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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
I was referring to the overall theme or genre of the movie, which was supposed to be that women can do anything they want, whether that be going to Yale Law School or getting married and having children, or both.
I am quite sure that my school, a COED school, would also in some ways resemble that, considering that my mom had to wear skirts to class and was not even allowed to enter the buildings wearing pants.
I think you missed my point.
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Your mom wasn't in school in the 1990s and the early 21st century. We had to wear skirts to school to, but it was a uniform. They didn't add pants until 1997. Boarders had to wear skirts or dresses to dinner on weeknights until 1994 or so. But that doesn't mean that the teachers encouraged us to marry. We may have had activities with the boys' schools, but we certainly were expected to do well in school, go to a good university and get a good job. We were high school girls, after all. As for the movie, we all assumed that Joan (Julia Stiles' character) would go to Yale, didn't we? Didn't you think that Katherine looked a little upset at the end? That's what I mean by the "that's nice, dear" comment. It's still there. You'd unlikely get that if you choose to have a career.