As for Patton's elitist assumption that finding an "intellectual equal" outside of an Ivy League campus is next to impossible? Ugh. I'm not even going to unpack that one, but it's worth noting that this embarrassing window into how Ivy Leaguers talk to each other should be as cringe-inducing to modern audiences as Patton's take on gender relations is. Some of the dumbest and most intellectually incurious people I've known were in my class at Princeton. And some of the smartest I've known went to state schools, or community colleges, or didn't go to college.
Fundamentally, the woman is correct. The reality is that women like to marry in an upward fashion, and if they already are at the pinnacle of opportunity, their choices are already narrow and will get narrower over time.
Okay, Princeton gals, how’d you like that mother-in-law?
Dollar on the string guys, marry a submissive and be happy.
I thought that in the 18-22 year-old age group, the women are a lot more mature than the men. Certainly, when I was that age, it was not inspiring to sit by guys in the cafeteria who bragged about how ‘faced’ they had been the night before that they had no idea how they got home. One evening, my friends and I had to dive under our table at dinner. Two tables of ‘men’ near us had a food fight and the food was flying over our table. They all ran off after the fight and left the mess for the cafeteria staff to clean up.
Needles to say, I wasn’t serious about marrying one of them. Perhaps the Ivy League women would be better off meeting someone in their summer job or internship, who is already graduated and is more mature.
Replace “intelligence” as the desired trait in the article to “moral character”. Now you’ve got something worth looking for.
My advice to the men of Princeton is if you marry a Princeton gal GET A PRENUP!
Ivy League grads who “missed” the opportunity to marry (too) young at or before age 22 can take advantage of post-graduate Ivy League online dating sites for their first or second (or third) marriage such as:
“The Right Stuff”
http://www.rightstuffdating.com/
“Ivy Connect”
https://www.ivyconnect.com/ivydate
It’s what they intend to do, anyway.
Meanwhile, however, they’d like to waste a little space on the rolls of yet another erstwhile male college that’s gone “modern.”