Give me the child at seven and I will show you the man
Long long ago there were some comments about single-sex education and whether it predisposed the subject to unhappiness in love later in life, through ignorance and unrealistic ideas about the opposite sex.
Let there be a poll, suggested Juliet is Bleeding, to answer this question in a methodologically sound and reproducible way. I stepped forward to take this up; it seems fitting. Most of my working day is taken up with thinking about when I'll seeing L next, seeing L and analysing the encounter afterwards. But in the time that remains, I do something that's supposed to increase knowledge a little.
So we have formulated the research question and chosen an appropriate instrument. I have captured a statistician and he sits in a cage in my office, chirping miserably to himself; I feed him only enough data to keep him alive, so that he does not lose his edge, ready to analyse your answers.
If you would be so kind, please respond by commenting. And as qualitative research is monstrously trendy at the moment, if you like, you can give me some narrative as well as answering the questions which follow:
1. Are you:
a) male
b) female
c) Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
2. Are you:
a) heterosexual
b) homosexual
c) bisexual
d) other
3. Were you educated principally:
a) in single sex schools
b) coeducationally
4. Are you:
a) happy in love
b) cunted beyond words
Thank you for your time.
Let me start the fun
1. a
2. a
3. a
4. b
The Swain's narrative: I enjoyed a normal childhood until I was seven. I went to a mixed state infants school where was happy. I had friends, boys and girls; there was even a girlfriend, a pretty American girl whose parents were academics over on a sabbatical. Then I was sent into the world of English private education. My first prep school hit me like a icepick to the head. The uniform was horrid, prickly and conspicuous; but above all I couldn't comprehend a place with no girls. Even at that tender age, it seemed weird. I was bullied horribly and caned for something I didn't do . I was taken away from this school, sent to a child psychiatrist (I pissed on his waiting room carpet), sent to another prep school, then big school...I shall not trouble you with the whole story, it's enough to say that it didn't get any better.
It seems to be the case that while boys become savages in single-sex education, girls thrive. Yes there's bitchiness and cliques, but nevertheless. This surely is why men are produced by this system unable to sustain a normal conversation with women. I think it may even ultimately be why things with L are such a mess.
Let there be a poll, suggested Juliet is Bleeding, to answer this question in a methodologically sound and reproducible way. I stepped forward to take this up; it seems fitting. Most of my working day is taken up with thinking about when I'll seeing L next, seeing L and analysing the encounter afterwards. But in the time that remains, I do something that's supposed to increase knowledge a little.
So we have formulated the research question and chosen an appropriate instrument. I have captured a statistician and he sits in a cage in my office, chirping miserably to himself; I feed him only enough data to keep him alive, so that he does not lose his edge, ready to analyse your answers.
If you would be so kind, please respond by commenting. And as qualitative research is monstrously trendy at the moment, if you like, you can give me some narrative as well as answering the questions which follow:
1. Are you:
a) male
b) female
c) Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
2. Are you:
a) heterosexual
b) homosexual
c) bisexual
d) other
3. Were you educated principally:
a) in single sex schools
b) coeducationally
4. Are you:
a) happy in love
b) cunted beyond words
Thank you for your time.
Let me start the fun
1. a
2. a
3. a
4. b
The Swain's narrative: I enjoyed a normal childhood until I was seven. I went to a mixed state infants school where was happy. I had friends, boys and girls; there was even a girlfriend, a pretty American girl whose parents were academics over on a sabbatical. Then I was sent into the world of English private education. My first prep school hit me like a icepick to the head. The uniform was horrid, prickly and conspicuous; but above all I couldn't comprehend a place with no girls. Even at that tender age, it seemed weird. I was bullied horribly and caned for something I didn't do . I was taken away from this school, sent to a child psychiatrist (I pissed on his waiting room carpet), sent to another prep school, then big school...I shall not trouble you with the whole story, it's enough to say that it didn't get any better.
It seems to be the case that while boys become savages in single-sex education, girls thrive. Yes there's bitchiness and cliques, but nevertheless. This surely is why men are produced by this system unable to sustain a normal conversation with women. I think it may even ultimately be why things with L are such a mess.
posted by Lovelorn Swain | 7:42 pm
1. b
2. a for now
3. b
4. b
I went to a public, co-ed school where I experienced no overt trauma. Yet, I have been horrifically cunted.
B
A
B
B
I've been cunted since I was old enough to date.
1. Are you:
b) female
2. Are you:
a) heterosexual
3. Were you educated principally:
b) coeducationally
4. Are you:
a) happy in love
(..Well I'm in love, but not really happy in it. He's great, I'm cynical.)
It's also much easier to be cunted in coeducational schools. You just get it at a younger age than if you went to a single-sex school.
a (male)
a (heterosexual (& homophobic))
a (single-sex education)
b (massively terminal cuntover)
I think single-sex schooling has it's good points and bad points, however. I can only speak from one POV, of course...
1. Objectification of / respect for women
Both the treatment of women like objects, and also the treatment of women with innate respect. Does that sound contradictory? Perhaps. The former is bad and the latter is good.
2. Severe requirement for sex from age 18+
Owing to severe lack of sex during all of adolescence.
3. Ingrained fear of women
They are more mysterious. Ooo.
4. Preternatural lack of patience with women
Unused to mindless blather. Not trained to implement aural shutdown when a group of women start talking about their nails. This can (/ must be) be learnt later, however.
5. Unwilling to get married until age 40
Missed out on too many mindless flings for this shit.
6. Schoolgirl uniforms? Hell yes.
Nope, not paedophilia, but definitely a fascination with younger looking women and the School Disco night in Hammersmith.
7. Nun's habit? Mmhmm.
This is just me.
8. Better grades at school
Because we weren't more busy screwing. This is a cunt in sheep's clothing.
9. Shallow and Deep
Because we had deep discussions about what tits might feel like, all day every day for seven years.
... etc.
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. b
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