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"OK, you guys, I ignored that cray-cray Princeton mom Susan Patton when she first made her splash. You know, the lady who advised all Princeton girls to snap up their future husbands during college (freshman year, preferably, because nobody wants to date a wrinkly old 22-year-old senior) or else they&amp;amp;#8217;d basically be doomed to a life with no more eligible men after graduation? Ugh, whatever. I rolled my eyes and assumed I just didn&amp;amp;#8217;t understand the sheer glory of Princeton men, since I went to a lowly state school. Also, I assumed this was too idiotic to bother talking about. I can tell this young woman is a) smart, because GLASSES and b) similarly unimpressed with the Patton theory. But now, she&amp;amp;#8217;s getting personal with me. I mean, she doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t know me or anything, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m taking some personal offense to her new comments. Last week, Patton gave a lecture at Princeton explaining her now infamous letter, and I&amp;#x27;m going to start by acknowledging that I agree with her on exactly one point. She said, &amp;amp;#8220;Educated women should not feel ashamed or uncool or unpopular by saying, yes, I want to be married and have children someday.&amp;amp;#8221; Right, Suze! I agree. There&amp;amp;#8217;s nothing wrong with wanting to be married and have children someday. Let&amp;#x27;s hug it out. Except wait, what&amp;amp;#8217;s that you say? Don&amp;amp;#8217;t be ashamed of wanting to get married, unless you&amp;amp;#8217;re no longer in your 20s and still haven&amp;amp;#8217;t got married, in which case, holy crap, it is time to be super-duper ashamed of yourself? I see. Could you explain that a little further? &amp;amp;#8220;A woman looking for a husband in her 30s gives off total desperation,&amp;amp;#8221; says Patton. Oh. In her words, a woman like me is a &amp;amp;#8220;man repellant.&amp;amp;#8221; Ouch. Is this woman for serious? She went on to blame feminism for &amp;amp;#8220;bullying&amp;amp;#8221; women, but as far as I can tell, the only bully in the story is Susan Patton, who seems hell-bent on letting women know their only value is their youth, that they have a &amp;quot;shelf life&amp;quot; like a freaking jug of milk, that men will actually be repulsed by them as they age, and that they should feel shame if they haven&amp;#x27;t found their partner yet or heck, if they don&amp;#x27;t even want a husband at that or any other stage of their life. I would be hurt if I could just stop feeling sorry for this woman and her sad, sad priorities. To conclude, please allow these women to provide the appropriate responses to a summary of Patton&amp;#x27;s finer points lest you hurt your own eyes doing it yourself. Yeah, if only someone had told me to think MORE about boys in college. Enough of colleges trying to teach young women how to have careers, am I right? That stuff is useless. And, ladies of a certain age, just give up and stop inflicting your stench of desperation on all the people around you. It&amp;#x27;s all over for you now. Chin up, fellow single 30somethings. I&amp;#x27;m about as impressed by Princeton mom&amp;#x27;s ideas about us as I am by her Ivy League education name-dropping as her main validation in life. Which is to say, not at all. Are you as fed up with this mom&amp;#x27;s ideas as I am? Or are you on Susan Patton&amp;#x27;s side? Inspiration for single women that DOESN&amp;#x27;T suck: *Turning 30: On Your 30th Birthday, You Suddenly Become an Old Person, Right? Wrong *The Taylor Swift Dating Attitude You Should Adopt (Trust Me, It Doesn&amp;#x27;t Involve Breakup Songs) *Turning 30? Single? Here&amp;#x27;s Why I&amp;#x27;m Not Worried Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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