) that are so memetically reviled that their name precedes them—Miracle Whip, Jeffrey Epstein, high school, Minions—and somewhere, somehow, on that list, we nailed educated women to the proverbial cross. Those sour, loaded words: ‘educated,’ ‘women.’ The tongue is dripping with bitterness almost every time they escape someone’s lips, at least on this side of the internet.
The mental baggage elicited from those politically charged words is so evocative, that the stories nearly write themselves: if only modern women stopped prioritizing their girlboss careers over starting a family, society wouldn’t be in shambles, my hairline wouldn’t be receding, and I’d have me a government-issued trad wife to pick up after me. The only problem with this little catch-all monocausality is that it’s, well, complete misinformation that’s become mythologized through memes and single men with an axe to grind with “modern women” (the problem being, they aren’t getting picked.)