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NYTimes hops on divorce-and-boys bandwagon
posted by Adam on Sunday October 26, @11:07AM
from the Well-now dept.
News Matt writes "Well, the NYT has done it again. Jumping on the recent junk-science-based "revelation" that couples with boys stay together more often than those with only female children, they bemoan the difficult place of girls as a result. Read it and barf here. No mention of the male-only draft or much higher injury and suicide rates of males, though. Guess that isn't important to them."

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Sly science (Score:2, Interesting)
by Smoking Drive (f8@tpg.com.au) on Sunday October 26, @06:27PM EST (#1)
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It's noticeable that they try very hard to avoid pinning this alleged bias on mothers. It's always fathers or "society". Yet the great majority of divorces are initiated by the female, and the only concrete example of differential choice is

"... among unmarried women who had ultrasound scans, those carrying boys were slightly more likely to marry the father than those with girls"

Isn't it the mother who gets the results of the ultrasound?

My take on this is there are several reasons why marriages with fewer sons are more likely to break up, and there isn't anything alarming about this.

Spending more on your sons is only fair because daughters get the benefit of female privilege.

--sd.

Those who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Re:Sly science (Score:1)
by khankrumthebulgar on Monday October 27, @02:43PM EST (#2)
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The New York Times has lost a great deal of credibility due to its support of the Black reporter who was engaged in writing fictious stories and his stories were not checked for accuracy. The NYT has a slanted opinion and is misandrist in its outlook. Its editors pander to the Feminazis who hate Men. As the Divorced Father of 5 Children 3 of whom are boys. It was the voice of my youngest daughter crying Daddy that I heard in my mind in the early AM after my Divorce not my sons. My oldest Son punched a whole in the wall and broke his wrist. He was so upset that his Mother Divorced me to marry an employee our Store Manager. It has however turned out for the best. Their Step Father has loved my Children and he and I have a good relationship. We have been able to work out our issues. It haunts me that I have lost nearly 8 years of their lives and live several states away. This is utter Bovine Excrement. Makes me sick the Male Bashing going on at the NYT. It is a rag without much credibility.

Khan Krum The Bulgar
This is a Damned interesting point. (Score:1)
by LSBeene on Monday October 27, @11:32PM EST (#3)
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Folks, I got something that is pretty interesting:
I read the piece on this site yesterday. Today the SAME PIECE is being posted on a feminist site. Now the interesting part is how the two sites differ on their views on THE SAME PIECE. Now, I am not about to say which is right or wrong. And I am going to post a mirror comment on their site to comment about our thoughts: so, lets keep it civil and factual.
            Male Site: I believe the comment that men first have is that women are the ones who often initiate a divorce and that the men here don't care what GENDER their children are, but rather that the marraige ended and they cannot have access to their children. Also, I noted that the fathers who I have seen post on this site have never mentioned a preference on having girls or boys. Now, I cannot speak for everyone, so correct me if I am wrong, but that is what I came away with.
            Female site: What was posted there (the link will be below) was that the article seems to be blaming little girls for divorce. I would think that both sites would find that assertion beyond silly. The women's site makes note that men tend to spend more time with the boys than the girls. Also, the thought was expressed that this shows how society values boy children more than girl children.
          Here are my thoughts on this: I think that fathers DO (sometimes) spend more time with boys. And I think that often mothers often spend more with the girls. I don't think EITHER parent is unloving, or some silly nonsense, but rather that they see a "little me" and are showing true interest in a child. To make this a VERY short post I think this article is very divisive in nature as it seems to cause both fathers, mothers, boys, and girls to be jealous and start negatively analying each other on who gets more. Divorces happen. We can give up statistics and point fingers, but for God's sake let's not start trying to put ANY blame on the children. Is nothing sacred than the CHILD who is watching their whole world get torn up and doesn't know why?! Blame little girls?! I mean, some of the Dad's here should be royally ticked off that anyone would suggest that (no matter WHO initiated the divorce) that your daughter had ANY contributing portion to it.
      I am going to post a mirror post on the feminist site (with small reversals, but pretty much exact). If you want to check it out feel free.
      Guys, this is important, there are some very nice women who post there and, yes, there are some who are ... errr .. less than nice. Just like here. I just think its a chance to see how some person did a divisive study and how the polarized genders were quick to find it was the "others" fault.
      http://www.wehavebrains.com/

I hope in this we can see how the hate-mongers are, once again, more than happy to keep up the gender divisiveness instead of finding solutions to our mutual problems.
Peace
        L. Steven Beene II
Guerilla Gender Warfare is just Hate Speech in polite text
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