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  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    19
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    it is unmasculine to be too educated but also "girls can't do maths"

    Nothing cranks my tractor quite as quickly as the idea of some over-educated soyjack complaining about a problem only for the wise redneck sage who Tells It Like It Is(TM) after a hard career of Making the Hard Decisions(TM) to come in and hit the TV with a wrench or turn it to W for Wumbo. It's so thought terminating and can easily and often be unhelpful.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
      hexbear
      16
      7 months ago

      there's also a class aspect to that (social not economic) as those standards don't exist for the upper class. Their masculinity doesn't demand ignorance

        • g_g [they/them]
          hexbear
          12
          7 months ago

          almost certainly not the best example but dennis prager comes to mind for me. he's a manly man that smokes cigars and dresses in suits and what have you but he's also so "educated" that he's "qualified" to be an "educator".