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Originally posted by carnation
We have often discussed whether it takes some men until their late twenties or older to not be scared off by women with a string of degrees. It always makes for interesting conversations!
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This is so very true! A lot of men, especially younger men, seem to be intimidated by women who can hold their own intellectually and don't need a man to support them financially.
During my freshman year, I went to a fraternity party at MIT (the fraternity shall remain nameless, but it was one of the "top" houses). One of the brothers was chatting me up, and everything was going great... until he asked me where I went to school. "So, do you go to X or Y?" X and Y are area universities, well-regarded but not MIT or Harvard. When I told him I went to MIT, he ran away so fast he left skid marks!
This fraternity, and a handful of others, flatly refused to mix with any of the MIT sororities. They'd hold mixers with BU sororities or groups at Wellesley, but never MIT. I guess we scared them...