A green-and-white pennant on a pencil rises from crumpled paper beside a small magnifying glass.

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Joel Goodson

College women can smell ignorance...like dogshit.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker claims that college women detect ignorance as readily as an unpleasant smell. The crude comparison makes a lack of knowledge seem impossible to hide. Its comic force comes from turning an abstract social embarrassment into something almost physically obvious to everyone close enough to notice.

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