Salon.com: Susan Patton wrote a Wall Street Journal opinion column that is so intentionally terrible and goading that I kind of want to pinch its cheeks. It really is that adorable.
“Smarten up, ladies,” the Princeton Mom begins. And by “smarten up,” Patton means land a man while you are still in college, because life gets very, very bad for straight women after they graduate. (Does this advice from Patton sound very familiar? This advice from Patton should sound very familiar.)
“College is the best place to look for your mate,” she explains. “It is an environment teeming with like-minded, age-appropriate single men with whom you already share many things. You will never again have this concentration of exceptional men to choose from.” (By “exceptional men,” I am pretty sure Patton means “19-year-olds who have skimmed the introduction to ‘Discipline & Punish’ and wear pajama pants outside.”)
If you can’t lock something down while in college, at least develop a Rolodex of male alums you can marry later in life, Patton advises. College-educated men — unlike college-educated women — actually get better with age.
“If you spend the first 10 years out of college focused entirely on building your career, when you finally get around to looking for a husband you’ll be in your 30s, competing with women in their 20s,” Patton writes. “That’s not a competition in which you’re likely to fare well.”
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