It’s time we talked about male-only universities

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2016-10-09 01:16

Article here. Excerpt:

'Male numbers at universities across the English-speaking world are in decline. An independent commission in the U.K. found in 2013 that young women were a third more likely than their male peers to apply to university. The latest Statistics Canada figures reveal that women aged 25-34 earned 59.1% of university degrees. Moreover, a 2013 report by two economics researchers at MIT found that the decline in male higher education in the United States has been paralleled by a marked decline in male wages, employment, and occupational stature.

For some, this news may not seem disturbing. Men have dominated higher education and elite occupations for a long time—so the thinking goes—and it is women’s time to flourish now.

But as the authors of the MIT study point out, the ramifications of male under-achievement are disastrous not only for men themselves, especially for poor and racial minority men, but for their potential mates and their children, leading to the decline of stable, two-parent households for raising a family.

The reasons for decreased male participation in post-secondary education are undoubtedly complex, but an anti-male atmosphere may play a role. Whether intentionally or not, recent campus initiatives on sexual consent—which place even the most well-intentioned men in the role of potential rapists—and on encouraging men to own their purported “privilege” have led some men to perceive that their needs and feelings are less worthy of concern than those of female students.

It’s not pleasant to sit through classes, especially in the humanities and social sciences, where the male sex is singled out for its role in violence and inequality. And as more schools seek to implement what they call “victim-centered” policies for complaints of sexual misconduct, young men worry with good reason that an unfounded complaint can smash their educational dreams.

Perhaps it’s time to consider male-only post-secondary institutions.'

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"Furthermore, I hope my meaning
Won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself
At the risk of being crude..."

I've said it before and will say it again: A man who today attends a modern university in the west (in particular the US, UK, or Canada), and especially a liberal arts institution (or one predominantly so), is taking an unwarranted risk with his time and money and will be a lot better off going to a men's college rather than a co-ed school. Men's colleges (non-sectarian ones) are far fewer in number than co-ed or women's colleges but also are typically priced less than a co-ed school, and if all one is pursuing is a typical degree that is not part and parcel of a required background to go into such things as engineering or medicine, he need not seek out a name-brand diploma. A degree from just about any place will suffice.

As for dating/h@ving sex... h@ving attended a co-ed school myself I have some observations. First, for some men, it is entirely possible to go through college without ever having dated or had sex with a female classmate. That is because all the same unofficial rules governing mating in humans apply in college as anywhere else. One of these rules is that for some unknown reason, a female attracted to a male will often be so intimidated at the prospect of even approaching the man of her affections that literally years can go by before she screws up the courage, if she ever does, to approach said male and even say hello. I know this from experience. I had a young woman in college take a liking to yours truly from afar and it took her, by her own admission, literally two, maybe three, years in college to get the nerve to just say hello to me. And this young lady was not known for lacking chutzpah in other matters.

Second, most young men's attempts to bed young women for the first time fail. I would estimate, about 95% of the time. If a young man is not persistent in his efforts by repeatedly asking different women for their affections in the sack, his chances of actually getting a girl to be naked and alone with him remain pretty small. In short, most college men don't get that much, even when they attend a co-ed college.

So men in single-sex schools have developed ways to get feminine company. They head into town. Men's college towns attract female residents in the same way military camps used to. Women tend to go where the men are and vice versa. Men on male-only campuses hardly lack opportunities. Their success rate is no greater than that of male co-ed college attendees, but it is there.

There are a couple things men's college attendees however do not have that male co-ed college attendees have: a hostile anti-male scholastic environment, constant risk of being falsely-accused of something, and a patently anti-male faculty and staff working against them at every turn.

I'd say that's worth not seeing girls in class or around campus.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2016-10-09 19:42