Posted on 05/07/2013 12:47:29 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Four years ago, psychologist Leonard Sax (MD, PhD) wrote a well-received book titled “Boys Adrift.” The doctor tried to answer the question, why have so many young males fallen into passivity and indifference?
Dr. Sax had heard more and more parents complain that their boys stayed indoors most of the time, spent hours on video games, and in general seemed to lack the confidence and esprit de corps that had characterized boys throughout history.
“Something scary is happening to boys today,” Sax concluded. “From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically.”
The book’s full title is, “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men.” Sax lists the five factors right on the cover: “video games, teaching methods, prescription drugs, environmental toxins, devaluation of masculinity.”
It’s worrisome that he seems to like them all. That might be a clue that he has not solved this mystery. Indeed, let’s consider the possibility that none of these theories is the deep answer we want. Let’s start from scratch and consider the things we know for sure.
First of all, critics have often noted that schools seem organized more for girls than for boys. Most boys do not want to be confined to a desk; they would rather be outside playing and competing. Second, not only are boys kept passively inside, they are forced to deal almost the entire day with reading, writing, and arithmetic, probably not their own first choices.
But these factors are historically common. Boys have always been restless at their desks. They have often stared out the window and daydreamed...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Unfortunately, since most men choose to live their lives in penis dictated servitude not caring about this bias until it affects them directly, cases like this are few and far between.
If the Civil Rights pioneers thought like you, there would have been no Civil Rights Movement.
You completely miss the "center of gravity" of the issue just as the pro-life movement has. You praise inconsequential "victories" as the great mass of society and culture washes around you, entrenching the thing you oppose as a fait accompli.
The center of gravity is the penis dictated servitude that most men have chosen to live under.
the great mass of society and culture
That great mass totally excludes men, right? I mean, all of that sperm that has been donated to sperm banks, all of those times that men screwed their friends' wives that resulted in feeding the divorce courts with fresh meat, all of that money spent on prostitution which could have supported MRAs or prostate cancer research but made abusive pimps rich instead, all of that happened without the knowledge or consent of men, right?
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