SEX AND BEER!

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 869, 13 January 1930, Page 9

SEX AND BEER!

MODERN GIRL REPLIES TO MAN’S ATTACK BITTER VARSITY QUARREL | Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. Male undergraduates of Glasgow University roused the ire of the women students by allegations that girls do not possess sufficient charm to marry, and that so far as Glasgow University is concerned “the sweet girl” is the ■world’s greatest myth. The fight arose out of the Students’ Council’s rejection for a proposal that the new -club buildings, costing £IOO,OOO, should be open to women students, and the flame lit by a man writing in the students’ magazine describing tlje women students of Glasgow as follows: “They are ugly iu face, form and mind. They have no humour, initiative or originality, no love of beauty, no taste in dress, no idea of food, uo religious beliefs, no discernment where men are concerned, no aptitude for serious study, no delight in music, no taste for art, and no wish to escape from their destined, damnable profession of school teaching.” The statement, widely reprinted, aroused considerable bitterness. PERSONAL COMPARISONS A woman student in a London University, replies: “If we are ugly in face, form and mind, men are not even conscious they are so. If we lack humour, men have only sex and beer for subjects of conversation. Their budding connoissewrsliip in food springs from snobbery, religious beliefs from the eighties, discernment, where women are concerned, from books, delight in music from savages for the delight in his drum. They do not wish to escape from the destined, dangerous profession as our husbands.” Another man writes in the London “Chronicle” that the original attack under-stated the conditions. Photographs of the first half-dozen girls seen entering Glasgow University any day would show that not one has sufficient charm to marry. As soon as girls go to university they get the impression they are competing with men as intellectual professional equals. This brings out the worst in them. Women are distorting their ideals, and destroying the individuality of every university they enter, and give nothing in return. They are parasites on the great traditions. The average typist beats them for looks. The average waitress give 3 you your bill with more charm than the woman student puts into a half-hour's conversation. The sweet girl graduate is the world's greatest myth.”