I've always wanted to get that book by Christina Hoff Sommers
Boys lead the way in special education, dropping out of high school, drug abuse, suicide and crime; more girls enter and graduate college than boys; more girls are valedictorians in high school. Girls are more active in high school and join more clubs and activities. It's an important issue to address today. Who do we have to thank for all of this? The feminists. The book will enlighten you.
Just think: That could have been Teresa Heinz Ketchup on that Parade cover! ARRRGH!!! "Education? Shove it!"
Good for her! Our little guys HAVE gotten a bum rap from the feminists!!
I wonder if she will talk to James Dobson? He has a book Bring up Boys and has been fighting this fight for years. Let boy's be boy's. Femie's want boy's to be girl's lite.
I think what our First Lady is doing is wonderful.
I have a 22 year old son, who's a college student, and a 25 year old married daughter, who is a teacher. So I see this from both sides.
I love the fact that young women are groomed to know that they can be anything they want to be. I tried to instill that in both of my children.
However, young men without a strong parental base may be slipping through the cracks, at the expense of those educators with a feminist agenda. Laura Bush is very astute to realize this, as not many have.
Laura will go down in history as one of the the greatest First Ladies ever. I'm sure she has much more to offer us in the next four years, and I'm looking forward hearing it.
Cool. A mud-wrasslin' contest between Laura, representing the XYs, and Hanoi Jane, representing the XXs.
I might pull up a chair and watch.
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Class and Style. Character matters.
I've always wanted to get that book by Christina Hoff Sommers
I think she has done a good job the past four years, too.
Although most people pretend to be ignorant of the causes, most aren't, really. To have been truly ignorant of why so many boys aren't doing well, one would have seen no television at all during the 1990s, attended no school or job,...
Many of the world's wealthiest men are philanderers who pay billions for feminism--"affirmative action," no-fault divorce, feminist offices in government, business, etc. High divorce rates enlarge and cheapen labor pools with available women. Beyond the general defamations and hatred against men, fatherlessness is one common and related cause of misery and failure in the lives of young men. Spoiled men find it easy to blame other men. Bill O'Reilly's recent scandal after his many public, generalized defamations against fathers is one example.
Here's another good book. In my experience, it's probably the most easy-to-read research report from honest, objective research.
Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths
by Sanford L. Braver, Diane O'Connell
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/087477862X/102-5821256-7690551
Regardless of our having adopted romanticism against marriage about 150 years ago, romanticism is antithetical to Christianity. So is feminism.
Another good piece of advice is to get your children out of public and "mainstream" private education. I've worked a little in both and have heard too much generalized hatred from some teachers (even male teachers, who were not real men, IMO) against boys.
Both of these Free Republic threads today. The difference between us and them is stark and telling.
Bless Laura Bush. The attention needs to be centered on boys from here on in. They are BOYS not GIRLS. I'm glad Mrs. Bush will be working for these youngsters. They have been bashed too long just as the men have been bashed. Boys deserve as much as girls and vice versa. it's the special groups that always try to divide. They succeed too but...the trend is reversing itself. Boys are good people too.
This is good news and welcome news for me, a mother of four, school age sons, grades 2-8. Very good news!
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I agree that boys need attention; however, I'm not sure I agree that they need the same nurturing as girls as this statement implies.
Rather, I'm thinking that boys need a strong hand. They are the future leaders and must be taught responsibility. "Nurturing" in too many cases leads to sissy-boys.