Why Men Are the New College Minority

The Atlantic ^ | August 9, 2017 | Jon Marcus

[riverdawg]

“So where are all the guys? It’s not as if there’s a draft.”

Good question. About the same fraction of males go to college today as was true 30 years ago. What has changed is a large increase in the fraction of females who go to college that hasn’t been matched among males. A common sex ration at most colleges and universities is 60-40 female/male.

[Mears]

“A common sex ration ———”

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Hmm ! :-)

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[riverdawg]

“’A common sex ration ———

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Hmm ! :-)’”

Oops! Ration = ratio!

[combat_boots]

Who’s rationing sex?

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[riverdawg]

“Who’s rationing sex?

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Women, as always, although that may be changing with the changing sex rations, er, ratios!

[combat_boots]

hehe

sex robots: 21st century MREs

[OldMissileer]

sex robots: 21st century MREs

OK. That there was funny!

[fr_freak]

Oh, why did I have to go to college 30 years ago when the ratio was more balanced?

I think you're missing the obvious here: the college age men aren't refraining from college simply because they are unaware of the favorable ratio - they obviously have a darn good reason why they aren't going despite the favorable ratio. Now, let's see if we can think what that reason might be. Well, my first guess is that college now turns women into man-hating left-wing pseudo lesbian nutbags who cry rape if you bump into them in a crowded hallway, after which the school will prosecute you with no evidence other than the girl's hysterical screeching. Oh, and if you escape that fate, you still have to endure hours and hours of teacher lecture which describe how evil you are for being a man, and times ten if you're white, and you get the pleasure of paying thousands of dollars per semester to experience this abuse and insult.

Besides, you don't have to go to one of the re-education camps if you just want to get with the inmates. Just hang around the college bars.

[generally]

Multiple reasons for this.

First of all, the “culture” is pushing the idea that you have to have a college degree. Men have a lot more pressure to get real paying jobs, so if their interests don’t require a college degree, they are less likely to waste the time and the money. Women have the luxury of less societal expectation to earn money, so they can go to college more for “entertainment” or enrichment, rather than necessity. It is still much more accepted for women to be stay at home wives than for men to be stay at home husbands.

Another factor is that a much higher percentage of men in the young adult age group are in prison. That takes them out of the college pool.

This is not to say that women shouldn’t pursue an education or that no one should go to college. But there are a lot of people who go who shouldn’t. It shouldn’t be a 4 year beer party or something to fill your time while you delay being an adult.

I’m not even against people attending college for “enrichment” or to be “well-rounded”. But I object 100% when the taxpayer is subsidizing it.

[generally]

Maybe it’s just because it’s easier to cut one off than to build one from nothing.

[originalbuckeye]

I’m starting to think that men have become so emasculated, they figure ‘why not change to be a woman? They are getting all the attention’.

[Chode]

they can only treat boys like defective girls for so long before the symptoms start to show

[RipSawyer]

Thirty years ago I had a part time preacher on the payroll of my tiny business. He was quite a character to say the least and he said that it was silly to ask what women wanted. According to him women all want, “A man to TELL them what it is that they want!” Maybe he knew something, he had a devoted wife who called him, “Mister W-——s” and was never heard to speak his first name and something like four sons and four daughters who all seemed to love and respect him as if he were John Walton Sr. Most others who knew him seemed to consider him just a nutcase but most of them did not do as well in life as the nutcase.