It is no secret that women are outperforming and displacing men in all levels of education excluding a few heavily mathematical field like engineering and physics. We are slowly moving towards a matriarchy where formerly working class men are reduced to a poor, destitute, criminal class. More and more blue collar men sit at home with kids while college educated wife works.
Men are more independent and competitive, women are more cooperative and have better communication skills. Modern America has no use for brave, courageous, independent men; it wants a society of obedient drones. Women serve this purpose better than us Y chromosome relics.
google it up... hilary asked the teachers to stop calling on boys in order to get more girls into STEM programs
that was back around 1994
Modern America has no use for brave, courageous, independent men; it wants a society of obedient drones. Women serve this purpose better than us Y chromosome relics.
Males are the ones who push the bleeding leading edge. Take males out of the question and the advance slows and stops.
Bright young boys are being turned off to school before they get past elementary. My 30 y/o sons, and many of their contemporaries, chose to opt out, go for home schooling, or just take the GED, go to the community college, and get on with it. The ‘typical’ public school has been short-changing boys for a long time now.
Years ago I sat on an advisory board for parents at a science/tech high school. Oh, the hand-wringing because the girl students didn’t take the highest level advanced math/science courses in large enough numbers to suit the quota-oriented! (those girls who did take the courses excelled, and most of those went on to medical school). The other girls have succeeded in law, public policy, business, etc. Not everyone has to be a doctor or engineer but too much emphasis placed on either boys or girls (at the cost of the other) pursuing a certain line of study just seems wrong. Hopefully, this pendulum will swing. Soon.
You got that right.
Plus, why should a young man better himself economically? Used to be, your reward was a wife to keep house, raise your children, and bring you your slippers; and best of all, you were king of your castle.
Not anymore. A young man would have to be a fool to marry these days--society and the laws are against husbands and fathers, and even in cases where a young fellow seems to have everything in place: a nice career, a compliant wife, there is little guarantee his career won't be outsourced or replaced by computerization, leaving him a middle aged relic with all kinds of debts, obligations, liabilities--and a wife who then turns on him.
No future in it.
Better for young men to stand aside, play video games, and loaf through life.