The Daily Princetonian recently ran an article from Susan Patton. In this article, she encouraged ivy league women to find husbands while in school. This was, in my reading, because that was where highly educated and upwardly mobile women would find men who belong to their "set."
"Smart women can’t (shouldn’t) marry men who aren’t at least their intellectual equal. As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market. Simply put, there is a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are. And I say again — you will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you."
American students are quick to judge arranged marriages and marriage within caste. It might be interesting to ask students to think honestly and critically about American social divisions and assumptions about who is marriageable. What lines exist? How do ethnicity, race, and class relate to these lines of division? Why?
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2013/03/29/32755/
There are approximately a million responses to the Patton article so critique will not be difficult to find.
good stuff-
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