Well, I'd say we have plenty of good examples to choose from. The problem is getting them some "face" time for boys to see.
Might I suggest this as a good starting place for a fine example to ALL young men in this country of a "real" man:
Posted on 12/06/2005 8:36:56 AM PST by xsysmgr
In his welcome Washington Post "Outlook" piece, “Disappearing Act: Where Have the Men Gone? No Place Good,” Michael Gurian reports that colleges and universities across the country are “grappling with the case of the mysteriously vanishing male.” The author of books on the compelling brain research that reveals significant sex differences in learning styles notes that men make up only 43 percent of college students. Gurian laments that we have failed to react to a “significant crisis” that damages the life prospects of millions of young men. He marshals the evidence of boys in trouble and effectively demands attention to their plight.
But he doesn’t explain who is to blame for boys’ alienation from our current schooling regime. So I will. It's radical feminist academics, theorists, and activists.
Gurian explains that boys “dominate the failure statistics in our schools” beginning in elementary school and continuing through high school. Boys lag behind girls in reading ability by 1½ years, a disparity that persists into college. This diminished educational achievement consigns young men to the lowest-level jobs, lands plenty in prison, and takes many out of the long-term marriage pool. He counsels that we abandon the “boys-are-privileged-but-the-girls-are-shortchanged emphasis of the last 20 years.” No kidding. This “emphasis” that has so disadvantaged our boys is the fundamental tenet of feminist educational policy that is subsidized by tens of millions of public dollars in the name of a phony “educational equity.”
Take reading achievement, as one example of what feminism has wrought. With the federal government’s clout and cash, feminists have dictated the rewriting of textbooks to conform to their notions of gender equality. At its 1973 convention, NOW resolved to take “dramatic action” to see that dangerous sex-role stereotypes were erased from textbooks, and within a year they had the Women’s Educational Equity Act to advance their campaign with funding for alternative curricula. The editors, publishers, administrators, bureaucrats, and teachers’ unions that make up the feminized education establishment have eagerly adopted the feminists’ destructive gender agenda.
The result is what NYU psychology professor Paul Vitz calls “Wonder Woman and the Wimp” stories that little boys understandably have little interest in reading. Sandra Stotsky, a reading specialist and research scholar at Northeastern University explains, “Gone are the inspiring biographies of the most important American presidents, inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs. No military valor, no high adventure. On the other hand, stories about adventurous and brave women abound.”
Peggy Orenstein is one of the feminist theorists who welcomes the “gender-fair” regime that has turned our classrooms into reeducation camps for our sons. She has noted approvingly that “perhaps for the first time, the boys are the ones looking through the window” when classrooms are adorned with women’s pictures and bookcases are crammed with women’s biographies.
We parents of boys have meekly allowed gender warriors like Peggy Orenstein to treat our sons like unindicted coconspirators in history’s gender crimes, while parents of girls permit their daughters to be patronized as helpless victims of a phantom, crippling sex bias in America’s schools.
Michael Gurian notes the casualties without identifying who created the battlefield for their campaign of intimidation and indoctrination.
— Kate O’Beirne names more names in her forthcoming book, Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports.
Terrific. While China and India continue to churn out more engineers and scientists, our educational system is busy trying to find politically correct ways to drive members of an entire gender away from a college education.
Fortunately, we live in a time when the Internet makes so much learning available for free that formal education is becoming superfluous, anyway.
Time to launch the 'Malenist' movement!
PS: Er, what would the male counterpart to 'feminist' be?
No, dont gimme those stereotyped-with-negative connotations terms like 'patriachical', or 'male-dominated' etc. please!
The current system of feminizing boys, calling any boys with energy ADD and other forms of political correctness is leading to an age where boys are either wimps or thugs. There is no room left for the man who is strong and virtuous. Where is today's John Wayne, or even Jimmy Stewart. They are viewed as relics of a bygone era. So we are left with cultural icons who have dodged murder charges (P Diddy and Snoop Dog) or "sensitive" men.
Ignore the boys and then when they act like boys, put them on Ritalin. Do you know what they used for chemical castration before the development of Dupro-prevera? Guess.
...read please.
Maybe Al Bundy was right... No MA'AM
National Organization Against Amazonian Masterhood
Masculinests Unite!
Much of the gender difference is in the black community where many more women than men go to college.
There are definitely some situations where women have extra rights and this is bad. We should have equal rights for all citizens. but honestly it is still better to be male in this world both in the U.S. and around the world since there are intangible advantages for being male at every level of society.
Frankly, it is more advantageous to be white in spite of all the legal advantages for being black.
Interesting though how many really successful people from both groups do not favor affirmative action...
"Ignore the boys and then when they act like boys, put them on Ritalin. Do you know what they used for chemical castration before the development of Dupro-prevera? Guess."
Are you saying they used to use Ritalin for chemical castration?
Ritalin is like most other prescription drugs - it has side effects and can do more harm than good if it is wrongly prescribed. But when Ritalin is prescribed for someone who does have ADHD the improvement is worth it.
The number of science and technology fields probably remains relatively constant.
The numbers of sociological, educational, "studies", and bullsh*t majors however have exponentially exploded. Perhaps the actual raw numbers are the same but in relation to the total number of majors to choose from it seems less.
How about "Manly-man"?
"Er, what would the male counterpart to 'feminist' be?"
If you go back far enough, feminism used to be the doctrine of equality between the genders.
These days I would settle for that.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine. Yes!
Mel Gibson?
Bruce Willis?
Tom Selleck?
"According to the New England Journal of Medicine. Yes!"
Very interesting... I have not heard about Ritalin being used for chemical castration. I taught high school for a few years and wound up running a department. I did not notice any correlation between kids on Ritalin and lack of interest with the opposite sex. I wonder if the dose was very high?
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