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people needdddd to wear headphones in public because while on an otherwise very lovely walk in the park today i saw a guy sitting under a tree watching a porn parody of the star wars prequels

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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)

"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.

White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.

Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

Take veterinary school for example:

In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.

By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.

By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%

A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.

But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.

Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.

Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:

“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.

As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.

Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.

A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)

When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.

Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)

School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.

But we don’t seem to want to talk about that."

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How are things going for f1nnster by the way is girl week still happening are they enjoying themselves are the vidya any good is she winning

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I think a truth I could benefit from internalizing better is that the reason procrastination is bad isn't just cos of "practical" stuff such as "if you leave the task too late you might not have enough time to finish it" or whatever (although, that too), it's that having an uncompleted task in the queue just unavoidably takes a non-trivial mental toll, you have to hold that task in your medium-term memory, your thinking about the near future always has to account for the fact that you need to slot this task in somewhere... even if this kind of stuff is being processed mostly unconsciously it's still mental resources being devoted to this thing, mental resources that could be doing something else! Even if it makes literally no practical difference what time of day the thing gets done, the day where you do it at 9am is just automatically much better than the day where you do it at 9pm. It's very seductive to put something off because "it doesn't really matter when this gets done" but I think that's almost always a fake idea.

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i turn my clamification dial to 100% & the capital of the netherlands becomes clamsterdam. i turn it to 200% & it becomes clamsterclam

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i love narcan i love plan b i love cross sex hormones I HATE almond milk it's too thin for most vegan drinks and baking yet too fucknasty flavored for a lot of cooking you'd want something thinner for so what's its deal exactly

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12.08.11 A bleeding Nicholaus Arson of The Hives at Way Out West 2011, Göteborg, Sweden. © Tove Andersen Tormod.

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Ouzel of Cilgwri (2016), mezzotint by Shirley Jones (1934-)

Mezzotint inspired by Shirley Jones' translation of part of the tale of Culhwch and Olwen in The Mabinogion. One part of this story involves a quest to find the whereabouts of the prisoner, Mabon son of Modron, which is achieved by asking a series of five ancient mythical animals about his location. One of these is the bird, the Ouzel (blackbird) of Cilgwri.

Via Wikimedia

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the fact that "bicurious" is an option on feeld is really funny to me

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(cell phone version of the poll)

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Everyone's like "The new Pope isnt welcoming to gay people and has covered up child abuse" like. Fork found in kitchen?

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Imaan Hammam at the 2025 Met Gala "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style"

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the concept of "getting the ick" is so innately seinfeldian that it's crazy that it was coined in the 2020s and not on a season 6 episode of seinfeld where elaine gets the ick from a guy she's dating who makes too big a deal out of celebrating his birthday

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Haggis from Edinburgh Zoo has been announced as the new Pope.