Chapter 13
“You’re still lucky you could do a job like that. I didn’t even go to college and now all I could get was a barista job.”
“So? I bet that’s because that’s all you thought you could get. Don’t say it like it’s a bad thing. Anyway, why do you need college?”
“What are you talking about? I don’t have anything I can do, not like…other people. I had bad grades anyway.”
“Grades are a social construct, right?”
“Are you about to give me a gender role lecture?”
“Please, I’m being serious! It’s a social construct. There’s no way it can define a person or measure their true strengths and weaknesses.”
“But that’s what measuring tools are. If you know enough about what you want to measure, you can invent a tool to do it. Grades and school are like that, too.”