kontextmaschine:

Well, that last post is showing up with huge chunks missing or duplicated or in different order in different views and reblog chains because tumblr can’t handle cross-platform reblogs, so let’s do it alone here.

First off there are too coal mining majors, they’re things like “Mining Technology” and “Mineral Engineering”, you find them in Tech and A&M schools and community colleges in mining areas. Like the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.

Second off, I’m not sure if OP’s point is “Imagine a college for prostitutes, that’s hot” or “Imagine not realizing how many college girls today are experiencing their college years as an intro to sex work already, that’s naive”, I could see it either way.

But like the idea of post-secondary education to make women more appealing semi-mercenary mates… that’s a real thing! That’s finishing/charm school! (Which was about social mobility, landing a higher-ranking man, either in the sense of comfortable bourgeois or literal European nobility)

Not as transparently and been professionalized since then but that’s part of what secretarial/stewardess/nursing school was about at midcentury.

The “Mrs. degree”, college as a place to become a bougie wife. Cornell has a college, “Human Ecology”, that used to be “Home Ec” and still has majors in cooking, sewing, childraising, and interior decoration (plus a pre-law/business track as a backdoor for Long Island boys to get an Ivy degree and become donors)

Like, in the 20th century the mainline Protestant churches tried to deal with the romantic drift of “spouse as soulmate” from “spouse as partner in household as institution” by introducing mandatory classes in their colleges to teach the students how to fuck each other better.