Responses to Feminist Dismissal of Boy Crisis Printed in Wash Post

	posted by Matt on 01:05 PM April 19th, 2006
	Marc A. writes "Last week, feminists Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Chait Barnett had printed an op ed in the Washington Post dismissing the boy crisis in education because it only affects minority and low income boys. Click "Read more..." for more.

	A number of responses were sent in pointing out how racist and classist these feminists were, and also that they are wrong, because even white boys drop out more than girls within their own race (http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/tables/dt0 4_107.asp), and white women in 2001 received 31% more bachelor degrees than men (p. 9, tables 1-A and 1-B at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005169.pdf). The Washington Post printed the following two letters responding to Rivers and Barnett. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041400912.html Saturday, April 15, 2006; Page A13 As a professional high school counselor in an urban school, I found the April 9 Outlook piece "The Myth of 'The Boy Crisis' " contrary to the reality that I see every day. To say that it's only inner-city and rural boys who are not doing as well as girls is like saying that besides women, breast cancer is not a big problem (men can acquire the disease as well). That may be a suitable perspective from the ivory tower of the article's authors. But for those of us who work in the trenches every day, all populations matter. We are not willing to discount any to serve our own agenda, which the authors clearly have. -- Gus Griffin Suitland ================================================ Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Chait Barnett cite my New Republic article as an example of poor reporting on the boy troubles, which they see primarily as an issue concerning African American boys. They may not be aware that the alarms about boys' academic problems are heard loudest in states such as Vermont and Maine, which lack high minority populations. The state that appears to have the largest gender gap at the university level? Minnesota. Scores of private colleges that rely mostly on white, middle class students grant admission preferences to boys as a way to keep the female-male balance on campus under 60-40. The authors' contention that literacy gaps are not driving the gender imbalances is undermined by the reality that the schools that produce equal outcomes among girls and boys do so by doubling or tripling the amount of time and effort spent on literacy instruction. One such school is Washington's Kipp DC: Key Academy. -- Richard Whitmire McLean"

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At last, our views. (Score:1) by TachyonMale on 04:21 PM April 19th, 2006 EST (#1) All credit to the Washington Post for having the guts to print the other (and true) side of the story. I hope this will help to discredit the writers of the first article.

Re:At last, our views. (Score:1) by khankrumthebulgar on 06:51 PM April 20th, 2006 EST (#2) Brace yourselves this is just the opening salvo over this issue of the Gender Equity Movement. There are alot of Federal Funds flowing the FemNag Whores who are bent on destroying and deconstructing the Masculinity of our Boys. They are doing permanent damage to the brains of Millions of Boys for the crime of Being males. These Women are Criminals. They should be tried for Crimes Against Humanity. There is now evidence of permanent irreversible Brain Damage to the Boys. In this Grand Social Experiment. And what I cannot fathom is the silence of the Mothers of these Boys. How can Women sit by and allow this shit to go on???? How?

Even our Young are opting for an out. (Score:1) by Davidadelong on 06:19 PM April 21st, 2006 EST (#3) I do not find it bizzare that our young Males are dropping out. They have little to strive for in reality. Similar to the slave mentality that plauged past generations before they learned how to continue slavery with paper money and the job market. Our young males face a bleak future, and they know it. Why play the game if by playing you suffer more? Instead of trying to figure out how to encourage them to play along, perhaps we should as the adults change what they face so that they have something of real value to strive for? Just a thought.....

Re:Even our Young are opting for an out. (Score:1) by khankrumthebulgar on 06:33 AM April 24th, 2006 EST (#4) During all the Media bashing of Bush about Military recruitment last year. The Seattle Post Intelligencer had an interesting article. It disappeared online almost immediately. It seems some young Men in the Northwest were interviewed about their lack of motivation regarding Military Service. Their reply was shocking in its candor. They said they had no desire to defend a culture that dispised them!!! Furthermore they stated that they had been demonized from kindergarten through High School and into College. Wow was this shocking to hear from some young Men. The article was immediately pulled from the online edition. The Left could not have the public getting the truth about why there is insufficent motivation for our Young Men. Who are not stupid and see the Children of the Elite absent from the fight to defend our Republic from the Islamo Fascists. It has ominous portends for the future. The Younger guys get it. The US is a Feminist Republic and is hell for Men.

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