Something must have gone terribly wrong. “Girls will sit there with their friends for 15 minutes trying to figure out what punctuation to use in a text message.” What caused such an about-face and made girls fret about the correctness of their grammar just as much as about face make up or clothes? What else but the boys. Not that guys suddenly developed a crush on the Queen’s English. Fact is, however, that on today’s campuses they are frighteningly outnumbered (only 43% of the student body is male). Luckily, sociologists have brought attention to this eerie phenomenon, which most certainly needs to be recognized and addressed, and discovered the painful truth: “men have all the power to control” the dating scene. So, while the guys “don’t have to work that hard,” girls, who are concerned about hooking up with Mr. Right, “feel pressured to do more than they’re comfortable with.” If this means working on their punctuation, hail to the new math on campus.
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