To all the "over-educated" women reading this:

in #femalelast year

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Outside of a handful of hateful boomers and misogynist dullards... we love and appreciate you.

We appreciate the times you've been our mentors, we appreciate your contributions to the future of humanity, we appreciate your commitment to educating yourselves and others.

We appreciate the times you've been the best boss we've ever had, we appreciate the times you gently (or not so gently) kicked our ass when we were wrong, and we appreciate your efforts and skills while we've created extraordinary things together.

We appreciate those of you who pour your "over-educated" passions into writing (everyone go out and buy Madeline Miller's "Circe" right now!), into the arts, into the sciences, and into dragging humanity out of the dark ages.

We especially appreciate the heroic efforts it has taken to overcome the darker corners of our society where women are not expected to be able think.

To those over-educated women reading this, no matter how you earned the moniker.... you're heroes.

It is a common complaint on the far right (especially among the religious contingent) that too many women are educated.

It is my hypothesis (and I'm not kidding) that the objections of those men who disdain educated women are primarily rooted in the fact that the growing population of educated women makes it increasingly difficult for those bozos to get laid.

"Si hoc legere scis nimium euditionis habes"