Why boys are falling behind and why we have to fix it

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-02-06 01:39

Article here. Excerpt:

'Even addressing the issue of male academic underachievement can result in backlash from people incensed that society would bother caring about the disadvantages of men after spending decades and centuries ignoring the disadvantages of women. I understand that impulse, but as a person who cares deeply about her brothers, father, husband, and the possibility of raising decent men, should the opportunity arise, I have to care. Many others would no doubt feel the same if the problem were addressed with any frequency.

As Christina Hoff Sommers writes in the New York Times, “fairness today requires us to address the serious educational deficits of boys and young men. The rise of women, however long overdue, does not require the fall of men.”
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*No, I’m not dismissing the concerns of gay men and women looking for mates, but the problem of educationally mismatched women and men is particularly problematic for heterosexual women.'

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Men w/ low educational attainment usually equates to men w/ low incomes (there'll always be Bill Gateses here and there but these guys are one in a million-- or several million-- exceptions). For str8 girls, this is a TRAVESTY! It means no fancy expensive dates paid for here in this age of "equality" by the guy, no big houses financed by the man (who then must pay half the value of to the woman on the way out of divorce court), and no claims of alimony since she is the poor non-working spouse who "sacrificed all" so her husband could "advance his career", etc., etc. It's such bullsh*t.

There's no better advice a 20-x YO man can hear today than this: It matters not if you're into something hugely lucrative or the guy who cleans the grease traps at the local burger joint every Friday at 2:00 AM, ***Do Not Get Married***, your chances of "success" are dismal. There's no other way to say it.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-02-06 02:45

Underlying this is exactly the dream world ideological reasoning that needs to be expunged from society's thinking. There was never a time when the disadvantages of women were ignored. In the development of human civilization, men and women were always equally privileged owing to their different natures as human beings.

This kind of reasoning is the product of social constructionists influenced by Derrida and Foucault who tried to engineer society in America in the 60's. They deeply hated the profoundly successful cultural imperialism of the West and sought to alter the social construct through transformative discourse. We are seeing the fruits of their insanity and lies play out today in the generation of cuckolded, feminized, weakened, degenerated American males. End the insanity and teach the real version of history - that for every "disadvantage" faced by women, there was an equal disadvantage faced by men.

Ultimately, this is a price men have to pay, for thinking we could use science and reason to engineer society and conquer nature.

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Submitted by cwondermagic1 on Wed, 2013-02-06 02:59