Submission is not for a man, it’s for being a mother to an infant. Every trait women have for the sake of the wellbeing of vulnerable helpless innocents men have taken for themselves because they want more than anything to be crawl back into the womb and be treated as babies
@Foiblaet Standardized tests aren’t the problem. People will try hard on GPA, essays, and extracurriculars. If anything, standardized tests are the only area where you can still compete without selling your childhood as long as you’re smart enough to get a good score without excessive prep
One of the aspects of this current debate that is sad is how unAmerican everything that Vedant describes here is. Vedant had a fundamentally Indian, fundamentally Asian experience in high school. He may have been physically located in Texas, but he was living in Little India if this description is accurate.
This is the Asian mindset--striving, studying, testing, fighting for placement. This is why Korea shuts down the country to have quiet on Test Day. This is why Singaporean students labor from dawn to dusk to get placement in the university. This is the East.
Almost nothing described here is the Western tradition, the American tradition.
The description of high school here is hell to an American mind.
I would never, ever allow my children to have a teenage experience like this. This is not the kind of youth that creates stable, functional adults. This is not the kind of youth that builds a healthy, functional society and healthy, prosperous families over generations.
This is not the kind of youth I want any child to have.
@vedantnair__ , I respect your character, your work ethic, and your commitment to reaching excellence as you understand it.
But try to spend some time outside of your cultural enclave and recognize that you don't have to--you shouldn't have to--live like this. There's a much better pathway.
This is one of the reasons why the reaction of the current cultural conflict is so intense. When you describe your youth, you are not describing the youth that any American parent wants his children to endure.
Saying that this represents "American exceptionalism" or "American meritocracy" is to fundamentally misunderstand the American culture.
That's why the outrage is so intense.
American exceptionalism/culture isn’t making a LinkedIn in middle school and going to Kumon just so you can get into UT
That’s ASIAN and INDIAN worker bee culture. They worship cattle and strive to become corporate cattle
This is exactly the problem with immigrants. They are willing to sell their childhood in exchange for not even an Ivy League but a state school position. They bring their child labor culture to our country and outcompete white kids just to get a middle management position
Much has been said by racists, politicians, and racist politicians (like Bo French) about Indians and UT Austin admissions. I thought I should shed some light so their racism could be slightly more intelligent.
I'm a brown kid. I grew up in Frisco, went to a massive Texas high school, and went to UT.
I would wager that the kids in this picture and I have practically the same background. Like me, they probably went to a massive, pressure-cooker suburban Texas high school, and survived the gauntlet to earn their admissions.
These aren’t foreigners. State law requires 90% of UT's freshman class to be Texas residents. 75% of those in-state seats go to automatic admission on class rank. These are Texans.
Texas, for better or worse, is one of the few meritocratic college admissions schemes in the country for a school of its caliber. The rules are simple. Today, the top 5% of a public school's graduating class is automatically accepted. There is nothing to game. You can’t fake being a competitive rower or have some consultant write your essays for you. There isn’t anything to steal; it’s all there on the table to compete for.
And the competition starts the moment the bell rings for your first period of freshman year. You are ranked in your class every single year, for us, #1 to #450. You knew exactly where you were, exactly how hard you had to compete. My year was even less competitive than it is today. The top 6% made the cut, so that’s an all-out war for ~27 kids to get auto-accepted into UT.
So we worked our butts off. Here's what my life was like, starting in kindergarten.
Every summer, before the school year started, I had to finish the upcoming year's math textbook.
I sweated over getting As, even in elementary school. One funny memory is walking to my parents' room, crying, to report my first-ever 89 on a report card.
I did Kumon, my least favorite thing in the world. I still hate that weird half-smile that is their logo.
I went to math and science competitions, where I always lost, and came home crying again. (Quite the crybaby, wasn't I!)
And everyone else around me worked just as hard. Actually, a lot of the kids worked much harder. I know people who took extra classes (zero period) just to boost their GPA. Who routinely slept 5 hours a night to nail every assignment they had after band practice. Who were distraught when they got a 98 instead of a 100. People who stopped doing things they loved, like sports or arts, because those classes dragged down their GPA.
People put their entire life force into getting into this school.
I wasn't even in the top 10% of my class. The competition was too good. I wasn't disciplined enough to hang with them. I got in as one of the 22.5% of admits who are at-large Texans.
These are American kids who earned their way into this school in the most American way possible. Competition. They were told the rules, they competed, and they got the number. And on Saturday they were in that stadium in burnt orange, screaming their heads off, like every other Texan at DKR or around the country. I can’t feel anything but pride for them. That they get to live the dream that so many of us dreamt growing up!
Kids like this have helped improve UT’s standing on the national stage. They made it out of the pressure cooker and placed well in Finance, Big Tech, and more recently, startups. They meaningfully contribute to the economies of our state and country. You should be proud of them too.
Overall, this seems like a meritocratic (albeit flawed) way for Texans to be admitted to our state’s flagship school. It’s racially blind. But politicians like Bo French are asking for something different. They want the student body to rebalance racially.
Surely they aren’t advocating for affirmative action, are they?
@oregonwoman@CastizoFren@SnydeNotSnarky@r33fbn@canonlawyered It’s an ethical question not an economic one. Crack dealers get heavier sentences than crack addicts. Like are we really going to blame the 11 year old boy for the porn industry rather than the stars and producers?
Real-life Tinder: girls reject the men like they’re clearing their likes.
The men get tired of being the joke, reject every woman right back, and the whole room goes home single and bitter.