Subj : Re: New to this
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Apr 26 2025 01:47 am

On 24 Apr 2025 at 08:19p, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> boraxman wrote to Nightfox <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  bo> Got to fix JuiceSSH on my Android.  I was saying that University
 pF>  bo> degrees can be a liability, because people learn some strange and
 pF>  bo> extreme political and social view from Uni, that get transferred into
 pF>  bo> the workplace, where they are definately less than welcome.
 pF> 
 pF>  Yeah, but they can unlearn them, too. Uni was a great place for people
 pF>  to become as libral or conservative or as alternative as they wanted to
 pF>  in a safe place to do so. For a couple of years.
 pF> 
 pF>  One of the dramas I saw play out multiple times were committed same-sex
 pF>  relationships between two women in college. Unfortunately, one of them
 pF>  was more confident in their sexuality and their partner was
 pF>  experimenting. As soon as they graduated, got jobs and started
 pF>  associating with people outside of that environment, they chose to date
 pF>  men and forget about "that phase".
 pF> 
 pF>  It happened often enough that there was a term for it - LUG, or Lesbian
 pF>  Until Graduation. Lots of heartache among my friends.
 pF> 
 pF> 

I've known women who went through that, one or two.  One stated that they broke up with a guy, and decided to try women.  Its interesting how that happens, as I would wager most men would NEVER consider dating other men, simply because the last woman they were with didn't quite work out.

I don't really support the idea of "experimenting" at Uni.  You should be finding reality, finding your feet, not going off on tangents that lead nowhere.  When I was at Uni, there were a lot of people peddling a lot of nonsense, the usual suspects marching and protesting about things they didn't understand.  You see them today in the streets, causing a fuss and thinking they know how to fix the world.  They don't.  Sure, most grow out of it, but there is this perpetual layer of silly students posturing and protesting and generally doing their bit to cause chaos.  Every week in my city they march and yell, and when you speak to them, they are utterly clueless about the politics they peddle.

Somehow we came to accept children screaming at our faces as "normal", and even in some cases, elevating them to heroes.

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