College or Daycare? What difference does it make?

[Scot Dutchy]

[PsychoSerenity]

They only let me have wax crayons here.

Ooh but you can melt them into all sorts of colourful mess!

[JimC]

As a form of protest, I intend to fill in an adult colouring book with nothing but a black pencil!

[rachelbean]

I have a couple of those, but my favourite is my Doctor Who one. I enjoy colouring, and find it relaxing. Seems like people just have to hate on everything

[pErvinalia]

Yeah. They can't handle difference.

[laklak]

Viva la difference!

Unless you're TOO different, in that case fuck off.

[Forty Two]

This is just embarrassing.... http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29106/



College students: Just fucking go to class, do your fucking homework, and quit yer bitching!

Instead of wasting time coloring, do your fucking Calculus problems to "de-stress." Oh, wait, that's right, you're in "gender studies" so you identify as a pancake in your "otherkin" group and you're busy navel-gazing about whether your supergendered and whether you're cultural heritage is sufficiently oppressed to allow you to wear dreadlocks.

Destress, my ass. Fucking coloring books. Here's a stuffed animal, too, ya pansies.

I don't know why you let this sort of stuff wind you up so much. Just relax and accept that the world is moving on and you're too old and out of touch to move with it.

Moving on from reason and reality? Sure.

I guess I should be thankful. My daughters are going to have such an easy time when they grow up. The competition is getting really weak.

[laklak]

Agreed. All those precious little snowflakes, sadly melting in a puddle of self-absorbed tears, not exactly what I'd call rigorous competition.

[Forty Two]

This is just embarrassing.... http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29106/



College students: Just fucking go to class, do your fucking homework, and quit yer bitching!

Instead of wasting time coloring, do your fucking Calculus problems to "de-stress." Oh, wait, that's right, you're in "gender studies" so you identify as a pancake in your "otherkin" group and you're busy navel-gazing about whether your supergendered and whether you're cultural heritage is sufficiently oppressed to allow you to wear dreadlocks.

Destress, my ass. Fucking coloring books. Here's a stuffed animal, too, ya pansies.

I don't know why you let this sort of stuff wind you up so much. Just relax and accept that the world is moving on and you're too old and out of touch to move with it.

Yep. It's just the last throes of a conservative who can't handle people being different to him.

LOL - adults coloring with crayons to "destress" from a college curriculum that requires about 4 hours of study per week to ace? Yes, it's conservatives who can't handle "people being different."

I'm going to join them since I can't beat them -- just read the following with a slight lisp and a lilting upward-pitch at the end of each sentence -- "I'm sorrayh! But, pleaahse refer tah may as a non-gendered, non-binaray, otherkin moonbeam dragahn! Mah pronouns are anybody, everyone, many and neither! Now can you provide me mah publicly funded coloring book and crayons! The stress of mah 12 credits of gender studies is just soooo overwhelming! Another student came to class, sat down and said hello without mah consent!"

[Forty Two]

I have noticed the fad for adult colouring books in the last year or two. I think it's rather silly, but it is not a sign that the world is about to end, either...

I'll have you know that the etymology of "silly" arises from Old English and Old Norse words meaning fortuitous, happy and prosperous, and therefore the word privileges the lucky, joyful and wealthiest among us.....very politically incorrect....

[Forty Two]

I have a couple of those, but my favourite is my Doctor Who one. I enjoy colouring, and find it relaxing. Seems like people just have to hate on everything

It's one thing if someone picks up a hobby on their own -- coloring books have been widely available for generations. I buy them for my three year old, sometimes for less than a dollar each. She destresses with them all the time.

The issue in the OP involves a college program for adults attending university. Color away your stress, they say, because, what? The 12 credits the average student takes in college is so difficult? What's so stressful? They hear opinions they don't like? They're over the age of 18 and their girlfriend broke up with them?

Obviously, someone with a clinical condition or other need will be seeking treatment from psychiatric professionals, but the run--of-the-mill college student is not among that group. It just seems rather ridiculous, and appears to be part of an overall coddling of "kids" well into adulthood. Scot Dutchy put it well above when he discussed how at 17 he was backpacking across Europe.

There has been a change in the zeitgeist over the last 40 or so years. I doubt we'd have a Woodstock today, because the 17, 18 and 19 year old attendees wouldn't be allowed out of the house for the weekend without a parent, and if they left on their own the police would become involved.

Some of this sounds like "too much time on one's hands." I mean, maybe make them take 18 credits, like a generation or so ago. Then they'll go to class for six hours a day and do homework for another six, and there won't be enough time to get all whinged out.

[Forty Two]

Agreed. All those precious little snowflakes, sadly melting in a puddle of self-absorbed tears, not exactly what I'd call rigorous competition.

LOL, by the time my girls get to college I'm sure we'll have gotten to "intelligent privilege," and those born with higher mental faculties and/or those whose parents educated them early in life are going to be deemed the beneficiaries of unfair advantages, such that they should have their "privilege" checked in favor of less "fortunate" folks who aren't as bright. After all, the less bright "work just as hard" as the smarter folks - heck, they often have to work harder to master the same material.

[Cunt]

I thought it might be interesting to take a gender studies course, and try to honestly learn and question everything that was taught, but it seems that, even if things went incredibly well, I would come out of it many dollars poorer, and no more employable.

In fact, I have seen candidates passed over - in a SOCIAL WORK environment - because their only education was Gender Studies and it just isn't practical for anything.

If they can't be employed in social work, where the fuck CAN they?

[Svartalf]

I thought it might be interesting to take a gender studies course, and try to honestly learn and question everything that was taught, but it seems that, even if things went incredibly well, I would come out of it many dollars poorer, and no more employable.

In fact, I have seen candidates passed over - in a SOCIAL WORK environment - because their only education was Gender Studies and it just isn't practical for anything.

If they can't be employed in social work, where the fuck CAN they?

basically, gender studies, like race studies and many of the humanities is a self centered academic subject which does no good as a major unless you go up to PhD and go on to teach it in college... well, humanities at least can be taught in lower schools and have thus greater value, but gender/race studies are a toy of pure, ivory tower, academics.

[Forty Two]

I thought it might be interesting to take a gender studies course, and try to honestly learn and question everything that was taught, but it seems that, even if things went incredibly well, I would come out of it many dollars poorer, and no more employable.

In fact, I have seen candidates passed over - in a SOCIAL WORK environment - because their only education was Gender Studies and it just isn't practical for anything.

If they can't be employed in social work, where the fuck CAN they?

An employer can rest assured that a "studies" student will most certainly know how to complain, for one. They will have their complaining skills so honed that no corporate policy will be left unchallenged and un-flyspecked. Managers want such "studies" candidates, because if there is one thing an employer needs is someone to make sure that even more time is spent handwringing over breaks, parties, after-hours get-togethers, and whether some guy interrupted a woman while she was talking or turned the thermostat to the wrong temperature. Managers and business owners love having non-work-related issues dominate the work-day.