There's also careerism. Going to law school as a mid-life career change and being around aspiring female lawyers in their 20s was an interesting experience. They usually fit the "woke white woman" stereotype, and I think a lot of that was displaced resentment at the way their social status-seeking conflicted with their natural instinct…
There's also careerism. Going to law school as a mid-life career change and being around aspiring female lawyers in their 20s was an interesting experience. They usually fit the "woke white woman" stereotype, and I think a lot of that was displaced resentment at the way their social status-seeking conflicted with their natural instincts. They were burning their prime reproductive years trying to make partner instead of being one, so to speak.
Since I was the old guy, I could sort of get away saying sexist and patronizing stuff like that. I'm probably on some blacklist now, but who cares -- at my age, I wasn't on track to be a Judge or Attorney General anyway. Frankly, I think one of the main reasons I got admitted to law school in the first place was just so that there would be somebody in class who could tell the kids "this is not how real life works".
(Also, because otherwise nobody would get the Professors' outdated pop culture references. Once we got into a colloquy about potential 4th Amendment issues in "Sanford and Son", and nobody else in the room had the first clue what we were talking about. Good times...)
The downside is that you'll be in class with a good-looking girl, and you think what a guy thinks when he's around a good-looking girl... and then you realize you're literally old enough to be her father, and then you feel creepy and sad.
My daughter (born 1970) has a lot of girlfriends she has known and kept up with since high school. Quite a few of them were career and party girls, not wanting to get married or have children...for awhile, at least. Fast forward to now: After a few decades of this, these same women are now in their early 50s, alone or unable to find a husband, disillusioned with their "careers", and realizing they wish they had a home, husband and family with children after all. It's mostly too late for them because they have been finding that men in their age group want younger wives. I see regret for their self indulgent choices in many of these women.
There's also careerism. Going to law school as a mid-life career change and being around aspiring female lawyers in their 20s was an interesting experience. They usually fit the "woke white woman" stereotype, and I think a lot of that was displaced resentment at the way their social status-seeking conflicted with their natural instincts. They were burning their prime reproductive years trying to make partner instead of being one, so to speak.
Since I was the old guy, I could sort of get away saying sexist and patronizing stuff like that. I'm probably on some blacklist now, but who cares -- at my age, I wasn't on track to be a Judge or Attorney General anyway. Frankly, I think one of the main reasons I got admitted to law school in the first place was just so that there would be somebody in class who could tell the kids "this is not how real life works".
(Also, because otherwise nobody would get the Professors' outdated pop culture references. Once we got into a colloquy about potential 4th Amendment issues in "Sanford and Son", and nobody else in the room had the first clue what we were talking about. Good times...)
The important thing with attending law school as a mature student is to educate the clueless and to crack 70's jokes.
The downside is that you'll be in class with a good-looking girl, and you think what a guy thinks when he's around a good-looking girl... and then you realize you're literally old enough to be her father, and then you feel creepy and sad.
Maybe that was just me, I dunno.
My daughter (born 1970) has a lot of girlfriends she has known and kept up with since high school. Quite a few of them were career and party girls, not wanting to get married or have children...for awhile, at least. Fast forward to now: After a few decades of this, these same women are now in their early 50s, alone or unable to find a husband, disillusioned with their "careers", and realizing they wish they had a home, husband and family with children after all. It's mostly too late for them because they have been finding that men in their age group want younger wives. I see regret for their self indulgent choices in many of these women.