I think he's in Hannibal MO and is talking about food production factories.

I worked in factories while putting myself thru college. I think I know what you are talking about, but I'm not sure the social dynamics of the situation apply only to girls. I'm thinking in particular of one ceramic insulator factory I worked in. There were hundreds of workers in the factory, a small class of bureacratic managers with no obvious skills other than the authority to order around underlings but only one or possibly two ceramic engineers worked in the factory. So, from a strictly numbers point of view, the average worker is going to see only a minute percentage of jobs at the engineer level. What are the odds that someone could get such a job? The odds look slim from the factory floor. Your wife, who only appears as a god once in a decade at a given factory looks even more like a God, and omnipotently wonderous since most Gods have penises. Think cargo cults.
The workers have never been in a college calculus classroom filled with engineering students. They may have never been on a college campus at all. It's the limits of social class in action.

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