Posted on 04/08/2006 3:24:16 PM PDT by palmer
It was the early 1900s, and boys were supposedly in crisis. In monthly magazines, ladies' journals and books, urgent polemics appeared, warning that young men were spending too much time in school with female teachers and that the constant interaction with women was robbing them of their manhood...
Now the cry has been raised again: We're losing our boys. The media have been hyping America's new "boy crisis" in magazine cover stories, a PBS documentary and countless newspaper articles...
The boy crisis we're hearing about is largely a manufactured one, the product of both a backlash against the women's movement and the media's penchant for continuously churning out news about the latest dire threat to the nation...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"..they will find good men, as long as they don't put it off too long."
Bingo.
Written by a woman with two last names. All I needed to know.
Never let common sense and a little fact checking get in the way of the latest crisis management.
I wasn't sure anyone would get my little joke--it was pretty obscure. But if you're used to reading the CFR, you probably do obscure pretty well. :)
And then when their kids marry and the other one has a pc last name, they can have kids named Chait-Barnett-Smith-Jones. Catchy, don't you think?
Caryl Rivers is a professor of journalism at Boston University. Rosalind Chait Barnett is a senior scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.
How cute. A journalism professor and a "senior scientist" in a "Women's Studies Research Center". Now why doesn't that surprise me?
btt
"Are you saying that John Adams and James Madison did not understand deconstructionist anthropology and never took gender studies or Whiteness as a Social Construct? It's a wonder they could go to the bathroom in the morning."
Yea Franklin was so uneducated when he discovered moving charges he mistaken assumed the possitive charges moved. What a retard.
The lefties and the feminists have a real desire to see manhood dead and buried. It'll be interesting to see our society evolve with women being the breadwinners and men devolved to nothing but drones. I just hope there's plenty of beer available while I'm droning.
LOL! I could just see the blank look into their stares at the thought of what their "nation" has become.
"You did what?!?"
They don't dumb down the standard for everyone...
I understand that but that is actuallly another layer to the problem. When you make a thing leass competitive and outright unfair you lower the standard of ALL candidates (ala the police depts and the military) for, among other reasons the fact that you lose a certain type of candidate, ie; some of the most intelligent and intellectually aggressive males.
I wish I could find the article, but a thoracic surgeon writing in the NY Post a few years ago pointed to this problem in medecine. After the dumbing down to get more females in the 1970's The medicine is becoming glutted with mediocre peditricians and OBE/GYN's and slipping in the high tension areas such as brain surgery, thoracic etc.
Since the Roman army engineering has been a neccessary dicipline for officers but not anymore because...you guessed it...it tended to limit the number of females eligible. Kinda scary, actually.
Queer Studies? Film making?
My brain is a dustbin of irrelevant facts, some true, some not :-).
Nature has a way of reasserting itself. A society where men have become emasculated is a society that can be defeated by barbarians. That may be our future unfortunately.
I have seen the authors' names before.
Are they gynocrats?
"She said it would "lead to violence when they grew up" I said if that was the case, then they better get rid of the baby dolls because they could lead to teen pregnancy!"
Great comeback!!
My boys turn everything into a light saber - EVERYTHING!!
If this kind of play predicted future violence, then my older son would have killed us all by now.
He's actually quite a gentle soul despite all the dark sith lords he has eliminated in his lifetime.
"Could it be that we took away their recess? Could it be because we took away their gym class? "
Yes!! Let's take away their recess, and then when they cannot stop fidgeting in their seats - we recommend to their parents they get checked for ADHD and get that ritalin prescription.
"Could it be because there is so much crap on school walls it diverts attention from the teacher? "
It is more important that teachers impress their boss, visiting parents, or that they outdo each other in their quest to be the Martha Stewart of classroom decor and bulletin boards than it is to keep the attention of male students.
"Or that they are forced to read touchy, feely, girly, non-violent stories that are boring, but PC?"
You don't think boys would be interested in Little House on the Prairie?
" Perhaps because text books have so many different types of graphs, multicultural photos, and mini lessons within lessons on their pages that the boys have trouble concentrating on what they are actually supposed to be doing because boys and girls do learn differently?"
Well....a chapter on the pythagorean theorem would be the perfect time to introduce a multicultural photo!
"I was a teacher, I know they learn differently. The think, play, process info, communicate differently than girls, just to mention a few."
Did your union know you felt this way? tsk tsk!
I proudly displayed my republican party affiliation on my union card! :) I was also questioned every day as to whether not I would join the union when I got my job. I was reminded of all the protection they would provide me, etc, etc...
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