Re: [Phys-l] Afraid of being smart?

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

At 11:04 AM 10/5/2006, you wrote:


> --- Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > She said, "Boys are concerned with pretty girls mostly:
> >   that's their main concern."
> > This was not the response I expected.
>
>
> And girls at the high school where I teach are interested
> in handsome, high status boys.
>
> Did you think that they repealed biology?
>
> On the other hand, stupid, rather than merely average, boys
> and girls rarely get dates of any kind and are, to some
> extent, pitied by the other kids.
>
> Marc "Zeke" Kossover
> The Jewish Community High School of the Bay


There's something glinting dimly from my consciousness here.

If you are offered the choice of something beautiful or something ugly,
 I can suppose that you all will often plump for beautiful.
And if I offer a choice of rich versus impoverished, the same.
Or young and vibrant versus old and withered....

That transcends biology as here specified.
But I have spoken to several women who described themselves
 as adrift without a friend who lasted more than a month or two at school.
    These were not dumb, nor yet ugly people.
I am supposing that some feature of school structures holding thousands
is somehow dehumanizing. But I am merely speculating, as the product
 of a boys-only high school.



Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!