The Problem of Males on the Feminized Campus

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'Now the statistical moralists have a problem they are eager not to see: the perception that males are not doing well in the system of education. Allie Grasgreen in Inside Higher Education reviews a book published by the Russell Sage Foundation, certifying that women outpace men in college action in a ratio of 1.4 to 1. Grasgreen delineates the conclusion of the authors (Thomas diPrete and Claudia Buchmann) that there is inadequate gender integration in higher ed and that males are unrealistic about what they need do to become effective men. But there is also a cultural problem here: the now conventional anti-male attitude on campus. I know from my own teaching experience that the pervasiveness of this attitude, launched on the first day of class with a stark rape seminar, causes males, especially of blue-collar origin, to flee a community they quickly come to see as suffused with the gender-studies rebuke of men now built into college life.

A consistent failure of the school system is reflected in its failure to educate males and females equally effectively. If the problem category were race or religion it would be politically intolerable. But boys and men--no problem. Where, for example, is the White House Council on Boys and Men, still non-existent years after the nifty one on girls and women was proudly brandished? Presumably lost somewhere in electoral politics and some dingy acceptance of payback for that vaunted 5000 years of patriarchy. We can do better.'