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Exactly.

Two issues:

1.They were lied to — they were told that their Gender Studies degree would get them a high paying job or at least a decent income.

2. And for all of their smarts, they were too stupid to realize that they were being lied to.

Two issues:
1.They were lied to — they were told that their Gender Studies degree would get them a high paying job or at least a decent income.
2. And for all of their smarts, they were too stupid to realize that they were being lied to.

Issue #3: They are kids who were lied to by charismatic adults. Most kids trust adult educators. After, their high school teachers helped them and looked out for them? Right? These college professors are different and look out for themselves and their loony ideology.

I am excepting my engineering and physical science professors who were great, non ideological and taught me enough to start a career as an engineer. I owe them much!

They were lied to

Nothing new there. When I was in school, shortly after the last ice age, the college told me for years that my engineering degree would confer all sorts of magic upon me. Ridiculously high starting salary, my pick of job offers, companies prostrating themselves at my feet, begging to be blessed by my mere presence.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! After more than a year of working part time retail and working my butt off on the engineering job hunt, I gave up. Went into computers, took a lousy entry level job at a salary of about half of what I was "promised". Of course, things quickly improved as I got experience - but everything that everyone at the university (and HS, via the administration and guidance office) told me was a total lie.

What the heck, I've done fine by IT. But it was all based on my smarts and hard work, and not at all based on anything that the college "provided".