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Originally posted by Taualumna
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.
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You are still missing my point. And actually, my mom was in school then.
