Tiger Mum Shame: American Mum Writes Letter To College Paper Asking Girls To Date Her Son

College for many is a time to start anew... a place where parents won't have the hold they had on you in school, a place where independence reigns.

Except for this unfortunate fella.

A mum of a Princeton College student in the USA decided the best possible thing she could do as a mum would be to write a page and a half letter to the college newspaper, pleading with girls to date her son.

The Daily Princetonian published the letter that was deemed to be "batsh*t crazy" by the Princeton student population.

Addressed to the "daughters I never had", proud Princeton alumna Susan A.Patton wrote the open letter, asking female students to give her son a chance.

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The letter read:

I am the mother of two sons who are both Princetonians. My older son had the good judgment and great fortune to marry a classmate of his, but he could have married anyone.

My younger son is a junior and the universe of women he can marry is limitless. Men regularly marry women who are younger, less intelligent, less educated. It's amazing how forgiving men can be about a woman's lack of erudition, if she is exceptionally pretty.

Smart women can't (shouldn't) marry men who aren't at least their intellectual equal. As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market. Simply put, there is a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are. And I say again - you will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you...

Here is another truth that you know, but nobody is talking about. As freshman women, you have four classes of men to choose from.

Every year, you lose the men in the senior class, and you become older than the class of incoming freshman men. So, by the time you are a senior, you basically have only the men in your own class to choose from, and frankly, they now have four classes of women to choose from.

Maybe you should have been a little nicer to these guys when you were freshmen?

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Oh Christ.

Susan A.Patton has spoken out about the letter she wrote, you can read the interview here.