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by Anonymous User on Thursday July 03, @02:40PM EST (#1)
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I don't know about America, but in Britain there used to be a whole range of comics and magazines for boys. These began to disappear in the early 1980's and are completely gone now. They were very popular in my childhood. I wonder if their demise is related to the decline in boys' reading ability.
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There are several reasons to explain why boys perform so poorly in reading :
- discriminations by female teachers who give priority to girls in schools
- the absence of positive and strong male models in schools and at home for boys raised by single mothers ; nevertheless I put the blame more on teachers and feminized schools rather than on single mothers who may hate men but who love their sons for the most part
- the anti-school bloke culture ; for a young man, it is often difficult to work seriously because it is unfortunately viewed as not masculine and strong enough. Girls don't have this problem.
- lastly the fact that the streets do belong to boys and young men at night. In France, there are more and more gangs in the Paris suburbs and girls can't walk out in the streets because it is not a safe place for them. So girls are forced to stay at home, and then they have nothing else to do but their homework, while boys are involved in gangs and are listening to hip-hop music. This is obviously not an appropriate way to achieving scholar success.
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"So girls are forced to stay at home, and then they have nothing else to do but their homework, while boys are involved in gangs and are listening to hip-hop music. This is obviously not an appropriate way to achieving scholar success."
The boys will be forced to the outsides and girls pushed into the "inner party workings", so to speak.
Almost doesn't matter, they teach the girls nothing but propaganda anyways. In my opinion they are just "fatting the turkey" before thanksgiving when it comes to girls.
I believe this is both a men and women's movement.
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by Anonymous User on Friday July 04, @02:44PM EST (#4)
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When I visited Paris I almost got the crap beaten out by me by a gang of guys who had me essentially cornered. I was only saved by 2 police cars coming screaming out of the dark unexpectedly. Oh man I was scared.
Anyway, the point is that the night in Paris doesn't belong to guys, it belongs to guys in gangs. Everybody else is at risk.
(I think the broader theme relates to the whole "take back the night" garbage. You can't take back the night. The night will ALWAYS be risky to everybody. You can only mitigate the risk.)
Garth
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Sometimes the daytime isn't so friendly either.
I believe this is both a men and women's movement.
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